Thomas Grimm

Builds The workshop

Things I’ve built.

Away from the bench and the mic, I build software, mostly AI tools that run on my own machines. Atlas came first. A lot of what I learned building it went into the ones that followed.

  1. 01 Atlas A personal AI mentor council. Paused
  2. 02 Maximus An AI content studio for Anomalist’s clients. Retired
  3. 03 Delta A daily read on what’s new in AI. Running
  4. 04 Podcast-buddy Every episode of The Days Grimm, searchable. Running

The short version

Now
AA Jeweler A large jewelry company
Since 2020
Co-host The Days Grimm, with Brian Day
Since 2026
Co-founder, brand & customers Anomalist
2026
Builder AI tools, websites and Colonial Wars
  1. 2020

    The Days Grimm’s first episode.

  2. April 2026

    Anomalist is founded. Atlas, Maximus and Delta (then called Argus) get started.

  3. July 2026

    Podcast-buddy goes live.

  4. October 2026

    Maximus is retired and Atlas is paused. Delta and Podcast-buddy keep running.

Fig. 01 The council

Paused April – October 2026

Atlas

A personal AI mentor council.

I wanted advice drawn from real ideas, not generic chatbot answers. Atlas was a council of mentor voices built on a large library of notes about discipline, business and philosophy. I could ask it anything in a chat and get an answer that showed where each idea came from.

  • Chat on Telegram, with sources for every answer
  • A morning briefing every day at 6 AM
  • Kept track of my goals between conversations
  • Wrote journal prompts and weekly digests

Built with

  • Python
  • Hermes Agent
  • Qdrant
  • SQLite
  • Ollama
  • Telegram

Delta and Podcast-buddy both grew out of its design.

Fig. 02 The daily pipeline

Retired April – October 2026

Maximus on OpenClaw

An AI content studio for Anomalist’s clients.

Maximus wrote social posts for the studio’s clients. Every morning a team of AI agents worked from each client’s brand voice to draft the day’s posts, and a critic pass checked and refined every draft before a person saw it. Clients reviewed, edited or rejected posts in their own portal, and the system was built to learn from those choices.

  • Daily drafts for each client, in their own brand voice
  • Draft, critique, refine and review before anything reached a person
  • A client portal to review, edit and publish posts
  • Research on each client’s competitors, market and customers

Built with

  • OpenClaw
  • Python
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • D1
  • Next.js
Fig. 03 Many sources, one brief

Running Since April 2026

Delta

A daily read on what’s new in AI.

Delta keeps my co-founder and me up to date on what’s new in AI. It follows the researchers and labs doing the work, reads what they publish and turns it into a short brief in plain English. It’s an internal tool, just for the two of us.

  • Checks its sources every three hours and writes a brief
  • Transcribes new episodes of AI podcasts
  • Answers questions in chat, citing where each answer came from
  • Suggests ideas worth writing about

Built with

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Qdrant
  • Whisper
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Telegram
Fig. 04 Ask, then jump to the moment

Running Since July 2026

Podcast-buddy

Every episode of The Days Grimm, searchable.

A companion app for the podcast. It has transcribed the whole back catalog, so I can ask what a guest said about something and jump straight to that moment in the episode. It also takes care of a lot of the busywork after we record.

  • Answers with a link to the exact minute in the episode
  • Drafts titles, descriptions, chapters and social posts
  • Finds moments worth clipping and cuts vertical clips
  • Tells Brian’s voice from mine, so transcripts show who’s talking

Built with

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Qdrant
  • Whisper
  • Local AI models
  • ffmpeg

Also built

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