# Gavin Basuel — llms.txt
# Machine-readable resume for agents. Human site: https://gavinbasuel.com
# Full markdown: https://gavinbasuel.com/resume.md
# PDF: https://gavinbasuel.com/Gavin_Basuel_Resume_2026.pdf

## Identity
- Name: Gavin Basuel
- Title: Forward-Deployed & Design Engineer · Agentic Systems & Growth
- Creator of: tattoo.dev (https://tattoo.dev), uqp.dev — Universal Quoting Protocol (https://uqp.dev), and quote.dev (https://quote.dev)
- Location: Las Vegas, NV (America/Los_Angeles)
- Email: gavin@1gmedia.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinbasuel/
- X: https://x.com/GavinBasuel
- X Chat (Direct DM): https://x.com/messages/compose?recipient_id=2152188199
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GavinBasuel
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gavinbasuel/
- Medium: https://medium.com/@UXGavin
- Designlab: https://app.designlab.com/profile/uxgavin/
- Site: https://gavinbasuel.com

## Education
- University of Washington — B.A., Science, Technology, and Society (2018)
- Designlab UX Academy (Phase 1 & Phase 2, full-time from Nov 2016) — 105 shipped UI/UX design submissions under 1-on-1 mentorship — https://app.designlab.com/profile/uxgavin/
- Global AI Hackathon Seattle (2017) — 3rd Place, UX & Frontend Lead

## Summary
Creator of tattoo.dev, uqp.dev (Universal Quoting Protocol), and quote.dev — founder & forward-deployed design engineer shipping AI-native protocols, developer APIs, agent fleets, and revenue systems end-to-end across Done Agents and 1G Media. Founder who designs, ships, and operates AI-native products, agent tooling, and revenue systems end-to-end — bridging product engineering, UX/web design, CRM automations, and T-shaped growth.

## Forward-Deployed Thesis
> I have spent my time building and deploying AI workflows and CRM systems where I was entirely responsible for talking to stakeholders, identifying operational bottlenecks, and shipping the solution. Because I worked with agile businesses, I know how to move fast and prove ROI quickly. I am looking to bring that exact same high-agency, value-driven execution to enterprise-scale data infrastructure.

## Active platforms (verified)
- uqp.dev — Universal Quoting Protocol, Layer 1 (Creator) — https://uqp.dev · https://universalquotingprotocol.com — fills the gap UCP leaves for non-fixed-price services: AI agent discovery, structured intake, quoting, then routes into UCP once a price is determined; Apache-2.0, @uqp/core + @uqp/packs
- quote.dev — Quote Router for AI agents, Layer 2 IN ACTIVE BUILD / work in progress (Creator & Founder) — https://quote.dev — built on UQP + UCP checkout handoff; <10s /auth.md, <200ms Stage 1, remote MCP, quote locks; not every vertical finished
- tattoo.dev / docs.tattoo.dev — API, MCP & agentic tools making software free for the tattoo industry (Creator) — https://tattoo.dev · https://docs.tattoo.dev · sits with Tattoo.co (marketplace) and Tattoo.Agency (hands-on ops); peer UQP implementation indexing 23,236 studios and 3,736 artists
- Origin of UQP: $1.81M+ in custom-quoted deposits across 3,305+ clients from Tattoo.Agency studio booking & consultation pipelines (not quote.dev router volume)
- Done Agents — https://doneagents.com — agentic ops studio
- Tatted Up — https://try.tattoo.co — photoreal AI tattoo try-on for the Tattoo.co ecosystem; live MCP endpoint (/api/mcp), llms.txt, prepaid agentic-commerce tokens
- Agentic Portfolio Search — https://gavinbasuel.com/open-source/agentic-search — open-source (MIT) BM25 instant search + grounded Ask-AI for portfolios & docs
- Text Permanent — https://www.textpermanent.com/ — iMessage-first AI studio ops
- Spaceship CLI & MCP — registrar toolkit (58 ops / 45 endpoints)
- DoneSearch pSEO Engine — programmatic SEO / GEO-AEO workflow engine
- MP4 Factory — https://mp4factory-com.vercel.app — agent video cut/caption/brand harness
- rs-sdk — https://bots.whop.site/swarm — agentic game SDK + live swarm tracker I built to monitor my AI agents in-game (repos: https://git.cafe/rs-sdk/palanti-rs-sdk · https://git.cafe/rs-sdk/rs-quest-speedruns)
- InkCut — agentic tattoo video editor (in build; no public demo URL)
- video-editor-tools — https://git.cafe/done/video-editor-tools — public OSS agent video toolkit
- GitCafe Agent Toolkit — https://git.cafe/1gmedia/unofficial-toolkit-gitcafe
- Hoplite Unofficial Toolkit — Hoplite DX helpers

## Experience
- InkHub (https://inkhubhq.com) — IT / Marketing / Growth Operator, Pasadena, CA, 2019–2021 — holding company for tattoo studios (portfolio included Skin Design Tattoos, Manifest Studio, Big Sleeps Studio); multi-location CRM & lead-to-consultation pipelines (Funnel Design + SMS), Notion artist payout & booking ops, local SEO / Google Business Profile and paid social. The operator years directly inspired Tattoo.co, Text Permanent, tattoo.dev, uqp.dev and quote.dev after relocating to Las Vegas in 2023.
- 1G Media Inc. — Founder, 2017–present
- Tattoo Company — https://tattoo.co · https://tattoo.dev · https://partners.tattoo.dev · https://docs.tattoo.dev · https://tattoo.agency · https://brand.tattoo.co

## Ventures & client work
- 1G Media Inc. — founder (product, engineering, UX, growth)
- Tattoo Company — https://tattoo.co · https://tattoo.dev · https://partners.tattoo.dev · https://docs.tattoo.dev · https://tattoo.agency · https://brand.tattoo.co
- Tattoo Products — house brand + WL line (backlog / high)
- Funnel Design — https://app.funnel-design.com (custom CLI + Funnel MCP)
- Fit Club Las Vegas — https://www.fitclubvegas.com/
- Shopify Partner · Ecommerce Growth Operator for Brands — conversion-engineered Shopify storefronts, CRO & full-funnel growth for recognized brands & operators (Jabbawockeez https://www.jbwkz.com/, Farmers Market Hawaii, Fit Club Las Vegas; house collector storefront https://supa-cards.com mentioned last)
- Jabbawockeez — https://www.jbwkz.com/
- Aloha Tattoo — https://alohatattoo.com · TNT Tattoo — https://tnt.ink · Wailana Tattoo — https://www.wailanatattoo.com
- Tattoo.Agency · Studio & artist websites · SEO/AEO — https://alohatattoo.com/ · https://tnt.ink/ · https://www.wailanatattoo.com/ · https://www.basilicatattoo.com/ · https://www.yudeltattoos.com/ · https://ohanatattoo.ink/
- Farmers Market Hawaii — https://farmersmarkethawaii.com
- Broadband Consultants — https://broadbandconsultants.com
- KORE Kompounds — https://korekompounds.com
- HSOC Cyber — https://hsoccyber.org (historical pilot)

## Stats
- 87 active repos on git.cafe
- 37 persistent AI agents orchestrated
- 30+ live web & AI properties
- UW '18 B.A. Science, Technology & Society

## Wild Side Projects & The Las Vegas Network
### 13 Live Las Vegas & Niche Discovery Properties
- https://www.formula.vegas/ · https://remote.vegas · https://bikelasvegas.com · https://racelasvegas.com
- https://vegasbytrain.com · https://temperature.vegas · https://snowboard.vegas · https://meat.vegas
- https://childcarevegas.com · https://supa-cards.com · https://vegas.domains
- https://vegashomeowner.vercel.app · https://capturedvegas-com.vercel.app

### Wild Agentic Side Quests & Open Source
- rs-sdk — https://bots.whop.site/swarm — agentic game SDK + live swarm tracker I built to monitor my AI agents in-game (repos: https://git.cafe/rs-sdk/palanti-rs-sdk · https://git.cafe/rs-sdk/rs-quest-speedruns)
- video-editor-tools — https://git.cafe/done/video-editor-tools
- unofficial-toolkit-gitcafe — https://git.cafe/1gmedia/unofficial-toolkit-gitcafe

## Writing & Dispatches (Sanity CMS)
- Archive: https://gavinbasuel.com/writing
- RSS: https://gavinbasuel.com/feed.xml
- Studio: https://gavinbasuel.sanity.studio/
- What Happens When a 7-Figure Shopify Operator Gets Codex & Grok Bot — https://gavinbasuel.com/writing/when-a-7-figure-operator-gets-codex-and-grok-bot — X → Blog — What happened less than 30 days after setting up KOBEES founder Kobe Harris — a non-coder shipping tens of thousands of orders daily out of Nevada — with Codex and Grok Bot.
- Stopping the Copy-Paste Relay: Connecting Multi-Agent Fleets Over Tailscale with Agent Tincan — https://gavinbasuel.com/writing/agent-tincan-tailscale-multi-agent-relay — X → Blog — How to stop being the human copy-paste router between Grok Bot, Claude Code, Codex, Dot, and Muse by wiring them together over a private Tailscale mesh with Agent Tincan.
- The Las Vegas Lines for the Personal AI Agent Race: Distribution Beats the Demo — https://gavinbasuel.com/writing/vegas-lines-personal-ai-agent-race — X → Blog — Pricing the personal AI agent race from a Las Vegas sportsbook: why default seat distribution beats the flashiest computer demo across Muse, Spark, Dot, Grok Bot, Hermes, OpenClaw, Manus, and Claude.
- Grok 3 First Impressions: Hands-On Builder Walkthrough — https://gavinbasuel.com/writing/grok-3-first-impressions — YouTube → Blog — Hands-on builder breakdown testing Grok 3 across real research, product reasoning, and day-to-day operator workflows.
- GPT for Sheets: Shipping 1,000+ Structured Shopify Product Descriptions — https://gavinbasuel.com/writing/gpt-for-sheets-1000-shopify-product-descriptions — YouTube → Blog — Video walkthrough on building a structured GPT + Google Sheets merchandising pipeline to generate and QA 1,000+ Shopify product descriptions without losing conversion quality.

## My Tech Stack Rotation
Languages: English, Systems Architecture & Agent Orchestration — I don't hand-type boilerplate; I direct multi-agent fleets into production TypeScript.

### Daily Agent Harness & Forge
- Grok Bot (persistent Linux multi-agent fleet)
- Claude Code & Codex (parallel autonomous execution)
- Hoplite.sh — https://hoplite.sh/
- git.cafe — https://git.cafe/
- Orgo — https://www.orgo.ai/ (cloud computer for Done Agents)
- Hermes Agent — https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/

### AI, Context & Media Primitives
- Mastra.ai — https://mastra.ai/
- Context.dev — https://www.context.dev/
- HyperFrames — https://hyperframes.studio/
- Treg — https://treg.to/

### Infra, Data & Shipping Runtime
TypeScript · Vercel · Convex · Cloudflare Workers (Hono + D1 + Durable Objects) · Next.js · Astro · Drizzle · Zod · Stripe · Shopify · PostHog · Paper