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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.

ai-topic-analyzer.replit.app

Hubspot AI Dashboard

Prototype

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

hubspot-ai-onboarding.replit.app

AI Onboarding Assistant

Prototype

Intelligent onboarding system that adapts to user context and behavior. Demonstrates personalized context generation at scale.

Ploppy

Coming Soon

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

Recipe Remix

Live

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

recipe-remix.app

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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