SYS — 01Live
FieldCompass
A privacy-first mobile tool that helps people navigate Denver homeless services. A 4-step wizard matches users to 15 verified resources — no account and no personal data stored.
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Web systems · AI · Search
Boulder / Denver, CO
Systems that work in the real world.
I'm William Lodge — one builder, the whole pipeline. Websites, apps, servers, AI workflows and search infrastructure, designed and operated end to end. No handoffs, no black boxes.
01/ Selected systems
Proof through production.
Real systems, live in the real world — public-interest tools, platforms and automation, built and operated end to end.
SYS — 02Live
BestModel
Casting and model management platform — talent discovery, casting projects, bookings, schedules and portfolio workflows in one system.
↗SYS — 03Concept
EventCrewOS
Scheduling, onboarding, time clock, crew profiles and qualifications — a staffing workflow system for event labor and production crews.
↗SYS — 04Live
Williams Compass
My nonprofit — practical help, community resources and technology built from lived experience with homelessness. Home of Field Compass and all of my public-interest resource work.
↗02/ Operating principles
Clarity creates momentum.
P—01Find the real problem, not the assumed one.
P—02Build something useful, not something impressive.
P—03Put it in the real world, not a demo environment.
P—04See what actually breaks.
P—05Improve it, then repeat.
03/ Capabilities
One builder. Full range.
C/01
Web systems
Sites and application-style systems in PHP or JavaScript — framework or none, whatever the project actually needs.
C/02
AI-assisted workflows
AI speeds up research and drafting. Tests, review and the final call stay human.
C/03
Search infrastructure
Technical SEO as engineering — crawling, indexing, structured data, canonicalization, GEO.
C/04
Automation
Crawlers, scheduled jobs, monitoring — with human approval steps so they run unattended safely.
C/05
Public-interest tech
Free resource platforms for people who need them — because the gap is often just a bad website.
C/06
Full pipeline ownership
Design → build → deploy → operate. One person accountable for the whole system.
04/ Now
Currently active — Oct 2026
BuildingFieldCompass systems — expanding verified resource coverage
TestingAI workflow integration across production projects
OperatingProduction web infrastructure — uptime, monitoring, backups
ExperimentingSearch, GEO and automation pipelines
“Accuracy is a trust problem, not a content problem.”
— Operating note · public-interest work
05/ The next move
Let's build something real.
Have something interesting to build? A system, a platform, a workflow — if it needs to work in the real world, start a conversation.