JAW, and the shark.

JawTech is one person, JAW, and has been since the domain was registered in 2002. The shark in the logo was there from the start, and it was never subtle: this is a site about getting your teeth into things.

The kitchen came first. JAW left high school at fifteen for a dishwasher's apron and a chef's apprenticeship, was running the line as head chef of a small bistro by eighteen, earned his chef's papers at night school around twenty, and spent the next ten years running four more restaurants. That is where the working habits come from: a hundred small things done exactly right, in the right order, under pressure, every single service.

The computers were there the whole time. BASIC on a VIC-20, then a Commodore 64, then an Amiga 500, then PCs built from parts because nothing off the shelf was quite right. After the restaurants, JAW went back to school for computer programming and turned the lifelong habit into the second career: twenty-plus years in IT, from writing code to building, imaging and keeping alive whole fleets of Windows machines and the networks behind them.

Now, the fun part. Semi-retired, JAW runs JawTech full time and at his own pace, which is the right speed for building things properly. The projects on this site are what that looks like: a launcher for local AI models, a retirement planner that does the real math, three games, a 433 MHz fan remote taken apart and put back together, and the Windows deployment work, offered now as Jawtech Deploy.

What's cooking now

• llama-launcher, because running local AI models should not require memorising forty flags.
• RetBud, a free Canadian retirement planner built after being unable to find one that did the real month-by-month math.
• Three games, Spellpatch, RPG Adventure and Class Clown Simulator, built with Godot, Blender and a home-grown art pipeline.
• AC Infinity → Home Assistant, a reverse-engineered 433 MHz fan remote on an ESP32, and the rest of the hardware tinkering on GitHub.
• Jawtech Deploy, custom Windows 11 images on a USB key: twenty years of doing it for other people's fleets, now offered properly.

How things get made here

Everything is built and tested on real hardware at home, in Canada, with a strong preference for software that runs on your own machine and keeps your data to itself. Where a project needs an account, it is because the alternative was worse, and it will always work with a plain email address.

Get in touch

For the deployment service, use the quote form. For everything else, jawtech123@gmail.com.