📍 Raleigh, NC | 🚀 Co-Founder & CEO Nutrient (@PSPDFKit) | ⚖️ Lawyer turned builder | 🤖 Aspiring vibe coding god
I left a law career to build software. Best decision I ever made. Now I run Nutrient — the company I co-founded as PSPDFKit back in 2014. We help developers build better document experiences, and our tech powers apps used by nearly a billion people.
These days I'm deep in the AI trenches, building document processing infrastructure for AI agents. I run a fleet of AI agents — House Atreides — five specialized agents that handle everything from code review to market research while I'm at my kid's birthday parties. The future is weird and I'm here for it.
Document processing infrastructure for humans and AI agents.
- 📄 Nutrient DWS MCP Server — MCP server for document processing: convert, OCR, redact, sign, extract, watermark PDFs via natural language
- 🏗️ Nutrient Document Engine MCP Server — MCP server for self-hosted Nutrient Document Engine with full document processing capabilities
- 🔌 Nutrient Agent Skill — Universal document processing skill for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 15+ agents
- 🐍 nutrient-dws-client-python — Official Python client for the Nutrient Document Web Services API
- 📘 nutrient-dws-typescript-client — TypeScript client for the Nutrient DWS API
- 📝 nudocs — AI-powered document editing and collaboration (CLI · MCP Server)
- 📚 awesome-nutrient — Curated collection of Nutrient ecosystem resources
Making AI agents trustworthy, capable, and autonomous.
- 🛡️ AgentVerus Scanner — Security scanner for AI agent skills. Detects prompt injection, data exfiltration, and 10 ASST threat categories across 12,500+ scanned skills
- 🔌 AgentVerus MCP Server (coming soon) — MCP server exposing trust scoring and security analysis for any AI agent workflow
- 🤖 agent-skills — 35+ reusable AI agent skills for OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex
- 🦞 OpenClaw — Contributing to the personal AI assistant that actually does things
- 🦞 lobster-workflows — Deterministic workflow templates with approval gates and state tracking
- 🎨 volks-typo — Astro blog theme exploring Bauhaus modernism and WW2-era typography
I publish reusable AI agent skills on ClawHub — the skill registry for OpenClaw and other agent frameworks.
Skills include: Nutrient document processing, Nudocs, Gong, Google Ads, JIRA, Munger Observer, Sysadmin Toolbox, TODO Tracker, Context Recovery, and more.
- 🔋 Nutrient (formerly @PSPDFKit) — Co-Founder & CEO. Document SDKs used by millions, backed by Insight Partners. Built from scratch with @steipete in 2011, rebranded to Nutrient in 2024.
- Building infrastructure for trustworthy AI agents — Security scanning, document processing, and the tooling agents need to actually work
- Running House Atreides — A fleet of 5 specialized AI agents on OpenClaw that handle real work autonomously
- Publishing agent skills — Packaging reusable workflows on ClawHub
- Writing — Documenting the journey at jdrhyne.me
- Leading Nutrient — Evolving how humans (and AI agents) experience documents
- Meet Brosef: How AI Learned to Work While I Sleep — Jan 2026
- Building My Website Without Writing Code — Jun 2025
- The Enduring Importance of Retreats for Remote Companies — Sep 2023
- From Camelot to the Cloud: The World Has Lost a True Visionary — Aug 2023
- The Evolution of the Document: Fusing the Old with the New — Jul 2023
- 🏛️ Forbes Technology Council member
- 🎙️ AiThority Interview on AI and document processing
- 📄 PDF Association member
- 🦞 Featured on openclaw.ai
"Ship beats perfect" — I went from writing legal briefs to shipping code. Turns out both are just about clear communication and solving problems.
- 🎓 NC State undergrad → Campbell Law School → said "nah" to practicing law
- 🤝 Co-founded PSPDFKit with @steipete — still friends, still building
- ☕ Powered by North Carolina coffee and the belief that documents don't have to suck
- 🤖 Currently running a fleet of AI agents that do real work while I live my life