From 25M views to systems that run the business.
I'm Zachary Lewis — a builder based in Detroit. I build software that runs without me.
For years, storytelling was the front door. I built a video production business in Detroit and grew an audience of 100K+ followers and 25M+ views, while quietly building the websites, tools, and automations my clients actually ran on. Video taught me the thing most engineers never have to learn: nobody owes you their attention. If the first ten seconds don't earn it, the rest doesn't exist. That turns out to be true of software too.
In 2024 I turned all of it toward agent systems. Since then I've shipped an agent platform that handles the day-to-day across my own companies, a trading workspace where members bring their own broker, a laundry marketplace running in Detroit, a self-enriching map of the city's small businesses, and a support platform for families of people who are incarcerated.
That last one taught me the most. I'd built a health platform that worked and that nobody used. Rather than start over, I sat in weekly support group meetings with a Detroit reentry organization and listened. Two things came up again and again — people needed help writing letters, and they needed help writing resumes. So I built both.
The useful thing is almost never the thing you guessed from your desk.
Here's what all of it adds up to. Most people talk about AI; very few make it do the work. The gap isn't the models — it's the unglamorous engineering around them. Knowing what a system costs before it runs. Keeping one customer's data away from another's. Being able to prove, afterward, whether the thing actually worked. I build that part.
So if you're a founder or a small team buried in repetitive work — the inbox, the follow-ups, the busywork that quietly eats your week — that's what I take off your plate. Not a deck, not a demo that falls apart when you click the wrong thing. Software you can open in a browser and watch do the job.
If that sounds like what you need, let's build something. If you'd rather just see how I think, the long-form write-ups go deep on what each system does and what was hard about it — and the free tools are yours, no signup.