Alastair Robertson

Product manager, Underground producer, Vibecoder, Wander

About

I build things with software and sound. By day I lead digital product for a corporate organisation; on the side I run precontractreview.com, which gets prospective home buyers and investors a quick analysis of a property contract before they take it to a solicitor or conveyancer. The rest of the time I'm collecting synth patches, plane tickets and half-finished side projects.

Music takes up most of what is left. I produce in Ableton, and I make my own music videos and album art to go with it, so a release ends up mine the whole way through: the track, the visuals and the cover.

This site is a love letter to the classic Macintosh, the first computer that made me feel like machines could be friendly. Everything here is hand-rolled HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No frameworks were harmed.

Double-click the icons on the desktop to explore. Drag the windows around. Try the Special menu. There may be a screensaver if you idle long enough.

Career

Seven years of corporate digital product, plus a software company I run alongside it. Full CV on request.

Digital Product Lead

Now

Leading digital product for a corporate organisation: discovery, roadmaps, delivery, and the quiet diplomacy required to get a good idea past various stakeholders. Seven years of corporate product experience behind it.

Founder · precontractreview.com

Alongside

An AI contract review platform for Victorian property, built and run solo. Product, pricing, support email, and the CSS. All of it.

Double degree

Study

Business Information Systems and Information Technology, majoring in computer science. Sitting across both is why I can hold a conversation on either side of the table when product meets engineering.

Website consulting

Earlier

Freelance work for a range of clients: diagnosing and fixing SEO problems, building and updating WordPress sites, and managing their hosting so they did not have to think about it.

Clothing label

After high school

Ran my own brand and got it stocked in brick and mortar stores across Melbourne. First lesson in building something people will actually pay for, and in how much of that turns out to be logistics.

Toolbox

Projects

Things I build when nobody asked me to.

Clipdeck

DAW

An Ableton-style digital audio workstation that runs entirely in a browser tab. Session and arrangement views, 45 instruments, 78 effects, 547 presets, a piano roll, a mixer with sends and returns, a song builder and a mastering assistant. No install, no account, free, and it keeps working once the tab is offline.

Stock Feeder

Web app

Investment research for people who do not have a Bloomberg terminal. It scores and ranks 550+ stocks across the S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 on a composite of fundamentals, then hangs the useful tools off that: a screener, model portfolios for value, growth, dividend and momentum strategies, sector and thematic watchlists, an earnings calendar and volume alerts.

Property Risk

Web app

Environmental risk reports for Victorian properties. Put in an address and it pulls flood, bushfire, contamination and planning overlays from eight VicPlan layers plus the EPA Priority Sites Register, then hands back a traffic-light summary in about five seconds. Every finding links to the official source that produced it, and the whole thing prints on one page.

Bark Kart: Island Tour

Game

A browser kart racer with a roster of dogs. Six themed islands (tropical, volcanic, snow, night city, desert and swamp), Grand Prix cups, split-screen and online rooms, battle mode, time trials, a daily challenge, and a track editor for drawing your own courses. All rendered on a canvas.

AI Lab

Applied AI, from both ends: shipping it as product, and pulling it apart at home to see how it works.

precontractreview.com

Product

An AI contract review platform for Victorian property. It reads a vendor's statement end to end and surfaces what a buyer would actually want to know: the easements, the covenants, the owners corporation surprise on page 74, all before anyone signs. Built it, run it, sell it.

Local inference

Hardware

A Mac Studio running open-weight models entirely offline through LM Studio. No API bill, no rate limit, no telemetry, no third party reading the prompts, and a noticeably warmer room.

Agents

Research

Running agent harnesses in anger (OpenClaw, Hermes and others) to work out where autonomy genuinely earns its keep and where it just produces confident nonsense faster.

Frontier models

Practice

Working with the hosted frontier models daily, and watching how quickly the open-weight ones close the gap. The distance between the two is the most interesting number in the industry right now.

Music

The other half of my brain. Entirely self-taught, and somewhere north of 600,000 Spotify streams.

DJ yuppie bogan

Visuals

The picture half of it. I make analog glitch video, real signal pushed through real hardware until it falls apart in a way worth keeping, and I generate Bryce 3D inspired environments for music videos: the chrome spheres, checkerboard horizons and impossible terrain of 1990s render software.

Playing

Ableton for the arranging, analog and digital synths for everything else, and a patch-cable situation that is becoming a genuine fire hazard.

Travel

Thirty-four countries so far, plus home. Every one is pinned below. Click a name to find it on the map.

Home

East Asia

South-East Asia

South Asia

Middle East & North Africa

Europe

Central America

South America

Contact

djyuppiebogan@gmail.com

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