The Portfolio
7 Products. 4 Markets. 1 Person.
01
CodeCityApp
Learn to code by building a city. Gamified challenges, live leaderboards, and a community of builders — from total beginner to job-ready.
02
DaBarBible
Ask the Bible. Hear His voice. An AI scripture companion that meets you where you are — with wisdom, reflection, and truth from God's Word.
03
Parley Finance
Your bills, negotiated. Your debt, defeated. Paste a bill, get a script. Turn financial stress into confirmed, trackable wins.
04
ThinkYTimes
Learning, not scrolling. AI-powered daily news podcasts for grades 3–12. Real current events in a format students actually want to hear.
05
FetchAIPal
AI that teaches students to think — not just answer. COPPA-compliant homework help, media literacy, coding, and Spanish for NJ classrooms. Safe. Standards-aligned. Built for schools.
06
Path-Foundry
Practice the interview before it counts. Rehearse answers under pressure with an AI interviewer tailored to your role and industry, and get feedback on what you said and how you said it — plus a free resume score. In English and Spanish.
07
ReciboPro
Invoices, sent on WhatsApp. Describe the job and send your client a clear payment request in about 60 seconds — no signup, no app, free for 3 invoices a month. Built for freelancers and small businesses across the US and Latin America.
The Stats
Built Different
The Engine
How one person runs a portfolio: ARIA
ARIA is the autonomous agent behind CodeCityApp, DaBarBible, Parley Finance, Path-Foundry and ReciboPro. It handles outreach, content and growth experiments — and it was built to be governed, not just to be fast.
Runs the work
Researches, drafts, publishes and measures across the portfolio, then feeds what it learns into the next round.
Asks before it acts
Anything public-facing or irreversible waits for a human sign-off. Routine work runs on its own; consequential work does not.
Can be stopped
Kill switches pause outbound activity per product without taking the rest of the system down.
Keeps a record
Every incident and fix is logged with the evidence that proved it, so the system gets more reliable instead of just busier.
Illustrative views of how ARIA works.
Capabilities
What Mike Builds
Full-Stack Product Engineering
From idea to App Store — end to end. React, TypeScript, Supabase, Tailwind, Lovable, iOS. Ships production software without a team.
AI Systems & Automation
Builds autonomous agents that work while he sleeps — AI sales pipelines, scripture AI, content engines, and orchestrated multi-step workflows using Claude and Anthropic's API.
Cross-Market Product Strategy
Designs and positions products for completely different user psychologies — students learning to code, believers seeking scripture, families managing debt, professionals pivoting careers. Four markets, four distinct strategies.
Solo Scaling
7 live products. 2 years. 0 co-founders. Knows how to build lean, automate aggressively, and ship things that work — without a team slowing it down.
Behind the Vision
"Built and shipped 7 apps across EdTech, Faith, Finance, and Career Tech — solo, in 2 years."
Mike Clarke
Founder · Elevare Digital
Location
North Brunswick, NJ
Inquiries
mike@codecityapp.com