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The Context Layer — a newsletter on AI memory, context synthesis, and building products that think.

Side Projects & Prototypes

Things I build to learn, test ideas, and scratch itches.

Ascend

Live

A career growth SaaS product built entirely with AI coding tools. No hand-written code. Total cost: <$500 vs. ~$200K per product in the Grandstage era.

ascend.careers

Blocade

Live

A political fundraising system for local campaigns. Streamlined tools for grassroots campaign finance and donor management.

blocade.app

AI Topic Trend Analyzer

Prototype

Analyzes trending topics and patterns in AI discourse. Real-time tracking of emerging themes, terminology, and community focus areas.

github.com/rczamor/ai_trend_analyzer

AI Onboarding Assistant and Dashboard

Prototype

AI-powered onboarding and analytics dashboard for HubSpot. Demonstrates intelligent context generation for customer success.

github.com/rczamor/HubspotAiOnboarding

Ploppy

Coming Soon

Analyze NYC political contribution data. Tools for understanding political finance patterns and contributor networks in New York City.

github.com/rczamor/ploppy

Recipe Remix

Live

Because sometimes you just want to build something fun. A creative cooking tool that remixes and reimagines recipes.

github.com/rczamor/recipe-remix

Explore the code

Many of these projects are open-source or available on my GitHub. Check out the latest work, fork experiments, or contribute.

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