Side Projects & Prototypes
Things I build to learn, test ideas, and scratch itches.
Sia
A personal knowledge system demonstrating the five-step context generation architecture I advocate for. Curates from Feedly and other sources, synthesizes at ingest time, runs consolidation agents every six hours, prioritizes by goal-awareness, and stores with intelligent indexing. Built with FastAPI, Neon Postgres + pgvector, Ollama, and Langfuse. This is the proof of the thesis.
Read the thesis →Ascend
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.careersBlocade
A political fundraising system for local campaigns. Streamlined tools for grassroots campaign finance and donor management.
blocade.appAI Topic Trend Analyzer
Analyzes trending topics and patterns in AI discourse. Real-time tracking of emerging themes, terminology, and community focus areas.
ai-topic-analyzer.replit.appHubspot AI Dashboard
AI-powered onboarding and analytics dashboard for HubSpot. Demonstrates intelligent context generation for customer success.
hubspot-ai-onboarding.replit.appAI Onboarding Assistant
Intelligent onboarding system that adapts to user context and behavior. Demonstrates personalized context generation at scale.
Ploppy
Analyze NYC political contribution data. Tools for understanding political finance patterns and contributor networks in New York City.
Recipe Remix
Because sometimes you just want to build something fun. A creative cooking tool that remixes and reimagines recipes.
recipe-remix.appExplore 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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