Bureau of Surprisingly Useful Things
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Bureau Archives · Volume I
Projects officially registered with the Bureau. Each case is documented, stamped, and filed with the appropriate level of bureaucratic disinterest.
Local-first voice assistant. Voice in, voice out, full macOS control, no cloud.
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Brief
Privacy-first AI assistant that runs entirely on-device. Voice in, voice out, full macOS control. The cloud never sees a thing.
Tech Stack
Bureau Authorization
Samuel Odenkey Abbey
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Credit for the women African banks quietly miss.
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The website for a collateral-free lender — three products, three colour worlds, and a design that has to earn trust in thirty seconds on a mid-range Android.
Tech Stack
Bureau Authorization
Samuel Odenkey Abbey
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Vehicle ownership, paid down weekly while the vehicle earns.
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Hire-purchase financing for Ghanaian drivers: a public site, a Dryver dashboard, a Partner dashboard for funding vehicles with a car or capital, and the admin console operations ran the book from.
Tech Stack
Bureau Authorization
Samuel Odenkey Abbey
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Monthly rent where the market demands two years upfront.
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Rent in monthly instalments instead of 1–2 years upfront, with on-time payments building a credit history. Running across 150+ recurring tenant contracts.
Tech Stack
Bureau Authorization
Samuel Odenkey Abbey
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Retrieval for cyber defence that knows when it does not know.
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Brief
MSc research: dual-path retrieval over CVE/CWE/CAPEC/ATT&CK with three-stage confidence scoring. Calibration error 0.096 — 56% better than document-only retrieval.
Tech Stack
Bureau Authorization
Samuel Odenkey Abbey
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Personnel File · Classified
Field Report · Filed by the Agent
The agent known as Nii has been building things since he could type. Currently operating as a software engineer, he produces systems that solve real problems — occasionally by accident, usually on purpose.
Current mission: assemble a body of software and hardware work that is genuinely useful, presented with the appropriate level of institutional absurdity. The Bureau does not distinguish between projects that should exist and projects that should not. Every case gets a stamp.
When not writing code, the agent is investigating hardware, questioning why things are built the way they are, and building prototypes of things that probably shouldn't exist but work surprisingly well.
— End of field report. Classification: unnecessarily detailed.
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The Bureau of Surprisingly Useful Things is not responsible for any career decisions made on the basis of this portfolio. All inventions certified by the International Bureau of Pointless Technology. Resemblance to actual useful products is coincidental and deeply regretted.
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