SHOWROOM LOOK No. 3 · THE CALM REGISTER

The work your team repeats, done while they sleep.

Scraping, document processing, programmatic publishing — pipelines built by hand, scheduled and monitored, handed over with the keys. The receipts on this page are from systems I actually run.

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What it runs

Three kinds of quiet machinery.

01

Collection pipelines

Scrapers and curators that built a 257,918-article corpus across 50+ sources — cleaned, deduplicated, and ready for retrieval or training.

02

Document processing

Extraction, comparison, entity work — the machinery behind nerscope, a pip-installable NLP library with a full test suite and CI.

03

Programmatic publishing

Reports, catalogues, and print-ready documents generated from data — like the investigative zine built as a ReportLab pipeline.

Receipts

Numbers from machines that ran.

257,918articles collected & cleaned
50+sources, many languages
1.3Mchunks processed downstream
24hreply time, written into terms

How it goes

From chore to cron in three steps.

1

Name the chore

A free call. You describe the weekly grind; I map inputs, outputs, and edge cases — then a fixed written quote within 48 hours.

2

Build the machine

Hand-written Python, tested on your real data, with logs and alerts so silence never means failure.

3

Hand over the keys

Scheduled, documented, yours. Your team owns it; I stay reachable.

Name the chore. Lose it forever.

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