The proof came first.
WebAble started as a hackathon build. The brief: use AI to solve a real problem for a real community. I shipped a working browser accessibility-and-control prototype and won first place at the University at Buffalo’s AI for Good Hackathon.
Winning was nice. What stuck with me was the thing the judges saw before anyone funded it: users shouldn’t have to wait for every website on earth to decide to care about them. The fix shouldn’t live on the website’s to-do list. It should live with the person.
I’m green-orange colorblind.
It’s a small thing. It rarely gets in my way, the funniest exception being the day I tried to wire my own ethernet cable and learned that the color code does not care about my opinion. But it taught me something early: interfaces have a default person in mind, and it isn’t always you.
Once you notice that, you can’t stop noticing it. The relative squinting at a menu. The grandparent who gave up on the bank’s website. The friend who navigates by voice because a mouse is hard. None of them are “edge cases.” They’re people hitting a wall that someone, somewhere, decided not to build a door into.
I don’t think of that as a disability problem. I think of it as a bottleneck problem, and bottlenecks are the thing I’ve spent my life attacking.
I optimize things. Compulsively.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve tried to win at whatever I set my mind to, not in a trophy way, in a find-the-most-efficient-path-through-anything way. Faster, clearer, less wasted motion. Technology was the multiplier that let me do that. It taught me, accelerated me, compounded me.
And the whole time, I kept watching that same multiplier get taxed away from other people by interfaces that didn’t fit them. That’s the part I find genuinely hard to accept. If technology made me more capable, it should be able to make anyone more capable. The only thing standing in the way is how we build the layer between people and their tools.
So I’m building that layer.
WebAble is two halves of one loop. For people: a portable interface layer that adapts any website to how you actually read, focus, click, and understand, installed once, applied everywhere, no waiting on the site. For the businesses behind those sites: a way to turn the adaptations users keep needing into permanent, source-level fixes, shipped natively on whatever platform they already run, faster than the industry moves.
Accessibility is the wedge. It’s concrete, it’s underserved, and it’s where the pain is sharpest. But the real category is bigger: adaptive interfaces, the web reshaping itself around the human in front of it, instead of the human contorting to fit the web. Accessibility, SEO, performance, voice, page understanding, automation, they’re all the same fight from different angles. Make the interaction between people and the web cost less.
Where I’m coming from.
I studied Information Technology and Management at the University at Buffalo with a Cybersecurity minor, systems, operations, and product thinking in one stack. I’ve done web, SEO, analytics, automation, and digital-operations work with organizations including The Bee Conservancy and VSG Power, and built startup plans through UB’s Blackstone LaunchPad. I fund WebAble through related technical work while I build it.
That client work taught me the unglamorous truth the whole company is built on: teams don’t need another report. They need the fix shipped. Reports get filed. Fixes change outcomes. WebAble automates the part between “here’s what’s wrong’” and “it’s live now.”
Where this goes.
I haven’t won with WebAble yet. Emphasis on yet. A hackathon says the idea has signal. The next chapter is reps, real sites, real fixes, real before-and-afters, real customers. I’m building in the open and looking for the early partners who want to be in the proof archive while it’s still being written.
If you build websites, run one, invest in this category, or just hit a wall on the web today that you shouldn’t have, I want to hear from you. This only works as a ripple. It starts with one person it makes more capable, and it doesn’t stop there.