Fifteen years running live sound and AV taught me one thing well: take messy, disconnected technology and make it do exactly what someone needs, on time and under pressure. Now I do the same with AI, cloud tooling, and code.
A sound engineer is a systems integrator with a deadline of "doors open at seven."
I spent fifteen years in live production — mixing, patching Dante networks, programming lighting rigs, keeping complicated gear talking to itself while a room full of people waited. Somewhere in there I realised the actual skill was never "audio." It was making unfamiliar systems behave, translating the technical into plain language, and staying calm when everything was on fire.
These days I point that same skill at AI and software. I build practical, AI-powered systems for small businesses around Southeast Queensland through my consultancy, Vernl — and I ship my own products, most recently Momints, a camera app on Solana Mobile. Same job. Different gear.
AI-powered operations systems for event, venue, and trade businesses in SEQ — quoting, scheduling, follow-ups, the admin that eats your evenings. Built by someone who's been on your side of the desk.
Visit Vernl → Product · Web3A lomo-style camera app for Solana Mobile. Shoot first, own it forever — photos mint straight to chain. A full-stack build: gasless payments, permanent storage, automated treasury, app-store shipped.
See Momints → Build logs · LabWrite-ups of real builds — a self-hosted smart-home rebuild, a two-keeper crypto treasury, a pool controller integration, a 3D-printed transmitter dock. How the systems actually got made.
Read the logs →Fifteen years across festivals, venues, and installs — including directing AV infrastructure for a major venue renovation. The foundation everything else is built on.
On requestGot a system that should work better than it does? hello@traviskeir.com