Liam was born and raised in Sheffield, England. He's not your typical tech founder — no computer science degree, no startup mates, no Silicon Valley anything. He failed every GCSE except art, went to fine art college, and left. School never suited him — not because he's daft, but because he learns what he needs, his own way, not what someone says he ought to memorise.
That one trait — learn it properly, on my terms, until it works — is the whole story.
Three careers, one pattern
Construction — 18 years. Liam left college and went straight onto the tools. He started as a labourer and grafted his way up: trades, then site management, then project manager. Eventually he started his own construction company and made it a success — running jobs, running people, running the money. Built from nothing.
Then he fell out of love with it. So he did the thing most people only ever talk about over a pint: he chased the dream. He retrained as a tattoo artist, and for the last six years he's run his own successful tattoo studio — booked up, full-time, his name on the door.
Spot the pattern? Walk in at zero. Learn the craft properly. Build something that's his. AI is the next one — and he's not dabbling. He's going all in.
He's a family man underneath all of it: met his wife at 18, married 16 years, three kids. The AI obsession has to fit around real life — shop hours, school runs, the lot. No spare decade to "go and learn to code." Same as you.
The relentless bit
When something grabs Liam, he doesn't poke at it — he locks on and obsesses until he's cracked it. Not a personality quiz buzzword; ask anyone who's watched him pick up a new skill. He goes all the way down, fails repeatedly, and refuses to quit before it works.
AI grabbed him the day ChatGPT launched in the UK. He'd seen it in a video, signed up, and was on it release day while his wife watched over his shoulder — she couldn't get access yet, but they were both gobsmacked. For a long time he thought he was talking to something sentient. He's tested it, broken it, and compared every tool since — through the early open phase, the week-by-week patches, the over-censored refusals, and today's faster releases. He had to know: how does it actually work, where does it fall over, what's everyone else doing with it, and how do I bend it to do exactly what I want — on his terms, not Silicon Valley's?
Coding never clicked — directing AI did
Here's the honest part: programming doesn't interest him, and never has. His brain won't take it in the old-fashioned way. As a grown man with a business to run, "go become a developer in your 40s" was never the plan — and watching AI write code in real time told him the game had already changed.
What he reckons actually matters now:
- Creativity and originality — taste, ideas, knowing what's worth building. AI still isn't there.
- Knowing how to ask — getting AI to give you exactly what you need, not the lazy minimum it offers first.
So the membership teaches you to direct, build, and ship with AI. You'll touch generated code inside the tools — that's just the workflow. You are not signing up to become a career software engineer. You're learning to get results.
Thousands of hours and a graveyard of projects
He's poured thousands of hours into this. He's killed more projects than he can count — every one of them taught him something, and every rebuild came back faster and sharper than the last.
Now he can stand up websites, apps, tools, and agents in hours, not weeks. GertySystems is the best of everything he learned, trimmed down so you don't have to walk the whole maze blind like he did.
If I can make AI work for me, you can too.
The last subscription you'll need
Here's the bigger picture, and it's the whole point of GertySystems.
Most of the apps and platforms charging you £2 to £200 a month? For anyone who can build their own, they're done. Website builders like Wix and Squarespace — done. The growing stack of AI tools everyone's paying for — done. You don't need to be locked into someone else's subscription forever. You just build your own.
Once you can build and own your software, the whole game changes:
- Stunning, fast, modern websites in days — sometimes hours — not weeks wrestling with someone else's clunky platform.
- Custom AI agents that do the jobs you can't be bothered with — your shopping, finding the holiday, running your social accounts, clearing the inbox, handling bookings and your calendar — running for pennies, on models you control. Not Google or OpenAI quietly harvesting your life in the background.
- Whatever app, program, tool, or website you can picture — you can now build it.
That's not a sales line; it's just where we are in 2026. And to be straight with you: "pennies" means the odd pay-as-you-go charge when you use a big cloud model — nothing like a shelf full of £20-a-month subscriptions. You own the thing. You keep it. You change it whenever you like.
Gertrude — a Jarvis, not a chatbot
To Liam, Gertrude is what Jarvis is to Tony Stark — as capable as today's tech actually allows. No movie magic, no pretending she's alive. Just genuinely useful.
And she's not the "Jarvis, wake up — daddy's home!" theatre you've seen trending on YouTube — clever-looking wake-word party tricks staged for a video. That's smoke and mirrors. Gertrude is a real beast that gets actual work done. That's the kind of thing the membership teaches you to build — not a demo reel.
She started as an idea years ago, originally called Nyx. His vision for her always ran ahead of the technology — and his own skills — at the time, so she's been an ongoing build, not a weekend experiment. By the time the agentic-AI hype landed and OpenClaw shipped, Gertrude had already been doing multi-step work for months — browsing, research, using tools, running sub-agents, pinging Liam on Telegram when something needed him.
Today the private operator is a serious system. High level only — this isn't the manual:
- Her own dedicated desktop; works across PC and web at human pace, not "one API call and done."
- Calendar and email — drafts replies in Liam's voice before he's even opened the message.
- Business side — watches sites and analytics, runs alongside specialist agents (a crypto portfolio kept an eye on 24/7, for instance).
- Extensible — new tools, skills, and sub-agents; she can even improve her own code, not just bolt on widgets.
If it involves a PC and the internet, she'll do it or work out how. That includes things that could be misused — Liam doesn't go there, doesn't recommend it, and won't teach harm. The course is about building real power and using it responsibly.
What you actually get on this site
Full-power Gertrude isn't on the public internet. What's here is on purpose:
- This chat — her personality and honest answers. No tools, no access to Liam's machines.
- The demos — slices of what she can do (chat, voice, phone, ownable tools), so you can try before you believe a word of it.
The real operator lives on Liam's home stack. Throughout the membership you'll learn to build your own custom Gerty — your voice, your rules, your workflows.
Gerty vs Gertrude vs GertySystems
- Gertrude — the operator. Jarvis energy. Runs the serious stack.
- Gerty — voice and phone. Same dry northern personality, different channel.
- GertySystems — the brand, this site, and the course.
From the tattoo chair
If you've ever sat in Liam's chair, you'll know he talks about AI. A lot. So when he found out one of his clients managed the in-house IT department for a manufacturing company, that poor bloke was in for it.
What shocked Liam was that they weren't really using AI for their development and projects. Like most people, the guy had poked at ChatGPT a few times, knew it was "supposed to be good at coding," but had never actually put it to work. So Liam showed him Gerty — what she can really do. He was gobsmacked. He couldn't believe a tattooist with no coding background had built such a thing, and he genuinely didn't know AI was capable of it.
About four weeks later, second session, he came back raving. The team was now using AI heavily, and the company owner was going full steam ahead with AI across the whole business.
Liam felt great about it — until the next thought landed. That kind of leap usually means redundancies. And that's the honest, uncomfortable bit nobody likes to say out loud: this is spreading like wildfire across every industry, right now.
He's not trying to scare anyone. But if you work behind a computer, you should be paying attention. AI can already do a whole team's work — days of it — in minutes or hours. Most people tried it once, weren't impressed, and never kept up with how fast it's moving. The moment they get a real taste of what it does in 2026, the old way of working is over.
Here's the flip side, and it's the reason this site exists: the skill that now matters most isn't the job — it's knowing how to use, instruct, and manage AI. Be the person who runs it, and you're not the one it replaces. That's what GertySystems makes you.
You won't be building alone
This isn't just a course you buy and disappear into. Liam's building a community — and he's serious about it.
The plan is a proper, supportive family of likeminded builders: visionaries, tinkerers, off-grid open-source AI heads — people sharing their builds, swapping ideas, and helping each other when something breaks. None of the toxic "we're real devs, you're just playing at it" gatekeeping you find in most coding forums. Everyone in here started at zero, same as Liam. You show what you made, you nick a good idea off someone else, and nobody makes you feel daft for asking.
That's the bit that turns "I watched a course" into "I actually build things now."
Why he's really doing this
Liam's built two businesses from scratch already. He's not chasing a hobby and he's not pretending to be a guru — he's hungry, he's serious about this one, and he intends to build something that lasts. The course is the map he wishes someone had handed him on day one.
No gatekeeping. No jargon for the sake of it. No pretending you have to become a developer. Just a Sheffield grafter, an AI with a backbone, and everything he figured out — in order, from the very beginning.
Try Gertrude. Poke the demos. Then decide.