Builder, designer, founder of Marz Innovations
I build systems, brands, and the occasional thing that exists purely because I wanted it to. The professional side lives at the firm. This is the personal side: the record, the stories behind the work, the builds, and the music.
- 2005the year I started Marz Innovations
- 20+small businesses on one flat monthly fee, year after year
- 200+concerts and events I ran at the arena in Boise
- 243%online giving went up, year one at The Idaho Foodbank
What's here
The resume
Four eras, one food bank, a couple hundred shows, and the firm I built out of all of it. The whole record, with a PDF for the people who want a file.
Read itThe blog
Stories, build logs, and the odd essay, in my own words. Images, music, words.
PostsThe music
What comes off the rig. An iPad running a Korg M1, a laptop playing along over Wi-Fi MIDI, originals on the way.
ListenThe store
On the bench. Prints and a few other things made because I wanted them to exist.
On the bench
What I built this year
April 1 to now, mostly alone, mostly at night. Not a highlight reel. The count, pulled from the map I run the work out of, and all of it running.
| The piece | What it is | By the numbers |
|---|---|---|
| The platform behind Virtucom | A managed-services line that actually runs: websites, content, email, print, phone and chat answering, reviews, booking, newsletters, digital business cards, a print-on-demand factory, tech support. One monthly fee on the client's side; a fleet on mine. | Six servers and a hosting box, watched around the clock. |
| The template line | WordPress themes and plugins written from scratch for the sites I run, with their own update server, so a fix lands everywhere at once. | Four themes, seven plugins, all self-updating. |
| The projects | Everything on the map, from an agent that answers the phone to an engine that writes grounded news posts for client sites, with a canonical record kept for each one. | 132 on the map. 74 running. 56 started since April 1. |
| The civic data sites | Purple Voice and Republican Idaho: every vote, every bill, every legislator, pulled on a schedule and laid out so a person can read it. | Two sites, updated nightly. |
| Glitch City | A fictional city with a real community, its own token, six districts each with a voice, and a theme built to render it. | Six districts live. |
Counted on October 24, 2026. The map is the ledger; when it moves, this moves.
Builds
What's out the door and what's on the bench. Each one speaks for itself on its own site.
Virtucom
The firm's managed services line, built out this year into a working platform: websites, content, email, print, phone and chat answering, reviews, booking and tech support for small businesses, handled for one monthly fee.
RunningMarz Innovations
The firm itself. Private and referral-built since 2005. The professional side of everything on this page lives there.
Since 2005Umpqua Studios
My photography. White Sands, the Umpqua, the falls. Prints sell from this site for now; the studio gets its own door when it's ready.
Prints comingPurple Voice
Every U.S. senator and representative, every roll-call vote, every bill in the current Congress, in one place you can actually read.
OngoingGlitch City
A fictional city with a real community, six districts on Base, run as a live experiment in story and belonging.
In buildGlitch Mob
My first code and my first NFT project. The crew Glitch City grew out of. The collection on OpenSea.
Shipped
Get in touch
The firm's door is at marzinnovations.com. This one is mine. Stories, builds, the music, a question about any of it: send it through the form and it comes straight to me.