Always a human orchestration layer
carlfarrington.com — Asheville, NC — building since the late 1980s
Carl Farrington
Thirty years building for the web. Now I build the systems that build.
Nothing here replaced what came before. It stacked. The top layer is AI — I could not have built this without it, and there is a human at every gate.
Carl Farrington is a software developer and founder in Asheville, North Carolina. He built Western North Carolina’s first ISP in 1995 and co-owns WNC Times, where his wife is editor. He now runs NewsroomAIOS — a platform operating 17 AI-powered local newspapers across 16 US markets — as a single operator, with a human at every gate. It launches September 1, 2026.
What I run
NewsroomAIOS
Multi-tenant platform for AI-powered local newspapers. 17 papers, 16 markets, one operator. Launches 2026.09.01.
WNC Times
Western North Carolina news since 2000. 20,000+ articles. My wife Marjorie edits; I run the tech.
Farrington Development
Client web and AI development, since 1995. The portfolio lives there — this site is the person, not the shop.
OpenOcti / OCTI
MIT fork of the OpenClaw agent runtime plus a plan-gated harness — every plan turn approved by a human before execution.
Primeline Internet Services
The first ISP in Western North Carolina. Sold to private equity in October 1999, just short of 20,000 subscribers.
WNC Times
Marjorie and I start the paper. She edits. I run the tech. It never stopped publishing.
The paper becomes a product
NewsroomAIOS and the Farrington Command Center launch the same day.