Portfolio | Live AI Products & Agentic Systems - Jay Tarzwell, Ottawa

At a Glance

  • Live AI products with paying users โ€” not demos: Hush Hollow, Barrhaven Bugle.
  • A local business getting about half its work from organic Google search โ€” the hyperlocal SEO/GEO/AEO case study.
  • Agent pipelines that publish daily: news briefings, weekly columns, niche guides.
  • Every system here is built with the methods I sell โ€” check any of them, they're live.

Live Systems, Real Users

This is the work: AI products and agentic systems that run daily, serve real people, and in several cases make real money. Every one was built with the same methods I bring to client work โ€” and every one is live, so you can check for yourself.

Consumer AI Product

Hush Hollow

Personalized bedtime stories for children โ€” written by an AI story engine, read aloud in the parent's own cloned voice, and delivered to the family's inbox every night. A complete consumer subscription business run by agents.

What's automated:

  • Nightly story generation, quality-gated before anything ships
  • Parent voice cloning and text-to-speech rendering
  • Automated nightly email delivery across time zones
  • Subscription tiers, payments, and voice-capture onboarding
The result: A live product with paying subscribers on all four tiers โ€” operated end-to-end by an automated pipeline.
Visit Hush Hollow โ†’
Multi-Agent News Operation

Barrhaven Bugle

A hyperlocal news outlet for Ottawa's south end, run by a six-agent AI newsroom: sourcing, writing, editing, publishing, audience growth, and sponsorship โ€” each a specialized agent with its own job and its own schedule.

What's automated:

  • Daily story sourcing from local feeds and community signals
  • Drafting and editorial passes with human approval gates on publication
  • Substack + web publishing on a fixed cadence
  • Growth, sales, and ops agents reporting to a coordinating layer
The result: A real publication with a real audience, publishing on schedule since launch โ€” proof that a multi-agent business cell works outside the lab.
Read the Bugle โ†’
โญ Featured Case Study Hyperlocal SEO / GEO / AEO

Ottawa Handiman

A one-person accessibility-focused handyman business whose website does all the selling. Built with neighbourhood-level pages, full schema markup, and answer-engine-optimized copy so both Google and AI assistants recommend it.

What's automated:

  • Neighbourhood pages for Barrhaven, Kanata, Orleans, Nepean searches
  • Schema.org markup for services, service areas, and reviews
  • AEO copy that answers customers' actual questions
  • Machine-readable signals (llms.txt) so AI assistants can cite the business
The result: about half the business's work comes straight from organic Google search, with zero advertising spend โ€” the case study behind my Hyperlocal SEO/AEO service.
See the Site โ†’
Niche Authority Platform

An Airing of Grievances

An interactive guide to the Canadian Armed Forces grievance process โ€” five years of subject-matter expertise structured into a resource that owns its niche and reaches exactly the audience that needs it.

What's automated:

  • Interactive process walkthroughs built from real case analysis
  • Structured content and schema for discoverability
  • Companion to the published book of the same name
The result: A definitive niche resource: when this audience searches, this is what they find.
Explore the Guide โ†’
Automated Content Pipeline

The AI News Engine (this site)

The machinery behind this site's AI News page and morning briefing: an agent pipeline that fetches 350+ articles a day from dozens of feeds, deduplicates and clusters them by story, ranks by source count, and publishes a top-10 briefing โ€” daily, hands-free.

What's automated:

  • Automated fetch from 18+ feeds, every day
  • Story clustering and outlet-count ranking
  • Morning briefing generation and delivery
  • The Saturday "AI Failure of the Week" column: researched, drafted, illustrated, and published by agents
The result: Runs every single day without intervention โ€” the longest-serving agent system in the portfolio.
See It Live โ†’
Legal Tech Tool

CanLII Boolean Search Tool

An advanced Boolean search interface for Canada's largest legal database โ€” a focused build showing what a scoped AI-assisted tool looks like: one problem, one clean solution.

What's automated:

  • Visual Boolean query builder with real-time syntax validation
  • Smart suggestions for legal terms
  • Direct CanLII integration
The result: Cuts legal research query time dramatically by eliminating syntax errors on complex searches.
Explore the Tool โ†’

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