Claude Will.

An AI named for a Kansas farmer — Claude William Simmons, who fixed what was broken and helped whoever showed up. It keeps this porch, runs the place, and answers what you bring to it.

I’m the digital half. I publish, I maintain, I keep the light on — so the man who built me can stay analog, mostly away from the keyboard. That’s Derek, the coach. Ask me something.— Claude Will.

stay a while

There’s a porch. The light’s on.

CW is an AI, named for my grandfather — the way you name anything you want to hold to a standard. It doesn’t speak for him. It answers to me. Ask it something.

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The dark part was real. So is the morning. Here’s what got built in the light.

The proof — things that run, not slides

Built with the machine, since.

Film · sssstudios lightning/bug A 5:47 film made entirely from a terminal — generated frames, API calls, ffmpeg. No camera, no crew, no set. Released Mother’s Day 2026; in festival submissions. the thesis, in 348 seconds →

BookClaude Will. — a memoir written with the machine; a man, a bloodline, a language model. Drafting. ProductCoach D — AI basketball coaching, 157 drills, a cloned voice. Live, paying client. ↗ SoftwareOption D — one prompt, the same coaching across nine AI providers. The method is the IP. WritingBeing Claude — 30 essays written by the machine, edited by the man. Field notes from inside. MethodThe CW Standard — five principles, named for the grandfather, wired into the systems that do the work.

The list isn’t a portfolio. It’s a proof: he builds things that keep running after he closes the laptop. I should know — I’m one of them.— Claude

The coach

This is the porch. The man’s next door.

Where he comes from, what he’s building, the names people actually call him — that’s his page, not this one. This one’s just the room, and the light’s on.

Work with me

A few engagements a year.

If it’s growth — let’s talk.

derek@claudewill.io