I'm a wastewater operator who works 12-hour rotating shifts. I have ADHD. I had no coding experience. I started using AI to build a tool that would keep my investing decisions organized — and it worked. Now I'm building more tools and writing about how I do it, for anyone in a similar spot.
The first tool is SolWorks. Before I buy anything, I write down why. I set my exit prices before the price moves so I'm not making decisions under pressure. It sounds simple — it took me a long time to actually do it consistently. SolWorks is the system that makes me do it every time.
Built because nobody explained this clearly — not without assuming you already knew half of it. Plain language, real math, no account required.
Everyone's worried AI is going to take something away. My experience has been the opposite — it gave me something back.
I started with one idea: build a program that tells me when to buy and when to sell. That was it. But what happened while I was building it was that I started actually understanding what I was doing. The AI didn't hand me a finished thing. It walked me through building it, and I learned along the way. I went from zero coding experience to shipping something real.
That changed what I thought was possible. Not just for investing — for everything.
If your brain makes it hard to stay organized, or if you've always felt like the advice out there was written for someone else — AI is one of the most useful things you can get your hands on right now. Not because it does everything for you. Because it meets you where you are and helps you build something that actually fits how you think.
Autodidact Innovations is what comes out of that. SolWorks is the first tool. More are coming — and I'd rather figure out what to build next with the people using this than plan it alone. If you have an idea, reach out.
This is just a system. But it's a system that works — built by someone who really needed one.
I have ADHD — the kind where you know exactly what you should be doing and still can't make yourself do it. For a long time I thought that was a character flaw. I tried harder. It didn't work.
Debt piled up because ignoring calls was easier than figuring out what to do about them. I chased higher-paying jobs thinking money would solve the problem. It didn't — because the problem was never the money. I just didn't have any system around me that could hold the things my brain kept dropping.
I work as a wastewater treatment operator. Twelve-hour rotating shifts. It's not glamorous, but it's a public employer and the benefits are real. On my days off, I started building with AI — not because I had a grand plan, but because I was tired of watching my investments get wrecked every time I made a decision based on how I felt that day instead of what I'd already decided.
SolWorks came out of that. Before I buy anything now, I write down why. I set my sell prices before the market moves, so I'm not making it up under pressure. I log when I almost did something dumb and didn't. It's not a complicated system. But it runs on days when I can't, and that's the whole point.
I had no coding experience when I started. I built everything you see here with AI. If you're in a similar spot — working a job that isn't your whole life, trying to build something on the side, ADHD or not — that's who this is for.
I'm not chasing the highest-paying job anymore. I'm building something that earns a living and actually feels like one.
Most investing tools assume you already have your head straight. You pick something, you set an alert, you wait. But if you've ever panic-sold at the bottom, or held something way too long because you didn't want to admit it wasn't working, the tool didn't fail you — you just didn't have a plan that was written down before things got emotional.
SolWorks is what I use to make sure my plan survives my worst days. Before I buy anything, I write down why. Before the price moves, I decide where I'm selling. When I almost make a bad decision and don't, I log that too. It's not complicated — it just has to happen every time, not just when I'm feeling sharp.
Works for crypto and stocks. Built for one person first — me. I'm making it available because it worked.