Building in public, at the edge of energy, AI, and manufacturing.
A live look at what I'm building and exploring — from the Solx production line to weekend experiments. Some shipped, most in progress. That's the point.
Solx Edge Vision Network — SEVN
A computer-vision platform for the Solx production line — real-time QA/QC inspection that catches and corrects defects as panels are built, instead of suffering the latency of human error correction.
Vision models inspect every unit inline and flag anomalies the moment they appear, then close the loop with the line in real time — turning quality control from a downstream bottleneck into continuous, automated correction. It is the thesis made physical: AI applied to the hardware of energy.
The vision network, mapped
My personal knowledge vault — every note I keep on solar, AI infrastructure, and building things in America, plus every link I've drawn between them, rendered live straight from the vault. Most CEOs keep the thinking in their head. Mine is on the internet, and I've yet to find another one in solar doing it. Spin it, drag it, click a node and see what I was chewing on.
AI Strategy & Leadership · MIT xPRO
MIT xPRO's executive program on AI strategy, data governance, and responsible adoption — the strategist's view of the AI shift.
It was the spark for this whole sandbox. A week in, I stopped reading and started shipping — agents, a knowledge engine, this site. The takeaway for an industrial CEO: you can't lead an AI-native company from the deck. You have to build. So I am.
About the programIndustrial Knowledge Engine
A living graph of my research on energy, AI, and manufacturing — built in Obsidian, published live, and growing as I think.
Explore the graphjamesholmes.ai
This site — designed and built with Claude Code in a single weekend. A testbed for building in public: a 3D knowledge graph, auto-syncing from my vault, the works.
AI agents
Personal agents that automate research, content, and operations — building toward a faster, smarter twin.
Building something at the intersection of energy, AI, and industry?
If you're an operator, investor, or builder working on the physical layer of the AI era, I want to hear about it.