25+ Years of Building What Comes Next

Tommy Hofton

From webshops → virtual worlds → AI forensics

A self-taught Software Architect and Software Engineer who shipped Norway’s #2 ranked webshop in 1999, built security & surveillance systems trusted by 8+ million Second Life residents, and now develops Agent37.ai — the world’s most powerful digital forensics AI agent.

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99
iHandel.no
#2 webshop · 37K products
SL
8M+ Customers
Security & surveillance
AI
Agent37.ai
200+ AI models · forensics
25+
Years shipping
37,000
Products in 1999
8M+
Customers served
200+
AI models in Agent37
The journey — 1999 to today

Three eras.
One obsession: building tools that see.

Every chapter started the same way — a gap nobody had filled, a system designed from scratch, and a product shipped faster than anyone thought possible.

iHandel.no webshop frontpage, circa 2001
1999 – 2003 · Norway
Era 01 · E-commerce iHandel.no

Norway’s #2 most popular webshop — in under 18 months.

A Norwegian computer hardware webshop with 37,000 products, built on a custom e-commerce engine I wrote myself: H.I.T WebShop. Prices synced automatically from every importer and distributor every 24 hours, real-time credit checks processed orders in seconds, and a purpose-built fuzzy-logic search engine — BoneCOLLECTOR — made finding products effortless. Featured by ABC Startsiden, praised on Hardware.no with near-perfect 6/6 reviews.

37,000
Products
#2
Most popular in Norway
6 / 6
Avg. customer rating
01
H.I.T WebShop — custom commerce engine
Weekly feature releases, daily price sync from all distributors, 100% cross-browser compatibility.
02
BoneCOLLECTOR search engine
Fuzzy-logic product search launched Nov 2001, tuned from real customer behaviour — plus category-structure search.
03
Real-time credit check & logistics
Integrated eCredit Nuf for instant order processing; door-to-door delivery and 1–3 day shipping with free freight over 1500 NOK.
“The best store I have ordered from — delivery and service are excellent. Highly recommended!” — Hardware.no review · Rating 6 / 6
iHandel.no about page
About & team
Hardware.no webshop ranking
Hardware.no reviews
iHandel.no product departments
10 departments
Land Security Orb in Second Life
2006 – 2020 · Second Life
Era 02 · Security & surveillance Thomas Conover — SL Gadgets

8+ million customers. One virtual world.

For 14 years I designed, scripted and sold advanced security and surveillance systems inside Second Life — every product built from the ground up with custom scripting, textures, sound and particle effects. From the original Land Security Orb (2006) to the legendary Secret-Agent HUD and grid-wide radar systems, these tools became the standard for protecting land, clubs, estates and avatars. Life-time guarantees and free auto-updates were standard on everything.

8M+
Customers
12
Shipped products
14 yrs
2006 – 2020
Secret-Agent HUD — V10
Wearable chat-spy, full-SIM scanner and micro remote-scanner. 95% script reduction, works even in no-script regions. LIST / MAP / X-Ray / MINI modes, interceptor shields and anti-orbit cages.
869 ratings
Land Security Orb — V3
The ORIGINAL since 2006. 100% menu-controlled, 0.05 ms lag, scan ranges 1 m – 4096 m, parcels up to 65,000 m². iPhone/Android push alerts, rental-box integration, three protection modes.
336 ratings
Advanced Object-Scanner HUD
“Find anything, anywhere.” High-resolution search-engine scanner that analyses hundreds of objects in a single 96 m sweep — active, passive and scripted objects.
180 ratings
SIM-Radar Ultra Edition
Unlimited scan range, up to 400 tracked avatars, 60-day statistics history and the transfer’O’tronic upgrade system that copies your whole setup to a new unit in seconds.
192 ratings
MSR
Multi-SIM Radar HUD
Monitor up to 50 SIMs grid-wide, deploy remote chat-spy drones, teleport invites, remote BAN / EJECT — all from one wearable HUD.
+
A full gadget ecosystem
Hybrid Spy-Station, Land BodyGuard HUD Ultra, Avatar Online-Tracker, Remote Visitor-Counter, HPC Teleport PAD System and more — 12 products total.
Secret-Agent HUD map mode
Secret-Agent HUD
SIM-Radar Ultra Edition
SIM-Radar Ultra
Advanced Object-Scanner HUD
Object-Scanner HUD
Agent37.ai interface
2020 – Present · Agent37.ai
Era 03 · Digital forensics AI Agent37.ai

The world’s most powerful digital forensics AI agent.

Codename “Pandora’s Box”. Agent37.ai is a cross-platform application (Mac, Windows, Linux) that gives direct-query access to 200+ world-class AI models — from inside one clean, native interface. Built originally to process, analyse and reconstruct complex hidden patterns inside massive document-based evidence, it has grown into a complete AI research powerhouse: AI crime-investigation, high-capacity OCR, multi-query comparison, local-only storage and real-time AI self-evaluation. Zero programming experience required.

200+
AI models
100%
Local storage
3
Native platforms
01
AI Crime-Investigator
Process evidence and solve large, complex cases at the speed of AI — built to surface hidden patterns in huge document sets.
02
AI-OCR Scanner
High-capacity OCR with a remarkable success rate on everything from 400-year-old books to handwritten letters — thousands of pages per session.
03
Multi-Query AI & self-evaluation
Ask 200+ models in parallel, compare answers instantly, and get real-time confidence & domain-knowledge introspection from every model.
04
Local-first & private by design
All sessions and data stored 100% locally. Optional TOR routing, raw unfiltered model output, token & cost budgets, pay-per-use credits.
“Agent37 gives you direct access to the bare-metal AI APIs — normally only available to software engineers — through an intuitive graphical interface.” — Agent37.ai · Codename Pandora’s Box
Tommy Hofton portrait
25+ yrs
Shipping software
About

Tommy Hofton
Self-taught. Relentlessly curious. Always building.

I started in 1999 in Drammen, Norway — writing my own webshop engine, my own search engine, my own credit-check integrations — because the tools I needed didn’t exist yet. That habit never stopped.

From e-commerce to virtual-world security to AI-powered digital forensics, the thread has always been the same: find the gap, design the system from scratch, ship it, and stand behind it for life.

Systems architecture
E-commerce
Search engines
Security systems
Surveillance tech
L&SL scripting
AI integration
Digital forensics
OCR & document AI
Cross-platform apps
Product design
Concept development