Paul didn't set out to build an app. He served in the U.S. Army with the 1st Infantry Division, where every day had structure built in. After an honorable discharge, he started college, and all of that structure disappeared. He has ADHD and a learning disability that makes processing written text a daily negotiation. Without the military's framework holding things together, every productivity tool he tried assumed his brain worked like everyone else's. None of them did.
So in 2011, he built his own system. On paper. List the tasks, estimate the time, schedule productive breaks, and track whether the plan matched reality. It worked. He carried it into the Kansas Army National Guard, through military training schools, and into every demanding role that followed.
He digitized it in 2014, but always went back to paper. The apps were too rigid, too complicated, and too focused on punishing you for losing focus instead of helping you find it again.
For over a decade, that system stayed on paper, his alone. Turning it into an app he could hand to other people took two things: coding skills he kept building year after year, and tools that hadn't caught up yet. In 2026, both finally came together. Paul founded Forge Hut, LLC and built Ebbi the same way he builds everything: research exhaustively, prototype, iterate, and refuse to stop until it's better than what exists.
Every feature in Ebbi is grounded in peer-reviewed neuroscience and tested on the brain that needed it most: his own.
Paul lives in Kansas with his family, three dogs, and four cats. Most Saturdays you'll find him in his shop, 3D printing something or building this very app. His kids roll their eyes at both.
