Sacred Lantern Studio
AI that ships in
two weeks, not two quarters.
No decks, no pilots that go nowhere. I build the working system: AI assistants, content pipelines, data automation, payments — designed, built, deployed and handed over by one person who is accountable for the outcome.
Fixed-scope quotes or day rate. First engagement can be split into two phases so you validate before committing.
Support can't keep up
The same question answered fifty times a day, and nobody on at 2am. An assistant that reads your docs and escalates when unsure cuts that in half.
Content isn't shipping
Ten posts a week written by hand until it stops. Turn research, drafting and cross-platform rewrites into a pipeline — humans approve, machines produce.
Data moves by hand
Export from the dashboard, paste into a sheet, forward to a group. That whole loop can run itself, and it stops making transcription errors.
Services
Four things I do well. Prices are starting points; scope decides the rest.
AI feature integration
from $1,2007–12 business daysYou want an AI assistant, smart search, or automated content — but nobody on the team has shipped one.
- ·Requirements doc: inputs, outputs, failure modes
- ·Working frontend + backend module
- ·Prompt templates and context assembly you can edit
- ·Cost control: timeouts, retries, fallbacks, token caps
- ·Call logging and error monitoring
- ·Deployment + 1-hour handover recording
A site that takes payments
from $2,50015–25 business daysYou have something to sell and need the whole chain: site, checkout, delivery.
- ·10–30 responsive pages
- ·Content layer you can edit yourself
- ·Stripe Checkout + success page + email delivery
- ·Transactional email: receipt, delivery, refund
- ·Technical SEO: sitemap, structured data, OG cards
- ·Domain, SSL, backups and monitoring configured
Technical SEO audit & fix
from $4005–10 business daysThe site is six months old, you publish regularly, and search traffic just isn't coming.
- ·Search Console index status, cause by cause
- ·Full crawl: content length, duplication, canonical, status codes
- ·Issue list ranked by impact, each with evidence
- ·Fixes implemented: SSR, duplicate consolidation, schema
- ·Before/after report
Automation pipeline
from $9007–15 business daysSomeone spends hours a day on repetitive work: scraping, spreadsheets, cross-posting.
- ·Process mapping: what happens now, where it stalls
- ·Scraping / sync scripts with retry and dedupe
- ·Scheduled runs and result storage
- ·Notifications via email, Slack or Telegram
- ·Monitoring and alerting when a run fails
- ·Runbook for your team
Case
A paid content platform, built end to end by one person
Sacred Lantern (sacredlantern.online) — a spirituality content and paid-reading platform. Personal project: architecture, build, payments and operations all done solo. Backend and code structure can be demoed live.
Implementation
- · Next.js App Router + TypeScript, 126 pages, SSG / ISR hybrid
- · Supabase across 14 tables: orders, readings, events, page views
- · Stripe Checkout with webhook-driven delivery and a full order state machine
- · AI module with 30s timeout, fallback path, per-call cost logging
- · Hong Kong VPS, Caddy reverse proxy, PM2, automatic SSL
SEO work
- · 21 pages stuck in "Crawled – currently not indexed"
- · Root cause: client-only rendering, first HTML payload was 46 characters
- · Moved content to a server-rendered layer: 46 → 3,677 characters
- · Consolidated 3 duplicate topic clusters with 308s, sitemap 126 → 121
- · Added noindex to private pages to stop wasting crawl budget
This is an implementation record — evidence of process and code, not a revenue claim.
Stack
How it works
01
Diagnose
I look at what you have and send back a one-page list of what is actually broken.
02
Scope
Fixed range, timeline and acceptance criteria in writing before anything starts.
03
Build
Weekly progress, working software each week — not a reveal at the end.
04
Ship
Deploy, handover recording, 30 days of free bug fixes.
Store
Things I built, packaged so you can just use them
Templates, scripts and a bilingual site skeleton — the same ones I use. No courses, no memberships, no upsells. Each one ships as a working, downloadable package.
Next.js + Stripe starter · Site audit script · Bilingual site skeleton
Describe the problem first. We'll talk price after.
Send me your situation and what you are trying to fix. I'll tell you whether it is worth building, roughly what it costs, and whether there is a cheaper way. If I am not the right fit, I will say so.
Replies within 24h on weekdays · Contracts and invoices available