Selected Works — Johnathan Lightfoot

01 Automation Systems

Production automation built to survive contact with a real operation.

A secure self-hosted automation stack a small team can actually run without a platform vendor.

Bulletproof Automation Lab

Role: Architect & developer
Stack: n8n · Traefik · Docker · Gotenberg
Year: 2026

Edge

Traefik Routing and certificates

Orchestrate

n8n Workflow engine

Services

Gotenberg Document generation

Host

Self-hosted Data stays where you put it

Self-hosted stack — edge, orchestration, services

Private repository

The unglamorous half of self-hosting: exports, update records, safety scans and documented restores.

n8n Self-Hosted Ops

Role: Architect & operator
Stack: PowerShell · n8n · Ops tooling
Year: 2026

Running

Live n8n instance

Record

Workflow exports

Update records

Safety scans

Prove

Rehearsed restore What makes the rest real

System flow

Private repository

A workflow-driven inspection and reporting system built around the realities of remote property ownership in Ghana.

Ghana Site Handover Inspection

Role: Architect & developer
Stack: JavaScript · Workflow automation · Reporting
Year: 2026

On site

Structured inspection Same evidence every time

Capture

Workflow Built for patchy connectivity

Report

Owner-ready report

Abroad

Remote owner decides

System flow

Private repository

Automating the response pipeline around inbound deal flow without removing the judgment step.

Deal Reply

Role: Architect & developer
Stack: Workflow automation · APIs
Year: 2026

Inbound

Opportunity arrives

Prepare

Draft reply Automated

Judge

Human decision Where consequences are real

Send

Response

System flow

Private repository

02 Platforms & Developer Tools

Infrastructure other builders build on top of.

A private operational command center where agents prepare, a human decides, and only approved workflows act.

Johnathan OS

Role: Architect & developer
Stack: Next.js · Supabase · n8n
Year: 2026

Gather

Agents Collect context and draft the work

Decide

Human review The only step that can authorise

Act

Approved workflow Executes only what was approved

Authority boundary — approval is structural, not a convention

Private repository

A developer-focused Bible data platform giving applications and automations structured, predictable scripture access.

ScriptureFlow

Role: Architect & developer
Stack: JSON API · Static endpoints · Multilingual data
Year: 2026

Source

Multilingual scripture data

Normalise

Structured verses & chapters

Serve

Static JSON endpoints Cacheable, predictable

Consume

n8n community node

Apify actor

Applications

System flow

Private repository

A community n8n node that puts scripture data directly inside other people’s workflows.

n8n Nodes for ScriptureFlow

Role: Author & maintainer
Stack: TypeScript · n8n
Year: 2026

Source

ScriptureFlow API

Bridge

Community node Published to n8n

Use

Builder workflow No HTTP request written

System flow

TypeScript Updated June 2026

A standalone Apify actor making the scripture dataset reachable from a second automation ecosystem.

ScriptureFlow Bible Data Actor

Role: Author & maintainer
Stack: TypeScript · Apify
Year: 2026

Authoritative

One data layer

Surfaces

REST endpoints

n8n node

Apify actor

Reach

Two ecosystems Meet builders where they are

System flow

TypeScript Updated June 2026

03 Applied AI

AI aimed at a specific, constrained, real problem.

The site you are reading — built with AI assistance under constraints strict enough that the build fails rather than ships something hollow.

This Portfolio Site

Role: Architect & developer
Stack: Astro · TypeScript · Claude Code
Year: 2026

Draft

AI-assisted build Fast, and not yet trusted

Gate

Contrast WCAG AA, both themes

Completeness No lesson, no exhibit

No invention Unsupplied facts are omitted

Decide

Non-zero exit The build refuses rather than ships

Publish

What survived

Build gates — what the site refuses to publish

Astro Updated August 2026

An AI assistant for drafting and checking scripture study material in low-resource languages.

Every Tongue

Role: Architect & developer
Stack: Python · AI models · Language data
Year: 2026

Input

Source text Low-resource language

Assist

AI drafting

AI checking

Verify

Human review Assumed, not optional

Output

Study material

System flow

Python Updated July 2026

AI that improves how someone responds rather than responding on their behalf.

Reply Coach

Role: Architect & developer
Stack: TypeScript · AI models
Year: 2026

Input

Your draft You write it

Coach

AI review Suggests, does not replace

Output

Your reply, improved Authorship stays with you

System flow

Private repository

Practical guidance on AI use aimed at practitioners rather than policy committees.

Ethical AI Guide

Role: Author & developer
Stack: JavaScript
Year: 2024

Usually

Policy document Read by nobody shipping

Instead

The implementation choice Where ethics is decided

Result

Changed behaviour

System flow

Private repository

04 Teaching & Enablement

Work whose product is a more capable person.

n8n Foundations — teaching automation as an engineering discipline rather than a library of copied templates.

Bulletproof Automations Training

Role: Author & instructor
Stack: HTML · Curriculum · n8n
Year: 2026

Start here

Required outcome What must be true when this is done

Work backward

Workflow design

Tools & controls

Arrive at

Skills to build it

Outcome-first method — the order the course is actually taught in

HTML Updated July 2026

A study system for the AKYLADE AI Security Foundation exam, built around retention rather than content volume.

Akylade ExamReady

Role: Product lead
Stack: Study platform · AI Security · NIST AI RMF
Year: 2024

Domain

AI risk management

NIST AI RMF

Method

Spaced recall Flashcards, quizzes, planner

Measure

Progress tracking

Outcome

Retrieval under pressure

System flow

Updated October 2024

A home for structured course material, so teaching is a system rather than a series of one-off sessions.

AI Course Hub

Role: Architect & developer
Stack: TypeScript
Year: 2025

Scattered

Drives, inboxes, sessions

Centralise

One source of truth Versioned and owned

Reuse

Cohort after cohort

System flow

Private repository

A ministry study platform built to be run by the people who use it, not by the person who built it.

Faith In Motion Study Platform

Role: Architect & developer
Stack: HTML · Digital lessons · Scripture study
Year: 2026

Build

Study platform Lessons and resources

Hand over

Community operates it Designed in from the start

Outlives

The builder involvement

System flow

Private repository

A year-long reading plan for a canon that most devotional software simply does not support.

Ethiopian Canon Devotional 365

Role: Architect & developer
Stack: TypeScript · Reading plans
Year: 2026

Assumption

Canon in the data model Decides who is served

Plan

365-day reading

Track

Notes

Bookmarks

Progress

System flow

Private repository

Also in progress

Expat Ghana Daily Brief Automated personalized briefing combining weather, exchange rates, international and Ghana news, and AI-generated summaries.