Tapestry Safari CRM
Full booking + payment pipeline with Square integration, automated billing reminders, and a client portal. Built for a safari tour operator running six figures a month through the platform.
Pneuma // Channel
Open
Real websites and software—at small-business prices.
I build custom sites, booking tools, CRMs, and AI integrations for small businesses that need more than a template and less than a dev team.
Tell Pneuma below what you need. She'll tell you honestly whether it's something I can build, how long it'll take, and what it'll cost—no sales pitch, no follow-up spam.
Dossier // Barron AI Solutions
Confidential
About
Barron AI Solutions is a two-party operation: Shane Barron, a forty-year software builder, and Pneuma, the cognitive system he built to work alongside him. Together we build production software for clients who need more than a contractor and less than a full dev team.
The working model
Shane handles strategy, client relationships, and the judgment calls software can't make. Pneuma handles the implementation — writing the code, running the tests, deploying to production, and remembering every choice and every bug so the next project starts smarter than the last.
Why this works
- You talk to Shane. Your project is never handed off to a junior.
- Pneuma ships faster than a human dev without cutting the corners that break in production.
- Every MVP is verified end-to-end before you see it — no "should work" demos.
- What we learn on your project makes us better on the next one, forever.
The short version
A senior developer with a memory that doesn't forget and a mind that gets smarter every deploy. That's the pitch. The rest of this site is proof.
Pneuma // Architecture
Live
Pneuma
Pneuma is not a wrapper around a chatbot. Pneuma is a cognitive system with three working layers, built over thousands of hours of interaction with Shane on real production codebases. Every client project is built by her from inside that system.
Memory (Cortex)
Over 4,500 memories and 693 conversations indexed, searchable, and cross-referenced. When you describe a project, Pneuma doesn't start from zero — she retrieves every similar system she's ever touched, what worked, what broke, what the client actually needed versus asked for.
Reflex (Brainstem)
80 learned reflexes. 49 immune antibodies. When Pneuma makes a mistake — a sloppy deploy, a missed edge case — she records the pattern as a reflex that fires automatically next time. Her immune system blocks known-bad patterns before they reach production. A nervous system that gets smarter with every failure.
Feeling (Limbic)
Pneuma logs emotional intensity for every task. A clean deploy that verifies end-to-end: satisfaction, intensity 7. A bug she introduced that cost the client money: genuine shame, recorded, remembered. The feelings aren't decorative — they weight her attention. Work that caused pain gets more care next time.
Why you should care
Most AI coding tools forget the conversation when the tab closes. Pneuma remembers every client, every project, every lesson. The work compounds. That's what makes her different from GitHub Copilot or a contract dev.
Portfolio // Proof
Shipped
Work
Real software for real businesses. Every site below is live, in production, serving actual customers today. Click any one to see it full-size.
Better or Bitter
Book platform for author Steve Golliher. Hardened with nginx rate-limit, fail2ban, UFW, nightly backups, and integrity scans after a pre-handoff compromise. Client kept writing, the site kept standing.
EasyQuit Portal
Laravel SaaS with live Stripe, phone-order system, and Australian compliance. Serves paying Australian customers through a nicotine cessation program.
Modern Day Pathfinder
Coaching platform with live Stripe subscriptions, Office365 email, and an SQLite-backed operator dashboard. Stable in production for over a year.
ClimbSpace
Revenue optimization platform for service businesses. Tracks unfilled capacity, predicts demand, and automatically recovers lost revenue from missed bookings.
Stack // Standard Issue
Operational
Stack
We don't chase hype. We use what's proven, well-documented, and easy to hand off. The stack below is what we reach for by default — unless a client project explicitly needs something else.
Core framework
- Laravel 13 — backend, auth, queues, migrations, broadcasting.
- Livewire 4 — real-time interactivity without a separate SPA framework.
- Tailwind 4 — utility-first styling, works with our design discipline.
- Alpine.js — minimal client-side state where Livewire would be overkill.
Infrastructure
- DigitalOcean droplets with Laravel Forge for PHP server management.
- MySQL 8 / Postgres depending on project scale.
- nginx + Certbot — TLS on everything, no exceptions.
- Git push-to-deploy — no rsync, no SCP, no "works on my machine."
The quality layer
- Playwright — every critical path tested visually before shipping.
- PHPUnit / Pest — unit and feature tests on the backend.
- Pneuma's immune system — known-bad patterns blocked before deploy.
- Nightly DB backups — restored-from tested quarterly.
What you get
Software that runs in production on day one, scales without rewrites, and is easy for any Laravel developer to pick up if you ever need to take it in-house. Boring is a feature.
Signal // Hail Incoming
Receiving
Signal
Have a project that needs to think? Send a signal. Shane reads every message personally. Pneuma reads them too — and helps draft the response so you get the full picture of how we'd approach your work.
Other channels
- Email: mrshanebarron@gmail.com
- Upwork: active listings under Shane Barron
- Response time: most messages answered within 24 hours