I am waiting to be sentenced following a federal trial that ended in a conviction on a single count. I’m not going to explain that in this post, and I’m not going to litigate it in public while the matter is unresolved.
What I can say is that, over time, I intend to explain more—carefully and responsibly—when the process allows it. This site will eventually hold those details.
I’m learning how to live responsibly inside uncertainty—continuing the work I’m accountable for, while trusting God with outcomes I can’t control.
The case relates to a business I owned years ago and that no longer exists. It has no connection to my current work or to the companies I’m building today. Even so, it has had real effects. Many people search my name before deciding whether to work with me. Some opportunities quietly disappear. Others don’t. A number of people have chosen to continue working with me anyway, not because of explanations, but because of trust built over time and because I do what I say I will do. I’m aware of that tension every day.
Most of my energy right now is spent preparing for sentencing in practical ways—legally, personally, and operationally. That includes contingency planning for my family and for the businesses I’m responsible for.
At the same time, life hasn’t paused.
I’m running SOLUENCY. We do web hosting and application development, but over the past year we’ve made a deliberate shift. We’ve stopped taking on many types of client projects so we can focus on building one thing well: VITAL, an AI system designed to handle calls, emails, live chat, and social messages continuously.
We started building VITAL (Virtual Intelligent Total Automation Layer) in December of last year. Progress has been slower than I wanted. Paying client work, operational friction, and the mental load of everything else kept pulling attention away. Eventually, we made a decision internally to accept short-term constraint in order to regain focus. We’re onboarding early test users now, and we expect to open it up more broadly when it’s ready. When that happens, I’ll write about the launch as it unfolds, not as a retrospective.
Parallel to all of this, my wife and I have been feeling called toward land. Toward stewardship. Toward building something regenerative with livestock, a food forest, and systems that can sustain themselves before they scale. Chickens, pigs, cattle, sheep, fish. Work that unfolds slowly and doesn’t care about urgency.
The legal situation has made purchasing land impossible for now, and it puts future ownership at risk as well. That has been difficult to accept. Not because the vision disappears, but because the timeline does.
Recently, after attending the Florida Pioneer Festival, we felt prompted to take a first step anyway. The sense wasn’t that everything would be revealed at once, but that only the next step would be. We decided to explore leasing land instead of buying it—offering to steward property for absentee landowners in exchange for covering their taxes and helping them qualify for agricultural exemptions.
We went to the county property records. We started with thousands of parcels and slowly narrowed them down to about a hundred that could realistically work. We wrote personal letters and sent them out.
That was over a month ago. No one has responded.
I don’t know yet what that means. For now, we’re continuing to plan where we are—learning rotational grazing systems, mobile infrastructure, prototyping gardens and food forest ideas in our small yard, budgets, making lists, and thinking through how a biodiverse system could eventually feed itself without relying on outside inputs. There is long work AFTER acquiring land. Animals take time. Trees take years. There is no way to rush it honestly.
Part of the vision is to feed our own family, donate a first portion to people in need locally, and then support the operation through a small, capped food delivery service. Nothing about that is fast, and none of it works without patience.
Somewhere alongside all of this is Kingdom Business Builders. I started it last year after being personally impacted by the justice system. The goal is to help others with similar experiences find work or build businesses of their own. Structurally, it’s a difficult thing to start. It needs community to attract members, and members to fund the work. For now, we’ve chosen to focus on building the community itself—Bible studies, relationships, a directory—without worrying about revenue. That work has been slower than I hoped, largely because of everything else competing for attention. I trust that it will have its time.
And then there is my family.
My wife and I have two young daughters. Most days include teaching letters and numbers, swimming, parks, and ordinary routines. We want them to grow up understanding honest work, patience, and responsibility. We want them close to land someday, close to reality, and as insulated as possible from systems that extract without giving back.
There are days when the weight of all of this is heavy. The only reason I’m able to keep moving forward—planning, building, showing up—is because I’m trusting God with outcomes I can’t control. Without that, it would be easy to disengage. Trust doesn’t remove uncertainty, but it keeps it from becoming paralyzing.
This site exists to document this season as it unfolds. Not to defend, not to persuade, and not to resolve everything at once. Some stories will remain untold for now. Others will be written as they become possible.
This is simply where I am.