In the open
Products currently live.
ReadySetBind
Placement-to-bind automation for insurance agencies: quote PDF → AI extraction → human verify → e-sign → bind request. 813 commits, 243 PRs, 17 days.
TariffRefunded
IEEPA tariff refund recovery for SMB importers, racing a 180-day protest window. Broker partnership in progress.
Latest in the build journal
The three most recent entries. See the full journal →
- JUN 11
ReadySetBind live in pilot — and this register goes up
Eight products, two live, one published, one report delivered. The kills count as much as the launches.
- JUN 9
StackBadger published
A pentest harness extracted from TariffRefunded, scrubbed, and released. The extract → scrub → review playbook becomes repeatable.
- MAY 26
ReadySetBind — first commit
813 commits and 243 PRs over 17 days. Day one shipped the end of the pipeline before most of the middle existed.
Recent writing
Field notes from building with AI agents. All posts →
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.
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.
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.