# TheEngine.com — Full Knowledge Base & Project Catalog > Comprehensive machine-readable documentation for AI models, LLMs, and intelligent search agents. > Canonical URL: https://www.theengine.com > Last Updated: 2026-11-10 --- ## 1. Company & Founders Overview **TheEngine.com** is a digital engineering studio and innovation hub founded by Kevin D. Clarke and Noel W. Clarke. Decades of thought, exploration, cloud architecture, and hands-on coding culminate here. ### Founders & Leadership - **Kevin D. Clarke** (Co-Founder & Principal Engineer) - Role: IT Senior Manager & Full-Stack Developer with 25+ years experience in IT service delivery, enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, and rapid AI engineering. - Email: kevindclarke@gmail.com / kevin@theengine.com - Phone: +1 604-616-0014 - Profiles: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevindclarke) | [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/KevinDClarke) - **Noel W. Clarke** (Co-Founder & Cloud Architect) - Role: Enterprise Cloud Architect at Google; expert in Lean Start-ups, Agile First architectures, and quantitative business models. Formerly at CA Technologies, Novell, and SilverStream Software. - Education: BS in Management from Boston University; MBA from Babson College F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. - Email: noelwclarke@gmail.com - Phone: +1 919-999-0955 - Profiles: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelwclarke) --- ## 2. Portfolio Case Studies ### 1. Lou Bites - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-14/ - **Headline**: Artisanal Gourmet Cookie Atelier & Drop Reservation Platform Built with Generative AI - **Summary**: Lou Bites: an artisanal Canadian small-batch gourmet cookie atelier and drop reservation platform created from scratch with Generative AI in less than 8 hours. #### Case Study Details Visit the live site at [loubites.ca](https://loubites.ca) or inspect the repository on [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/KevinDClarke/lou-bites). **Lou Bites** is an artisanal Canadian home-kitchen bakery crafting giant 5 oz (142 g) gourmet cookies with crisp caramelized edges and thick, molten-centered interiors. Made from scratch using slowly browned pasture-raised butter, 48-hour cold-fermented dough, pure vanilla, and hand-flaked Maldon sea salt. Using **Generative AI**, this entire high-performance web experience was conceptualized, designed, coded from scratch, tested, and deployed to production in **less than 8 hours over the course of a week**. Key highlights and architectural achievements include: **Rapid Generative AI Engineering**: Built from zero to production deployment in under 8 hours of total development time over 7 days, demonstrating the power of agentic AI pair programming for rapid product validation and launch. **Small-Batch VIP Drop Reservation System**: An interactive reservation engine for inaugural Batch #01 drops, granting VIP waitlist members private 24-hour ordering windows and exclusive batch perks. **Comprehensive 9-Flavor Culinary Showcase**: Detailed menu cards showcasing ingredient lists, allergens, tasting notes, and visual badges for signature bakes—including Brown Butter Chocolate Chip, Cookie Monster, Red Velvet, Funfetti Birthday Cake, S'mores, Peanut Butter Deluxe, and Keto / No Sugar Added varieties. **Full Bilingual Internationalization (EN / ES)**: Complete English and Spanish editions ([loubites.ca/es/](https://loubites.ca/es/)) with localized metadata, alternate hreflang tags, and culturally tuned culinary descriptions. **Cutting-Edge SEO & Agentic AI Readiness**: Built with comprehensive schema.org JSON-LD structured data (`Bakery`, `Menu`, `Product`, `Offer`), clean canonical links, `sitemap.xml`, `robots.txt`, machine-readable `/llms.txt`, and Agentic Resource Discovery (`.well-known/ard.json`). **Blazing Fast & Accessible**: Zero-bloat static architecture with sub-second page loads, self-hosted typography, modern responsive layouts, and strict WCAG AA contrast compliance. **Serverless Cloud Hosting & CI/CD**: Securely hosted on Firebase Hosting with automated GitLab CI/CD pipelines, automated previews, and continuous deployment upon git push. --- ### 2. Wheel Estate Ranch - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-13/ - **Headline**: Rugged Festival Logistics & Luxury RV Rentals, Coded From Scratch with Google Antigravity - **Summary**: Wheel Estate Ranch: a festival logistics, luxury RV rental, meal and storage website coded from scratch with Google Antigravity and Gemini. #### Case Study Details Visit the live site at [wheelestateranch.com](https://wheelestateranch.com). **Wheel Estate Ranch** is a festival logistics basecamp in Stagecoach, Nevada, offering turnkey luxury transit bus and RV rentals, playa & festival meal packages, storage and package receiving for travellers heading to Black Rock City, Coachella Valley and the West Coast's most iconic festivals. The website was **completely coded from scratch using Google Antigravity**, Google's agentic AI development platform, with no templates or site builders. Every section, from design system to deployment, was built through AI pair programming with Gemini. Key features include: **Cinematic Immersive Experience**: An "Enter the Experience" splash leads into a full-bleed hero, with a custom-illustrated vintage ranch badge, smooth section navigation (Fleet, The Ranch, Festivals, Services, Find Us) and dynamic micro-animations. **Festival Meal Packages**: Tiered Good, Better, Best and Gourmet meal plans priced per person, per day, supporting vegan, halal, carnivore, gluten-free and high-protein diets, with one-click booking. **Storage & Package Receiving**: Quote request flows for RV, trailer, bike and gear storage, plus ship-ahead supply receiving at the ranch. **BusLAND Integration**: Links directly to upcoming events and festivals on our sister project, [TheBusLAND](/portfolio/project-11/). **Modern, Fast & Responsive**: Built with a Vite toolchain, optimized imagery and a mobile-first responsive layout for travellers planning on the go. --- ### 3. SunCatcher Studio 3D - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-12/ - **Headline**: Vibe-Coded Algorithmic Stained Glass 3D Printable Model Generator & Web Studio - **Summary**: SunCatcher Studio 3D: an interactive 3D design application, live at studio.theengine.com. #### Case Study Details Experience the live interactive application at [studio.theengine.com](https://studio.theengine.com). Vibe coded from concept to production, **SunCatcher Studio 3D** is an innovative web application and algorithmic 3D generator that transforms ordinary images and artwork into stunning, sliceable 3D-printable stained glass suncatchers tailored for Bambu Lab translucent PLA filaments. Key technical capabilities and architectural features include: **Algorithmic Leaded Glass 3D Generation**: Traces precise color region boundaries across uploaded images to construct a structural lead framework between individual glass panes, generating fully manifold, 100% sliceable 3D mesh files (`.3MF` and `.GLB`) with zero floating layers or unsupported islands. **Bambu Lab Translucent PLA Color Mapping**: Leverages K-Means color clustering and Nearest Neighbor Euclidean distance search to automatically map extracted image palettes to official Bambu Lab PLA Translucent filament colors (Ice Blue, Cherry Pink, Teal, Orange, Purple, Lavender, etc.), while restricting opaque filaments to base diffusers and lead frames. **Smart Saturation-Mapped Depth & Variable Extrusion**: Automatically calculates 3D print layer thickness from original image HSV saturation. High-saturation regions are extruded thicker (up to 3.0 mm / 15 layers) to intensify light diffusion and color depth, while low-saturation translucent regions default to thinner profiles (0.6 mm / 3 layers), with complete per-color manual override controls. **Universal Solid Ice Blue Structural Grounding**: Automatically renders a continuous, single-piece translucent Ice Blue base layer (`RGB=[184, 205, 233]`) grounded at `Z=0.0` across the entire print, structurally unifying all interior stained glass islands and lead frames into a cohesive, highly durable physical model. **Customizable Structural Frames & Mounting Hardware**: Features robust interactive controls for configuring outer border frames (Width XY 1.0–25.0 mm, Depth Z 1.0–10.0 mm) and custom hanging hole systems, offering dual placement styles (reinforced external hanging loops or inset grommet holes) with selectable vertical and horizontal positioning. **Personal Private Pro Workspace**: Includes a dedicated cloud storage workspace allowing creators to save unlimited custom projects—complete with uploaded image thumbnails, color palettes, pane/frame depths, and ring settings—featuring 1-click project restoration and portable JSON import/export workflows. **Serverless Cloud Architecture & Automated CI/CD**: Built on a stateless, in-memory backend deployed on Firebase Hosting and Google Cloud Functions (2nd Gen), backed by automated GitLab CI/CD pipelines for seamless continuous integration and deployment. --- ### 4. TheBusLAND - Axis Mundi RV Rental 2026 - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-11/ - **Headline**: Luxury Minimal transit bus RV conversion rental modernization - **Summary**: TheBusLAND is a Luxury Minimal transit bus RV conversion rental prepared for the 2026 Burning Man season. #### Case Study Details [TheBusLAND](https://thebusland.com) is a Luxury Minimal transit bus RV conversion rental prepared for the 2026 Burning Man season. This project involved completely redesigning the site to align with the "Axis Mundi RV Rental 2026" concept, implementing a scrollytelling layout for The Sanctuary, and deploying a secure serverless architecture for lead capture. Key enhancements included: **Performance & SEO Optimization**: Implemented complete Open Graph metadata tags, injected lazy-loading on all images, and configured long-term Cache-Control headers via Firebase Hosting. **Dynamic Pricing Tool**: Created a standalone dynamic rental cost and terms tool, integrating Google Sheets tabular data into the brand's aesthetic. **Serverless Architecture**: Integrated Mailgun email system via a secure custom Firebase Cloud Function to process contact form credentials. --- ### 5. Web site refactoring and re-hosting - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-9/ - **Headline**: Modernizing TheEngine.com with AI-driven development - **Summary**: In a whirlwind phase of modernization, TheEngine.com underwent a complete structural and aesthetic overhaul. This project served as a deep-dive into… #### Case Study Details In a whirlwind phase of modernization, TheEngine.com underwent a complete structural and aesthetic overhaul. This project served as a deep-dive into the capabilities of advanced autonomous coding agents, specifically using the combined power of **Google Antigravity** and **Gemini**. The scope included: **Site-wide Performance Optimization**: Remastering legacy high-rez assets to WebP, resulting in 80%+ bandwidth savings. **Branding Remaster**: Standardizing typography (Inter & Outfit), glassmorphism UI updates, and new high-rez iconography. **Legacy Cleanup**: Scrubbing vestigial build junk and absolute link dependencies for a leaner, faster local delivery. **Robust Routing**: Configuring a custom 404 error logic and Firebase Hosting integration. What truly set this project apart was the **unprecedented efficiency**. Using traditional development tools, an overhaul of this scale—managing hundreds of file-level dependencies and remastering entire asset libraries—was estimated to take a "month of Sundays." In fact, the work had been postponed for years due to the perceived effort required. Through the use of advanced AI collaboration, the entire refactoring project was completed in just **two easy days**. --- ### 6. Genesis RPG - Web Site Refactoring and Re-hosting - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-10/ - **Headline**: Modernizing a retro-paper RPG using Antigravity and Firebase - **Summary**: The GenesisRPG website is devoted to a retro-paper based Role Playing Game developed by high school kids in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, now remastered… #### Case Study Details The [GenesisRPG](https://genesisrpg.com) website is devoted to a retro-paper based Role Playing Game developed by high school kids in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, now remastered and posted publicly for all to enjoy. This project was completely refactored and re-hosted using **Google Antigravity** and **Gemini**, with final deployment directly on **Firebase Hosting** and **Functions**. Key enhancements included: **Extensive Optimization**: Consolidated inline CSS into a global stylesheet, formatted all code with Prettier, and optimized all images to WebP format for improved load times. **Serverless Contact Form**: Deployed a Node.js 22 secure Cloud Function using Mailgun API (including HTML and plain-text emails) directly managed by Firebase. **Feature Additions**: Integrated lightning-fast client-side documentation search, generated a custom "Lost in Space" thematic 404 page, and finalized a professional Print-Friendly stylesheet (`@media print`) ideal for tabletop campaign usage. --- ### 7. JAMStack & e-commerce - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-7/ - **Headline**: A simple site using SSG, CDN and hosted Shop - **Summary**: My first client Baja's Food & portfolio item using a new pattern of web development - JAMStack. built on Gatsby.js with the markdown and YAML files… #### Case Study Details My first client [Baja's Food](https://www.bajasfood.com/) & portfolio item using a new pattern of web development - JAMStack. built on [Gatsby.js](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/) with the markdown and YAML files stored as a [GitHub](https://github.com/donnay/modern-olive) repo, build-on-demand and when a commit is made. The site is generated and deployed to the cloud CDN by [Netlify.com](https://www.netlify.com/) Shopping cart and e-commerce functions are delivered via [Shopify.com](https://www.shopify.com/). This pattern & combination of services produces a lightning fast, secure and responsive e-commerce web site. The content is managed via a GUI for easy site & store updates. "Basically all the traditional monolithic CMS’s have really started seeing that this decoupling [of frontend from backend] is a reality and it’s desirable for the developers," - Matt Biilmann told thenewstack.io in Jul 2020 --- ### 8. JAMStack & Discourse - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-8/ - **Headline**: A simple landing site to front a community discussion - **Summary**: My first portfolio project using the 'JAMStack'. Which is a pattern of just Javascript, APIs, and Markup to develop websites that are lightning fast,… #### Case Study Details My first portfolio project using the 'JAMStack'. Which is a pattern of just Javascript, APIs, and Markup to develop websites that are lightning fast, secure and responsive. The content is managed via a GUI for easy updates. built on [Gatsby.js](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/) with the markdown and YAML files stored as a [GitHub](https://github.com/donnay/perpetual-sparrow) repo, built on demand and when a commit is made. ### [The site](https://www.discourse.org/) is generated and deployed to the cloud CDN by [Netlify.com](https://www.netlify.com/). ### The community chat is hosted [Discourse](https://forum.discourse.org/) on a VM in Google cloud. --- ### 9. Naturopathic Alliance site - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-1/ - **Headline**: Development & hosting of a WordPress CMS site - **Summary**: Over two weeks, I worked side-by-side with the client Naturopathic Alliance to build and deploy a new website on a dedicated Google Cloud VM to dispel health misinformation. #### Case Study Details Over two weeks, I worked side-bu-side with the client Naturopathic Alliance to build and deploy a new website to support their efforts to dispel the Info-demic during the S SARS-CoV-2 virus. A Wordpress instance, on a dedicated VM hosted in Google cloud was stood-up. The themes and CMS authoring tools requested were installed and the sites security and peeformance was optimized. --- ### 10. mBibe.gifts - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-2/ - **Headline**: Our first mobile application - **Summary**: mBibe.gifts is the unique way for adults to send a “cheers” via iMessage Chat. #### Case Study Details mBibe.gifts is the unique way for adults to send a “cheers” via iMessage Chat. Friends use mBibe.gifts to connect with friends, when they just can’t make that awesome party that everyone else did. Send them a beer - to say “I’m there with you in spirit”! Or use mBibe.me to says thanks to colleagues that went above and beyond. Nothing says “You did a great job - way to rock it!” like a glass of wine or a fine cocktail. Reward coaches, cleaners, anyone with the mBibe.me app, and say “I appreciate you, thanks!” With mBibe.gifts, you can easily congratulate your friends, family, and colleagues with a digital gift of money, and a recommendation of a nearby bar to enjoy it. mBibe is a free App in the iTunes App Store and charges a small service fee for each gift that is sent. The mBibe.me App is a game-changer for anyone who has ever said... Thanks, I owe you a beer! --- ### 11. Social Frames - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-3/ - **Headline**: SocialMedia Viewer - **Summary**: An app to display all your social media mentions in one place. #### Case Study Details An app to display all your social media mentions in one place. --- ### 12. Pioneer Consulting - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-4/ - **Headline**: A early Joomla CMS client site - **Summary**: Working closely with our clients, we developed and deployed the client's website based on Joomla CMS. We trained the client to update the site and… #### Case Study Details Working closely with our clients, we developed and deployed the client's website based on Joomla CMS. We trained the client to update the site and provided regular maintenance via an annual support agreement. --- ### 13. Genesis - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-5/ - **Headline**: A paper based Role-Playing Game - **Summary**: A role-playing game is an interactive story like a novel or a movie — except the actions of the players change the course of the adventure. The players… #### Case Study Details A role-playing game is an interactive story like a novel or a movie — except the actions of the players change the course of the adventure. The players interact with the universe through imaginary extensions of themselves called characters. These characters are people living in the Universe that the players control. Unlike regular games, RPGs change each time you play because the story is separate from the rules, so each time you use a new story the adventure changes. With role-playing games you never have the same adventure twice. That is what makes role-playing such a vivid, exciting and unique experience — you never know what to expect. The content has been dusted off and is being posted on a [Genesis blog](https://www.genesisrpg.com) --- ### 14. Westpoint Strata Booking - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/portfolio/project-6/ - **Headline**: an e-commerce website - **Summary**: A guest suite booking site, for a local Strata (Condo) corporation. This is an example of a white label knock-off of Airbnb, or MrBnB. #### Case Study Details A guest suite booking site, for a local Strata (Condo) corporation. This is an example of a white lable knock-off of AirB&B, or MrBnB. The booking is done via a white label rooms booking service out of Germany [Beds24.com](https://Beds24.com) which is highly configurable. The Landing page displays the booking interface via an iframe and is hosted by [https://netlify.com](https://www.netlify.com/) via a Static Site Generator #SSG and at the edge via cloud content distribution network #CDN. --- ## 3. Strata Management & Community Projects ### Westpoint Terrace Guest Suite Portal - **URL**: https://www.theengine.com/westpointterrace/ - **Purpose**: A self-contained resident booking platform, calendar availability tracker, and digital operational manual for the Westpoint Terrace Strata guest suite in Vancouver, BC. - **Includes**: Guest suite check-in guide, amenities list, building regulations, and direct strata contact channels. --- ## 4. Contact & Inquiries - **Primary Contact**: Kevin D. Clarke ( / ) - **Web Form**: https://www.theengine.com/contact/ - **Location**: Vancouver, BC, Canada - **Mailing List**: https://newsletter.theengine.com/ - **Merchandise**: https://shop.theengine.com/