Bear Brown & Co. · Boston
Nik Bear Brown
Professor. Builder. Connector.
I audit Claude tools and publish the receipts, build AI-era software for people who need it, and hand the best engineering graduates I teach to the companies that should be hiring them. Four doors below — take whichever one you came for.
Where to go
Four things live here, and they are not the same thing.
Agents
One purpose, many implementations
Explore shared agent designs, inspect n8n sources, and find implementation plans and assistant prompts for building in other forms.
Explore agentsClaude
The Claude directory
The hand-audited listings, sitting on top of the corpus-wide scan. Every entry installed, risk-scanned, and signed with the commit sha it ran against. No stars. No copy-click rankings.
Browse the directoryConsulting
Consulting
Bespoke AI for startups that need to move — as consultant, equity advisor, and talent connector. No bloated retainers, no generalists, no team of five where one will do.
How I workCorpus
The corpus
What the corpus is, and how a repository gets into it: what the checker reads, how it routes on discovered capability rather than declared type, and — said plainly — what it does not assess. The part most directories leave out.
How it worksSkills
Skills you can read first
Written procedures Claude loads when your request matches. Search by the job you need done, see how each is built, and read the whole text before you install it.
Browse skillsTalent
Talent
I teach thousands of students. The best of them still spend close to a year landing a big-tech job — and you need something built now. I connect the two ends of that year.
Hire them awayThe Claude directory — by component type
A plugin is just components packaged together. The directory is sliced by what each component actually is, so you can go straight to the kind you need — or assemble your own bundle and have it audited.
Get in touch
Something to build, or someone to hire?
Email a rough description of what you want built — or of the role you are trying to fill. Short call, honest scope, no pitch deck.
Nik Bear Brown, PhD · Associate Teaching Professor, College of Engineering, Northeastern University