Jonathan Mercieca's Work | ContraWork by Jonathan MerciecaJonathan Mercieca
Video Content Creator
In the New York Public Library I found Anna Atkins's Photographs of British Algae (1843–53), the first book ever illustrated with photographs, made by laying seaweed directly on light-sensitive paper. I turned her cyanotypes into a Recraft Style and pointed it at the modern equivalent of the tide pool: the drawer every household has, full of tangled cables, orphaned earbuds and takeaway chopsticks. Photographs of Domestic Algae is the field guide to that drawer, each specimen pressed flat, printed in Prussian blue and labelled in Atkins's hand with its proper Latin name. A charging cable becomes Cabellus tortuosus, a shattered phone screen branches like kelp, and an e-scooter takes the place of her giant Laminaria. Same process, same page, one hundred and eighty years of junk. Not flying to LA? I exported myself there. I’m a video editor in Malta, so my journey to CapCut World is an export progress bar: pixelating out of my chair, glitching across the Atlantic, then frozen at 99% above LA for far too long, before landing on the main stage at 100%. Every creator knows that 99%. Made entirely in CapCut Video Studio. Kill Fee — the contract X-ray for freelancers.
Freelancers sign contracts they haven't really read, because paying a lawyer to review a small job doesn't add up. Kill Fee reads the contract from the freelancer's side instead.
Paste a client agreement and you get a risk score, every problem clause in plain English with what it costs you, and replacement wording ready to paste. It also checks a fixed list of freelance protections — kill fee, revision cap, late-payment interest, portfolio rights, IP on payment, liability cap — and flags every one that's missing. That's the damage most tools never see, because there's no clause to highlight.
The automation: Kill Fee pre-selects the four changes that matter most and generates a private link. The client opens it without an account and accepts or declines each change, and a backend function records the answers straight back onto the freelancer's report. A negotiation round that usually takes days of emails and PDF markup becomes two clicks on each side.
Built entirely in Base44, with Claude driving the build through the Base44 connector. The analysis runs on Base44's LLM integration with a strict JSON schema, and the public client page only ever exposes the requested changes — never the contract, the score, or the findings the freelancer left out.
Not legal advice — it's what you read before deciding whether you need any. Spotlight — a square social ad template that survives your content.
It’s for anyone launching a product, a menu item or an offer — a café, a studio, a shop — who needs it to move without hiring a motion designer. Every part you’d change is its own named element (logo, headline, subline, product-image, cta, badge): retype the text, drop in your photo and logo, swap the accent colour, and the motion follows untouched, because every movement is relative to the element rather than to its content.
Built entirely through the SVGator MCP from Claude: the full project — layers, live text, named elements, clip mask and the 6-second loop — was authored in one create_project call, verified with get_skeleton, refined with edit_part, then duplicated and re-texted for the second brand before the final swap by hand.