About Nick Hunter

Nick Hunter is a FileMaker developer and consultant with more than 40 years of FileMaker development experience. His work is grounded in real FileMaker systems: business applications that have to run every day, support actual users, preserve important business logic, and keep evolving as companies change. The FileMaker Lab exists to share that experience through consulting, training, webinars, tools, AI-assisted workflows, plugin research, and practical development guidance.

FileMaker has changed across decades of technology shifts, but the core challenge has stayed familiar: build useful systems around real business processes. Nick's work spans architecture, scripts, relationships, calculations, layouts, reporting, automation, performance, modernization, integrations, and user workflows. That long view is useful when a system has accumulated old decisions and needs someone who can tell the difference between valuable business logic and technical debt.

The FileMaker Lab also focuses on newer development frontiers. AI-assisted FileMaker development, Generate Response from Model workflows, OpenAI integration, native plugin development, macOS and Windows tooling, server-side automation, and performance engineering are all part of the lab's work. The goal is not to chase trends, but to use modern tools where they genuinely improve FileMaker development and business workflows.

Nick works with clients who need direct help: architecture review, troubleshooting, slow-system diagnosis, modernization planning, plugin strategy, AI workflow design, automation, coaching, and training. Some engagements are small and focused. Others involve deeper system review or a larger development sprint. In either case, the work starts with the actual FileMaker problem and moves toward the smallest useful path forward.

The FileMaker Lab is built for people who care about FileMaker as a serious development platform. It is for developers who want better habits, business owners who need reliable systems, teams modernizing old solutions, and builders exploring AI, plugins, automation, and native tools. Nick brings the long memory of FileMaker history together with current development practice so clients can make better decisions about what to fix, what to preserve, and what to build next.

That combination of history and current practice is the point of the lab. FileMaker still matters because businesses still need custom systems that match their real processes. Nick helps connect that practical FileMaker foundation to modern development methods, including AI-assisted work, native plugins, automation, performance thinking, and training that helps teams keep moving after the consulting session ends.