Tippin' Monk · Amsterdam
I build the thing you keep meaning to build yourself.
A one-person automation shop in Amsterdam. Custom internal tools, dashboards, and agents. Built for solo founders and small teams. Three to six weeks per build, plus a weekly brief on retainer. Eleven things below, no press releases, just the work.
// amsterdam · for solo founders, small teams, and analytics leads
01 – 11 Things I've built
// today
Full-stack operations for an immersive event in NL. Site, email, ticketing, volunteers, deliverability, analytics. One seat instead of six.
Visual feedback widget on Cloudflare Workers. Built for a client, now on track to become a micro-SaaS.
CLI transpiler converting Alteryx workflows to PySpark/Databricks. Built because I was tired of doing it by hand.
Eight years of small ugly tools shipped inside analytics teams. The invoice validator that turned Monday into a coffee break. The migration script that saved a quarter.
Cross-tool memory layer for AI. Rebuilt mid-session after discovering 97.8% of LLM-extracted memories are junk.
Personal finance dashboard wired to 600+ EU banks via Tink. Built because I refused the €10/mo alternatives.
Multi-agent deep-research pipeline. Fans out sub-researchers, writes to my vault. I designed this site with it.
Inbox triage that archives everything not written by a human expecting a reply. One rule, shockingly effective.
CLI for dance-video edits. Body tracking, music sync, batch export. Replaces a workflow I was doing every week in CapCut.
AI pipeline for my own job hunt. CV tailoring, browser-automated applications, status tracking.
Agent that watches my work sessions and surfaces what got blocked. Named after the Interstellar robot.
// the working agreement
Registered Dutch eenmanszaak (KVK 42037876, BTW-charged). Signed scopes. NDAs on request. 48-hour response on retainers. Larger engagements run on a proper SOW. Same terms for solo founders and companies.
section_02 / what_you_get
What you actually get when we work together.
You describe the thing that keeps bleeding hours, or the data nobody has time to read. I look at it the way I'd look at my own ops. I come back with a rough plan, a rough price, and a date by which a working version exists.
Then I get to work. Most of the things in the grid above took between three and six weeks. Yours probably will too.
The shape of the build depends on what hurts.
- Sometimes a CLI vidkit · alteryx2dbx
- Sometimes a dashboard Hisaaby
- Sometimes a widget on edge infrastructure Feedpulse
- Sometimes an agent Job Assistant · TARS
- Sometimes a weekly brief Survive the Z
- Sometimes a field report Mourid
Always opinionated. Never a template someone else sold to everyone else.
section_03 / how_it_works
// three weeks, not three months
We talk.
You tell me what's broken or what you want built. I ask a lot of questions. By the end we both know if this is a good fit.
I work.
Fast iterations, not months of silence. Progress shows up in days. Drafts, demos, working versions. No big reveals.
You keep it.
Everything I build or write, you own. Code, dashboards, docs, briefs. All of it yours. If you want me to stick around after that, I'm here.
section_04 / engagement
// three ways to work together
Roadmap
from€500
Not sure what to automate yet? Start here.
- 90-minute diagnostic call
- Written action plan for any builder
- Credited toward Build if you continue
Build
from€3,500
Scoped custom automation. Yours to keep.
- Custom tool, dashboard, agent, or field report
- Discovery, design, implementation, handoff
- You own the code and docs
- Delivered in 2-4 weeks
Autopilot
from€3,500
+ €650/mo retainer
Build + ongoing iteration as your workflow evolves.
- Everything in Build, plus:
- Monthly iteration as workflow changes
- 5 hours/month, 48h response SLA
- Proactive monitoring
Not sure which fits? Book a 20-minute fit call. Free, no pitch.
Solo founders also get weekly analytical briefs on retainer. Ask in the call. Larger enterprise engagements: talk to me. All rates excl. BTW.
section_05 / whos_behind_it
Kartik Aggarwal.
8y analytics across supply chain, retail, fintech · MBA, UvA
amsterdam · diwali 2023
You're on the about page, so here's the short honest version.
I don't believe most operational problems need a project. They need someone to sit next to the person doing the painful thing, watch them do it twice, and write a small ugly tool by Thursday. I've done that quietly for eight years inside analytics teams, and now I do it for solo founders and small businesses too. An invoice validator that turned a Monday into a coffee break. A migration script that saved a quarter. A weekly brief that turned a creator's Sunday-night spreadsheet into a five-minute scan. A review process that used to eat six hundred hours a year until it didn't. None of it was on a roadmap. All of it shipped.
I don't do discovery phases. I don't send decks. I don't use the word leverage.
Tippin' Monk is where I do that work on purpose. Before Amsterdam I ran a café in the Himalayas for two years alongside a full-time job. Same principle: the thing breaking a business is almost never the thing on the agenda. It is the small thing repeating every Tuesday.
// Kartik
Now · updated this week
- shipping · Survive the Z feedback loop v2
- open source · alteryx → databricks cli v0.4.0
- reading · Blair Enns, Win Without Pitching
section_06 / questions
Frequently asked
What if you're not the right fit for my project?
I'll tell you in the fit call. Projects that need a roadmap longer than 6 weeks, require a team of 3+, or depend on tools I don't know, I'll point you to a specialist. The free call is diagnostic, not a pitch. A 'no' there saves both of us a bad engagement.
I'm a solo founder, not a tech team. Is this for me?
Yes. Solo operators are about half the work: barbershop owners, newsletter creators, consultants. Smaller scope than an enterprise build. Same approach. A small ugly tool or a weekly brief that fits the way you actually work, shipped in weeks not quarters.
What kinds of workflows do you automate?
Anything that runs on a predictable-enough pattern but doesn't fit an off-the-shelf tool. Event ops, product-launch coordination, analyst-heavy reporting, model validation loops, anything AI-assisted. If it's generic enough for Zapier templates, I'm not the right fit.
How long does a Build take?
Typically 2-4 weeks, start to handoff. Fast iteration, not month-long silences. You'll see progress in days.
Why would I pay for a roadmap instead of getting a free proposal?
A roadmap is the work. A proposal is a sales pitch. You get a 90-minute diagnostic and a written action plan you can hand to any builder, including me. If you decide to continue, the €500 is credited toward the Build.