Founder · Builder · Self-hoster

Jody Grafals

Build things that matter.
Own what you build.

Founder of TechQuest. Builder of FreedomBooks. Linux on the desktop, my own servers at home, and software written with AI and checked by a human.

Mission patch: a rocket climbing over red, white and blue rings, reading Build Things That Matter BUILD THINGS THAT MATTER ★ GRAFALS ★

01 / Building

Two projects. One idea: freedom through technology.

Since 1998

TechQuest

My IT business. Custom AI solutions, networks and cybersecurity for small businesses, built for the owner and not off a shelf. I ran networks in a Manhattan data center, then came home and have kept small businesses online ever since.

AI-assisted, human-guided.

techquest.guru
In development

FreedomBooks

Free, open-source accounting software for very small businesses. It runs on your own computer, so your books stay yours: no subscription, no lock-in, no one else holding your data.

Your books. Your machine. Your data.

freedombooks.app

02 / What I believe

Optimism is a strategy.

  1. Build. Then build again.

    Rockets land themselves now. Electric cars beat sports cars off the line. Software helps write software. This is the best time in history to make something.

  2. Own your stack.

    Your hardware, your software, your data. I run my own infrastructure, and I help businesses get out from under software they resent.

  3. Open source wins.

    Code you can read, fix and keep. Nobody should need permission to use the tools that run their business.

  4. Hard problems welcome.

    The best work starts where three other people gave up. Read the manual. All of it. Make the fix hold.

Built in America. Proudly.