Finance at College of Charleston, then Charleston at street level: running operations for a pedicab company, wrenching in a bike shop, a stint on a mortgage desk. Joined Hanham's yacht desk in 2022.
I place yacht insurance. I ship software.
By day I run the yacht desk at Hanham Insurance Agency. Most nights and weekends I'm in a terminal, building Yardy and MarineCRM. South Carolina raised, in Charleston since college, and not going anywhere.
Quoting, binding, and servicing yachts across London and US markets. Boutique, marine-only, and personal: the same broker every time.
Founded Yardy LLC and built the product solo: web, iOS, scrapers, search, the lot.
Founded and built it inside a working yacht desk; now productizing for other marine agencies.
Finance at College of Charleston, then Charleston at street level: running operations for a pedicab company, wrenching in a bike shop, a stint on a mortgage desk. Joined Hanham's yacht desk in 2022.
Started using AI on the yacht desk's email load: twenty-five client emails a day, every one written by hand until then. No repo, no plan, just an inbox.
First git commit. The tooling that grew out of the inbox became a codebase.
MarineCRM went live for the agency: renewals, evidence trails, commission reconciliation. The CRM I wanted didn't exist, so I built it.
Started Yardy. Web-first at yardy.sale: every yard sale, estate sale, and auction from 20+ sources, searchable on one map.
Formed Yardy LLC.
Yardy went live on the App Store.
Eighteen months from first prompt to two shipped products. Deep domain knowledge plus modern tools compounds fast.
Field note · Saturday mornings usually start at an estate sale. I call it product research.
Every yard sale, estate sale, and auction near you: aggregated daily from 20+ sources across 180+ cities, on the web and iOS.
A CRM built for marine insurance from inside a working yacht desk: renewals, evidence trails, commissions, policy context. Built for us, shaped for the industry.
At Hanham Insurance Agency, all we do is marine: a boutique, discreet service for owners, owners' representatives, yacht managers, crew managers, legal firms, yacht brokers, and captains. With offices in the US and London we reach the Lloyd's market faster than most US-based brokers, and the job is detail work: strong policy forms, the correct coverage and limits, the right market for the boat. Licensed property & casualty in South Carolina; on the desk since 2022. If you own a boat, run one, or broker them, I'm easy to reach.