Calgary, Alberta

David Harder

Thirty years building for the web. Now agentic systems, a marketplace, clinical tools, and a way to keep a father's stories.

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David Harder, photographed in Calgary in 2026.

My dad is 88. I built him an interviewer.

It asks him one question and waits. No interrupting, no timer. He talks until he taps that he's finished, and then it writes the page in his words.

It never invents. A missing year becomes a question for the family, not a guess on the page. His voice is saved before anything else happens. Twelve chapters of a life: roots, school, work, love, faith, legacy.

He's the first storyteller. Now it's open to anyone with a parent, a grandparent, or a life of their own worth keeping. It's called Worth the Telling.

Worth the Telling home page: Your voice. Your stories. For the generations ahead.

One story free. Twenty recorded hours and a finished book for $150 CAD.

Made in Canada, on Canadian servers. worththetelling.com

Live builds you can click.

Everything here runs on its real domain, with real databases, payments and email underneath. Nothing is a mockup.

NESHE Network

A national handmade marketplace. Every maker paid out separately and taxed by their own registration, with retailer rewards and referrals that credit the right person.

neshenetwork.com

Syntac for Therapists

Conversational intake and practice tools for clinicians, with Canadian data residency and a full audit trail.

syntac.org/therapist

A counselling practice

A Calgary practice with an AI content studio behind it. It drafts twice a week and publishes only on the clinician's reply.

clearviewcounselling.ca

A therapist's practice

A trauma therapist's site, with its own publishing loop written in her voice and approved by her.

perrinmhs.com

Journey Center

My own gathering room in NW Calgary. Concerts, sound baths, circles, forty chairs and a kettle.

journeycenter.com

Syntac Digital

My shop, and the standard the rest are held to. Sites, platforms and marketplaces that used to take a quarter now take days, and an AI operator named Andi who runs my inbox, calendar and drafts through approval gates.

syntacdigital.com

The full list, with links: all.syntac.org

Thirty years of shipping.

I built my first websites in the 1990s, when view source was the whole curriculum, and I never stopped. Whatever else I was doing, there was a build on the go for somebody.

I co-founded ATMA Journey Centers, one of the first companies in Canada to offer legal psychedelic-assisted therapy and to train therapists in it. In 2023 I stepped away and went all-in on software that acts instead of displays.

Today I run Syntac Digital from Calgary, build inside a group of companies, and open the doors at Journey Center in Ranchlands, where people come to sing, sit and talk.

1990s
First sites, hand-built. The web pays attention to people who ship.
ATMA
Co-founded one of Canada's first legal psychedelic-therapy companies and trained the therapists.
2023
Left, and went all-in on agentic AI. Building with it daily until it held real weight.
Now
Syntac Digital, Journey Center, Worth the Telling.

How I work.

Live URLs, not decks.

You see working software in the first week.

Real domains from day one.

Nothing I deliver looks like a draft.

AI does the volume. I own the outcome.

Speed, without the slop.

Human gates where it matters.

Anything that leaves in your name gets a human tap first.

Say hello.

If you want something built, or you want to talk about your parent's stories, write to me. I read everything myself.

david@syntac.org