Brayden Watkins

01 · Full-Stack Developer

BraydenWatkins.

I ship full-stack systems that run real businesses: leads answered, payments collected, follow-up automated. Live products you can open below.

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02Selected Work

Shipped. Live.
In use.

Each one replaced a spreadsheet, an inbox, or a manual chase. Four are live, one is on its way. Open them.

The Bridal Content Co.

Live

Took a wedding-content business off spreadsheets and email and onto one system that runs the whole operation. Every couple moves from inquiry to booked to paid on its own, the owner is alerted the second a lead lands, and no payment gets chased and no review gets forgotten.

Next.jsSupabaseStripeResendWeb PushVercel
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AI Website Audit Tool

Live

Tells any business in 20 seconds why their site isn't converting and what to fix. Free, full report by email. (Scores eight quality dimensions against PageSpeed, with LLM-written fix recommendations.)

Next.jsTypeScriptPageSpeed APILLM pipelineVercel
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Telegram Support Agent

Live

Answers a business's repeat customer questions on its own and hands off to a human the moment it isn't sure, so nobody gets a wrong answer. (Knowledge-base grounded, self-monitoring escalation, daily digest.)

Node.jsTelegramLLM pipelinePM2
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Lead Pipeline

Live

Turns hours of manual prospecting into a ranked call list: up to 500 business records per run, deduplicated, scored 1-10 with reasoning, and sorted so the team only works the leads worth the time. (Apify scraping, Claude scoring, CSV/JSON export.)

Node.jsApifyClaude API
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ProfitPilot

In Development

Shows Shopify merchants which orders actually make money, so they stop guessing and cut the products and ad spend that lose. (Per-order profit across 8 expense dimensions, 6 ad platforms, dollar-impact suggestions.)

RemixSupabaseStripeClaude API
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03How I work

I own the outcome.

A client hands me a problem, not a spec. I take it from a blank repo to a live domain that does the job: design, front end, database, auth, payments, emails, deploy. No handoffs, no gaps.

Weeks, not quarters.

I architect the system, then ship complete products in the time most shops spend scoping. I own the quality and the result, and I verify it works in production by hand.

It actually runs.

The flagship runs a real client's business every day: real auth, real Stripe money, real bookings. Three you can open right now: the wedding business, the audit tool, the ProfitPilot site. The Telegram agent and lead pipeline run privately for clients; each page carries a demo that mirrors production.

04Experience

Independent

Full-Stack Developer

January 2026 · Present

  • Took a wedding business from manual tracking to fully automated booking and payments, so the owner stopped chasing leads and deposits by hand (live, in daily use since launch)
  • Ship complete products end to end: React/Next.js front ends, Postgres/Supabase back ends, auth, payments, and the automations that tie them together
  • Architect the system and own the data model, security, and deployment
  • Implement REST APIs, webhooks, Stripe billing, and data pipelines on PostgreSQL and Supabase
  • Deploy and operate on Vercel, Cloudflare, and Oracle Cloud
05Writing & Research

I test the tools
I build with.

I ship with AI coding agents every day, so I benchmark them with executable tests and write up what breaks. Verification is the job.

The Benchmark

Coding-Agent Shootout

A public benchmark for coding models: 8 real engineering tasks, 138 executable Jest verifier tests, no LLM-as-judge.

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Essay

Why I built an executable benchmark for coding agents

Pass means the code compiles, runs, and matches expected behavior. The methodology, end to end.

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Essay

The three failure modes I see in every coding agent

Concrete failure taxonomies from running the benchmark, and the verifier tests that catch each one.

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06Contact

Hire me.

Open to full-stack roles, in-house or at an agency, remote across the US. Full-time, contract, or part-time. Email gets the fastest response.

Running a business and need something built? Same inbox.

braydenwatkins654@gmail.com ↗github.com/watkins654 ↗linkedin.com/in/braydenwatkins ↗Resume (PDF) ↓