Over the past year since I started working on Photo Intelligence, which then turned into Gumnut, it’s been something of a side project for me. My day job for the past 3 years has been working at TheGP, a VC firm in San Francisco, embedding with portfolio companies in various roles from Software Engineer to CTO to accelerate their progress or turn them around.
I just finished my latest embedded engagement, as CTO of Glade.ai — and I’ve decided to leave VC to work on Gumnut full time — so you should start seeing a lot more progress and updates from me.
While my work with Glade absolutely slowed progress on Gumnut, I’ve continued to work on it in the background. Gumnut now has a fully-functional MCP App, which allows MCP Hosts like Claude to embed Gumnut’s UI directly in chats.
Gumnut’s MCP App in Claude, faces blurred for privacy
I’ve also made great improvements in compatibility with the Immich ecosystem. The Immich web and mobile apps are both functional and reliable, though they don’t include the full set of Immich features like partner sharing.
Album created by Claude, displayed in Immich, faces blurred for privacy
Even with the new focus on agentic interfaces, Gumnut still retains the original vision of creating an open ecosystem around photos, so Gumnut’s APIs, SDKs, and MCP can continue to be integrated anywhere — whether that be ChatGPT, OpenClawd, or your business workflows.
In the near future, I’m working toward building out additional photo intelligence capabilities on the backend, in order to expand the range of things that agents can easily do with your photos, as well as scaling out the asset serving pipeline. Also, my wife says that I really need to replace the logo with something that actually looks like a gum nut…
Getting Involved
Building this all from scratch has been an exciting journey for me, but I love working with and talking to other people interested in the space.
If you have a background in B2B Sales / GTM and a strong interest in the photos space, I’d be interested in working with you. I’ve been focused on building the platform and use cases, but haven’t spent much time on potentially commercializing it.
If you have a background in Applied AI as it relates to photos and videos, I’d love to chat with you. While I believe my background and experience gives me the fairly unique ability to build a platform for Photo Intelligence from scratch, I’d love to learn more from people with deeper experience on the AI side.
If you have personal or business use cases for Photo Intelligence, I’d love to hear about them, especially if I haven’t mentioned them in this newsletter in the past.
If you’d like to try building something with the platform, I’d love to hear from you. I’m not making anything self-serve right now, both because the platform isn’t ready for scaled consumption and because I want to understand everyone’s use cases better and work with them directly as needed.
In all of the cases above, drop me a comment below, message me on LinkedIn, or send me an email.
Special thanks
Thank you everyone for continuing to read my posts, follow along, and engage with me on this journey! Also, a special thanks this week to Taggart Gorman, who built much of the Immich compatibility layer for Gumnut over the past several months.
