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Twenty minutes in your own AI, and you keep the report. hanlon.agency/fit", "tags": [ "hanlon", "fit-check", "free" ] }, { "title": "A free 60-minute call about where your business stands with AI.", "tags": [ "hanlon", "discovery", "free" ] }, { "title": "I redesign how a small service business works so AI does the routine and people do the craft. 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My company. I help small Nordic service businesses use AI well. hanlon.agency", "LifeOS. My personal AI operating system, a fork of Daniel Miessler's LifeOS. Fixes go back upstream.", "ecal and emal. Small command line tools for Apple Calendar and Proton Mail that my assistant drives.", "hjbrandt.me and hjbrandt.cv. My own sites, redesigned this autumn." ], "creative": [ "Hans Hug. DJ sets, over a decade of Oslo and Copenhagen nights. The mixes are on SoundCloud as Hans Hug." ], "personal": [ "Bouldering and climbing projects in Oslo.", "Skateboarding and surfing when the season allows." ] }, "last_updated": "2026-11-05T11:10:48.234Z", "sync_status": {}, "resume": [ { "period": "2025–now", "role": "Founder", "org": "Hanlon", "summary": "I help small service businesses hand the routine to AI and keep the craft with their people." }, { "period": "2022–2024", "role": "Senior Designer", "org": "Gyldendal Rettsdata", "summary": "Led the design system work on the Rettsdata product team." }, { "period": "2020–2022", "role": "UI/UX Designer", "org": "Vev", "summary": "Created Vev's visual language and built the Figma component library." }, { "period": "2018–2020", "role": "Front-end developer", "org": "Making Waves", "summary": "Frontend consultant for Entra, SATS, SAS and the Ocean Data Foundation." }, { "period": "2010–2012", "role": "Community Planner", "org": "Very Agency", "summary": "Built Burn Energy as a brand in Norway's snowboard and skateboard scenes." }, { "period": "2006–2014", "role": "Professional athlete", "org": "Oakley, DaKine, Burn Energy", "summary": "Freestyle skier in slopestyle. European Open, world cups, World Championships, ski films." }, { "period": "ongoing", "role": "DJ", "org": "Hans Hug", "summary": "Over a decade of clubs, bars, basements and galleries in Oslo and Copenhagen." } ], "resume_link": "https://hjbrandt.cv", "served_at": "2026-11-05T11:23:37.476Z" }