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ReadySetBind

Placement-to-bind automation for insurance agencies: quote PDF → AI extraction → human verify → e-sign → bind request. 813 commits, 243 PRs, 17 days.

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TariffRefunded

IEEPA tariff refund recovery for SMB importers, racing a 180-day protest window. Broker partnership in progress.

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SECURITY

1 of 16: auditing my own guardrails

I built sixteen guardrails to stop my AI coding agents from destroying work. Then I audited them like a consultant would. One actually worked.

JUN 2026 · 5 MIN
POSTMORTEM

Compile-green, deploy-broken

Every test passed and it worked on my laptop. In production, placing PDF signature fields failed four different ways — pdf.js in a serverless runtime — each one invisible until the previous fix.

JUN 2026 · 6 MIN
SECURITY

The regulation in my build pipeline

A federal statute constrains what my product is allowed to say. An audit found 18 violations in my own copy — so I wired the forbidden phrasings into the build and made shipping one impossible.

JUN 2026 · 5 MIN
"Prose documents intent. Gates enforce it."
The operating principle behind every project here. The same bug shipped three times past written rules — and zero times past a CI gate. Deterministic enforcement beats advisory documentation, in agent harnesses and security programs alike.