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.
Claude
The Claude corpus
A corpus-wide scan of public repositories, and a hand-audited directory sitting on top of it. Every listing installed, risk-scanned, and signed with the commit sha it ran against. No stars. No copy-click rankings.
Browse the corpusCriteria
Listing criteria
What the checker actually 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.
Read the criteriaConsulting
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 workTalent
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 corpus 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