( About // 05 )

One person.
Many toolkit.

Hi! I'm Cody Brown. People know me as a father, friend, musician, producer, builder, synthesist, thinker, writer, trader, photographer, or even painter. I've worked professionally in very different fields that appear entirely unrelated on the surface. Beneath the surface though, they share a set of core primitives and requirements that I've realized are highly effective at diagnosing and treating issues that devastate flow and velocity in life, practice, performance, and business. And, It turns out that I enjoy the structural knowledge work that gives most operators the shivers.

Living, working, and traveling in some of the world's great cities and countries, diverse professional and education background, and 28 years of serious artistic practice has given me a unique and multi-disciplinary view of how signal (information) moves and mutates through systems. I've internalized the symptoms and causes of performance degradation when people at 'street level' hit friction, how soon they want change vs. how willing they are to embrace or cause it, and what primitives in a well-architected system encode flow, preserve cognitive bandwidth, and surface the right information, at the right time, in the place you'd naturally expect to find it.

Now, in the midst of another very unexpected new chapter in my life story, I'm focusing all my experience, knowledge and work on on solving a very real new problem that all people and businesses are facing whether they know it yet or not: how do we restore, preserve, and evolve our uniquely human skill and knowledge while consciously integrating and leveraging artificial intelligence to do so? When mega corporations can plagiarize, consume and automate entire industries quarterly, how can communities, businesses, and people recall our attention, mine our own unique, unmapped cognitive data, and leverage that new structured signal for the benefit of ourselves and our communities going forward as the economy and meaning of work and career undergo that fastest most radical transformation in human history?

I'm also working on a few new musical projects that I'm really excited about, building some very exciting personal software projects that I use every day to build the tools and services I offer through Brightinfinite, and organizing 20 years worth of my photography, writing, data hording, visual art, music, and knowledge into a cohesive, personal knowledge corpus. This is the first time I've had a website online in almost 10 years, and there are some really big things planned for both the professional and personal divisions of it.

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I'm from a small desert town in Southern California called Morongo Valley. I grew up in a high desert with a direct view of one of the most topographically prominent mountain peaks in the United States, and I currently reside in Yucca Valley, California, just a few minutes away. Spending my childhood roaming the desert, exploring and climbing rock formations in Joshua Tree National Park, obsessing over jazz saxophone with no neighbors in sight, and staring at that mountain every day cultivated an acute sense of the arc of possibility to achievement that is always looking back at us as we look at our own lives through time. Ignorance, awakening, preparation, practice, skill, setbacks, luck, the valley of shadows, destruction, failure, rebirth, tenacity, resilience, consistency, momentum, vision, and ultimately, freedom is a cycle I've seen operating in my life since I first asked myself as a child if I could ever climb that mountain. Put more simply, that big mountain printed a deep awareness of possibility, process, and outcome as a recursive pattern that our lives express within, and the role that personal vision, effort, and surrender plays in that.

( Chronology )

Now that THAT'S out of the way, here's a quick chronological list of stuff that has happened, to the best of my knowledge at this time:

  • Grew up exploring the desert with my dogs
  • Fell in love with jazz while listening to John Coltrane play "My Favorite Things" during a bath at my Grandmother's house in Hollywood
  • Went to jazz camp
  • Got really good at Tae Kwon Do
  • Went to music school in Denver
  • Became a full-time teacher and freelance saxophonist straight away after grad
  • Played 4 hour jazz sets, three nights a week
  • Became a "back lounge" musician on Carnival Cruise Line's MS Ecstacy with a bunch of conservatory friends, practiced 10-12 hours a day for 6 months
  • Moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn 6 months later
  • Became a bartender at a Wagner Park (lower Manhattan) Italian restaurant, took a vacation on September 10th, 2001, woke up on a bass boat beached in Topac Gorge above Lake Havasu on September 11th, with an airliner flying about 2000 above my head. Found out the world trade center had collapsed, and my subway stop was gone.
  • Went back to NY and served coffee/tea/hot chocolate to emergency crew at the restaurant's second location (Gigino Trattoria) for the next few months
  • Packed up and moved to Santa Fe, NM
  • Got a new gig playing 5 nights a week playing latin lounge jazz at landmark bars and clubs around Santa FE, started bartending at the Coyote Cafe, started practicing Astanga yoga 2 hours a day at Yoga Source
  • Met someone and moved to Miami, Fl
  • Sold mortgage refis, met a strange guy while rollerblading and practicing at 3AM at Bayfront park, Miami, he told me I should audition for USAF bands, which I did
  • Got Married
  • USAF Basic training in San Antonio, Texas
  • Entered active duty, had a child, produced first electronic music album
  • 15 years as a saxophonist in the USAF bands
    • Toured Thailand, played with the king of Thailand at his summer palace (he played saxophone in a golden chair well downstage of the band)
    • Salsa band, original bands, and recordings all around San Antonio and Austin
    • Toured all around the Southwest
    • Moved to Germany, toured all over Europe, played lots of sessions and gigs with my Deutche frens
    • Back to San Antonio, more salsa bands, recordings, jazz gigs
    • Musical director, tour manager, featured soloist
    • Met another person
    • Got Married (again), moved to Saint Louis, MO
    • Produced another electronic music album
    • started trading bitcoin, then forex
    • Moved to Belleville, IL
    • Ran auditions and education outreach, built SharePoint and MS Access databases
    • Learned to code, learned bash, taught saxophone, learned to normalize data, built databases, wrote python
    • Toured all over the Midwest
    • Got a drumset
    • Had another kid
    • Did tons of yoga and meditation in the basement, coded
  • Got a master's degree in Cyber Security
  • Left the USAF, got a job as a SharePoint admin / change management clerk / technical writer / knowledge manager / video editor
  • Got promoted to SharePoint developer
  • Got a job as software developer with Charter communications
  • Played the Monterey Jazz Fest
  • Moved to Belgium as a military spouse, was the best father i could be, played gigs with the NATO jazz band, Klaipeda international jazz fest, wrote a whole bunch of full-stack web apps, got decent at React.js an Svelte, built more databases, Traveled around Europe again, did lots of yoga, went deep into the dark night of the soul, jogged a lot, became a prop firm trader, blew up a bunch of futures accounts when I forced to switch markets after the forex prop industry became hostile to American traders
  • Learned to trade futures, got wrecked, got funded again, got wrecked, got funded again.. normal stuff
  • Started building serious full-stack software with claude.ai, prompting.. prompting.. writing taxonomy, data structures, getting serious about software architecture, design patterns, and automation
  • Suddenly relocated back to my desert home, walked 500+ miles in the desert summer to reorient myself, built more prompt based code, journaled heavily, learned Emacs via orgmode
  • Traded futures, got wrecked, got funded, got wrecked, got funded
  • Got extremely serious about agentic engineering, started building serious CLI based trading systems and automation, dashboard based life and professional management systems, automated anything I could, orchestrated workflows, developed graph-based knowledge management systems as context and memory engines for stateless, ephemeral LLM models
  • Decided to build a business around a domain name and concept I've cultivated since 2009
  • Currently building a business, agentic engineering methodology, multiple web applications across project management, multi-timeframe vision/effort alignment and timeboxing strategies, automated futures trading and analysis systems, the current public facing web application and client portal
  • Still practicing saxophone, still programming synthesizers, still doing yoga late at night

Brightinfinite!
And I'm glad you're here.

So much information, oddly specific detail, yet oddly ambiguous time domain. If you've been reading closely, what should be clear is that I am serial re-inventor, a lifetime learner, I live wabi-sabi ethos, but won't blink at 3rd normal formalizing a database schema. I go as deep as required to unlock improvisation and intuition in highly technical domains, and I'll periodically get highly technical in purely subjective domains.

I came to tech and my diverse skillset via a highly curious and organic path, and I now work at the aligned intersection of my research, creative pursuits, professional foundations, and my hobbies. Everything I've built and learned to do was driven by need, curiosity, and real problems that needed solving, both at the personal level and in highly technical and demanding professional contexts. I took some roads less traveled, tried to fit in and appear however it made people comfortable, did my important work while most the world was asleep at night, broke some hearts, had my heart broken, grinded HAM (still vegetarian though), rarely said no, learned how to say NO, and ultimately found myself at the exact moment when nothing else in life will do but synthesizing all the skill, experience, and methodology into a cohesive machine that helps people and businesses solve classic problems, optimize for operational velocity, and reclaim human cognitive capital to do what it does best: recognize patterns, think critically and creatively, and not fuss about computer things when there is someone like me ready to do that for them.

I am one person, not a firm pretending to have a staff. I embrace problem finding process in creativity, I leverage creative freedom in stuffy business contexts. The ROI is real and stated cleanly up-front. I will tell you the true, unflattering thing when it saves you money, and I will tell you straight when you don't need me, when we aren't a fit, or if I can't deliver effectively in your problem space. Let's see what problem we can solve.

( The deal // 06 )

You name the real problem. I bring the breadth to solve it. We're both done when you can run it without me.