Modern tools for a classic hobby.
Alongside the advisory practice, I design, build, and operate software for the philatelic world — largely pro bono. The goal is simple: open the hobby to newcomers through search and discovery, and give serious collectors and show organizers the modern tools they've been missing. It's also where I keep my hands on the systems I advise others about.
PhilaLens
LiveAn AI-powered philatelic knowledge platform. Decades of journals and reference literature — the publications societies have produced for generations — turned into a knowledge base you can actually search. Ask a question in plain language and get answers drawn from across the literature. Built for collectors, exhibitors, and researchers, and for the national societies that steward these archives.
Visit philalens.ai →Offered as a platform for national societies and serious collectors. For more information, or to bring your own archive in, get in touch.
PhilaShow
In developmentA platform for running a stamp show end to end — exhibit applications, registration, frame layout, judging, awards, and certificates — with results flowing straight to the show's public website. In active development; the first show, WESTPEX, goes live soon.
Offered to show organizers. For more information, or to bring it to your show, get in touch. philashow.org — coming soon
HueGauge
A free desktop app for collectors and exhibit judges. HueGauge measures perforations on all four sides and identifies stamp colors from a single scan — the painstaking measurements that authentication and grading require — with native builds for macOS and Windows. Downloads will land right here when the first release is ready.
Also in the works.
Websites for several national philatelic organizations are in development. I'll showcase them here as they go live.