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Dan Mirolli

Valewyn, Aerenfold

About

I sold software for eight years. I joined Signpost in 2015 as a business development rep. I left in 2019 as its senior sales manager. I earned six promotions in four years. My buyers were plumbers, roofers, and HVAC techs. They hate software. They buy because it works. I went on to sell to big companies at Formstack and Palantir. The budgets were a hundred times bigger. The question was the same. Does the thing do the job?

In 2023 I started to build. ReviewWheel began as a wider platform for contractors (YAI). The best part got contractors more customers from Google with SEO, reviews, and websites. I built a self-serve platform around that part. It does the work better than anyone.

Workbench is an open source benchmark. It scores every AI model on three axes: intelligence, efficiency, and agency. It tests them on entry level, middle management, and senior executive work. Model Topography draws the map: every model as one dot in 3D space. They answer one question. Which model do I hand this to?

Outside work, I lift heavy sandbags and train with firearms. I think, write, and pray about the future of my family, my nation, and my Roman Catholic faith.

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Aerenfold

You play as Thaeryn on the roads of Valewyn, walking east toward Cair Alor. You start with your fists. The spear comes later.

It is being built at aerenfold.com.

contents23 September 2026

Evolve what exists. A camel stays a camel.

Every rewrite starts with the same lie: this time we will get it right from scratch.

The thing you have already works. It has a shape people recognize. It carries decisions that were made for reasons nobody wrote down. Throw it out and you throw the reasons out with it.

So the rule is simple. Unless someone asks for a blank canvas, treat existing work as an evolutionary chain. Add to it. Remove from it. Keep its identity.

A camel can evolve. It stays a camel.