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The marketing company. Campaigns, advertising, SEO and media buying for Coachella Valley businesses.
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Thinglet
We build
things.
Technology, software, experiments and ventures, built by people who like solving problems.
Every project on this site is a node in the map above. Drag to turn it, or pick one to jump straight to it.
We are interested in what happens when an idea becomes real.
Thinglet is an independent technology and innovation company. We build software, experiments, digital experiences and businesses.
Some become products. Some become companies. Some teach us what not to do. The point is to build, test and learn.
Right now
What has our attention this quarter.
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Thinglet A.I.
The AI company. Software, consulting and training that puts artificial intelligence on real tasks.
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fakeserver
A platform that sells pre-built AI agents to small businesses, ready to run rather than ready to configure.
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Recon Report
A free audit built to answer one question: how does a business actually show up online?
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ObserviSec
Monitoring and security visibility for people who run their own servers.
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Updated August 2026
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Desktop publishing tool
A replacement for Microsoft Publisher, timed to its end of life in October 2026.
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Updated August 2026
One company. A lot of things.
Thinglet is the company. These are the parts of it that have their own front door.
The lab
This is where ideas get messy. We prototype technologies, test assumptions and publish what we learn.
Some of it works. A useful amount of it does not, and that turns out to be the part worth writing down.
We test things.
We would rather measure a real experiment than repeat somebody else's opinion.
Research here means running something on live systems with real numbers attached, then publishing the result whichever way it lands.
Some ideas become businesses.
Products and companies Thinglet developed, owns or operates.
Live
Thinglet Marketing
The marketing company. Campaigns, advertising, SEO and media buying for Coachella Valley businesses.
Thinglet division
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Live
Thinglet A.I.
The AI company. Software, consulting and training that puts artificial intelligence on real tasks.
Thinglet division
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Frothier Media
A news operation with AI anchors reading the day's stories from six studio desks.
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Venture
DebtFree Path
Compares debt relief options and connects people to the one that fits.
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Useful beats hype.
Build useful things
If it does not save someone time, money or aggravation, it is a demo, not a product. We try to be honest with ourselves about which one we are holding.
Keep the human in charge
Automation should hand people better decisions, not take the decision away. Every system we build has somewhere a person can step in.
Publish what we learn
The failures are more instructive than the wins and almost nobody writes them down. We do, including the ones that make us look slow.
The person behind the things
Patrick Albert founded Thinglet in Palm Desert in August 2011. Before that came the Navy, two decades of hospitality ownership, and a habit of taking apart anything with a manual.
He writes the code, runs the servers, publishes books under his own imprint, and speaks locally on AI and emerging technology. The work on this site is mostly his, which is either the appeal or the caveat depending on what you need.
Have an idea?
Maybe it should be a product. Maybe it should be an experiment. Maybe it should simply work better.
Tell us what you are trying to build, fix or figure out, and we will tell you where it belongs. Sometimes that is with us. Sometimes it is a ten minute answer and you are on your way.