02.1Apps
Household applications
Small, specific apps for the people I live with, running privately on a computer in my house. 2 are becoming a product.
Index of use cases
Pezi Labs
- Studio
- Pezi Labs LLC
- Person
- Tom Murphy
- Practice
- UX, 25 years
- Based
- New Hampshire
01Studio
Pezi Labs is my one-person studio. I'm Tom Murphy. For 25 years my job has started the same way: sitting with the people who have the problem, listening until I understand what they actually need, then sketching, prototyping and showing them something real.
That part hasn't changed. What changed is that now I build the whole thing. Right now I build it for my own household, and the best of it is becoming products.
02Practice
What the studio does
02.2Services
Services
I work with owner-run businesses on the problems behind the website: bookings, inventory, the spreadsheet everyone is afraid to touch.
How engagements run
02.3Writing
Writing
The Journeyletter. Field notes on running AI agents for real work, and letters I draft by hand. 7 pieces so far.
The Journeyletter
03Use cases
Use cases
| No. | Use case | Need | For | Status | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Becoming products | |||||
| 001 | Trace | A private health record that keeps the whole story of a long-term condition in one place. | A family member managing a long-term condition | productizing | Flask · Svelte · A local AI model |
| 003 | Whr2 | Helps a couple decide where to live next by ruling places out, together. | A couple deciding where to live next | productizing | Ollama, a local AI model · Plain files, no database |
| In daily use | |||||
| 002 | turph | The home screen for everything my household's software produces. | My household | in daily use | Flask · Svelte · Tailscale · A Mac mini at home |
04Writing
Writing
04.1Notes
Notes
Field notes that start from the exhaust of real work and get edited.
- The fix was done. The record said it wasn't. A short field note on the quiet failure: real work a system finished but never wrote down.
- A button is a claim. Field notes on agent legibility — or, what I saw the first time my own honest interface asked me for seven decisions.
- I couldn't answer four questions about my own button. Field notes on agent legibility — or, the day I tapped a control I built and had no idea what I was executing.
04.2Letters
Letters
Letters that start as my own draft and get structured.
- Efficiency belongs to the house, not the box. A letter on what two years of thermostat data and a stack of utility bills taught me about the machines in my basement, and why efficiency only makes sense for the whole system.
- Approval was never one thing. A letter on building my own Steward to slowly earn the trust to use it, and what Intercom's real PR-approval experiment taught me about what 'approval' actually means.
- Someone has to be the squeaky wheel. A letter on why I'm building a dedicated skeptic into my agent workflow — and what happens when nobody's assigned to doubt the green checkmark.
05Connect
Connect
Most of my work starts with a conversation. If you run a business and something behind the website is slowing you down, or you're curious about one of the household apps, I'd like to hear about it.