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

At a Glance

  • Live AI products with paying users — not demos: Hush Hollow, Barrhaven Bugle.
  • A local business getting about half its work from organic Google search — 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 — 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 — and every one is live, so you can check for yourself.

Consumer AI Product

Hush Hollow

Personalized bedtime stories for children — 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 — operated end-to-end by an automated pipeline.
Visit Hush Hollow →
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 — 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 — proof that a multi-agent business cell works outside the lab.
Read the Bugle →
⭐ 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 — the case study behind my Hyperlocal SEO/AEO service.
See the Site →
Niche Authority Platform

An Airing of Grievances

An interactive guide to the Canadian Armed Forces grievance process — 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 →
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 — 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 — the longest-serving agent system in the portfolio.
See It Live →
Legal Tech Tool

CanLII Boolean Search Tool

An advanced Boolean search interface for Canada's largest legal database — 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 →

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