About

I'm William Clayton Fulk — known as Clay — a Chief Engineer on ocean-going container vessels who builds AI systems, physical products, and software on the side. My background sits at an unusual intersection: deep technical credibility in maritime engineering combined with hands-on software development, hardware tinkering, and startup building.

Most engineers stay in their lane. I didn't. After years in engine rooms — managing complex mechanical systems, high-stakes maintenance operations, and multi-crew technical environments — I started applying that same operational thinking to software and AI. The result is DigitalRound, an industrial maintenance AI system built by someone who has actually done rounds at 3am on a vessel in rough seas.

That operator-first perspective is my core differentiator. I build software for people who use it in the field, not in conference rooms. I design systems with maritime-grade reliability expectations. And I approach AI as a practical operational tool, not a research project.

Beyond DigitalRound, I run a fleet of 16+ autonomous AI agents across multiple ventures — from patriotic apparel to content platforms to anonymous communication tools. The fleet itself is a systems engineering problem, and I treat it like one.