Greenville, South Carolina
Tom Chapman
Software developer by trade. Insurance agent, land buyer, and game builder by choice. I build with AI in all of it — models running on my own hardware, not just a chat window.
The short version
I've never been able to leave a problem alone once I can see the shape of the fix. That's the whole explanation for everything below.
By day I'm a software developer in the automotive industry — real systems, real constraints, code that has to work when nobody's watching. That's the trade, and it's the through-line for the rest.
The other through-line is AI, and I mean the engineering rather than the buzzword. I run models on my own GPU, route them behind a single endpoint that fails over to the cloud when the box is asleep, build retrieval systems that cite their sources, and have a pipeline where a local model writes code and my test suite decides whether it survives. When something I build is wrong, I can usually tell you which layer lied.
The rest is what happens when you can build your own tools. I got my insurance license and started an independent practice, then got tired enough of the software agents get handed that I started writing my own — quoting tools, a search index over Medicare regulations, back-office automation that does the parts I'd otherwise do badly at 11pm.
I buy and sell rural land, mostly owner-financed, and wrote my own listing scraper and comps pipeline rather than trust whatever a listing page claims an acre is worth.
And I build games — an Unreal Engine 5 shooter that's in public alpha with its own dedicated server, plus a handful of Minecraft plugins my kids actually play. One of them is a set of interest-bearing storage barrels I wrote to teach them saving, investing, and getting scammed, in roughly that order.
Underneath all of it is a homelab that I keep pointing at my own life: it triages my email, transcribes and summarizes my meetings, reads me a briefing in the morning, and answers questions against everything I've ever bothered to write down. None of it is public, so I rebuilt six of those tools as demos you can click through — same interfaces, entirely made-up data.
None of this is a side-hustle strategy. I just like building things, and the four businesses are what happens when that habit runs long enough.
Currently
What's actually on the bench.
The business side
Where all of it lives.
C6 Enterprises LLC
One of the two companies I own. C6 covers the land, the software and automation, and the games — the insurance practice is its own LLC, Tom Chapman Insurance. If you want the detail on any of it, that's the map.
On video
Two channels, two very different audiences.
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