Building with AI

I build the tools,
not just the roadmap.

When AI is on every roadmap, the useful question isn't whether to use it, it's where. Building things myself is what lets me tell a real opportunity from a good demo.

What I've built

My background is analysis, product, tech, data and delivery, not pure engineering. With AI I take things all the way. I integrate, test and ship. I use it for far more than discovery and user stories. I build tools, PoCs, integrations, sometimes full apps. That hands-on work is how I learn where AI actually belongs and how to build systems around it.

Shop inventory & automation

Keep a live shop's stock and prices right — cheaply and reliably.

Syncs physical stock and prices into Shopify, recalculates cut-to-size product variants, flags anything that's gone negative, and emails suppliers a weekly restock plan. Python, Google Apps Script and Shopify, with secrets in Google Secret Manager and a full unit-test suite behind it.

Deliberately simple — the brief was "just work", and it does.

Geolocalization analyzer & maps

A decision-ready location report for a client.

Give it an address; it pulls land use, transport links and nearby competition from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps, routes the analysis across GPT-4o, Claude and Gemini, cross-checks their answers, and auto-generates a full PowerPoint, Word and interactive HTML deck — with sources cited.

End-to-end prototype — multi-model AI, real map data, a finished deliverable.

Price & trend predictor — TCG / CCG

Test whether a live trading-card market has a real, tradeable edge.

A daily price-history pipeline for a live trading-card-game market — Python, PostgreSQL, DuckDB, tens of millions of rows. A walk-forward backtest with a realistic spread model, an anti-bulk filter and zero look-ahead bias, so the signal you see is one you could actually have traded.

Sunset. Neither the analysis nor the signals held up.

Price & trend predictor — Solana

Read on-chain activity and turn it into a signal.

Pulls wallet and transaction data from Solana through API integrations, cleans and aggregates raw on-chain activity, and folds scattered chat threads and signals into one clean feed with alerts — trend analytics a non-engineer can read and act on.

Sunset. Neither the analysis nor the signals held up.

Customs & returns automation

Take the paperwork out of cross-border returns.

Automating the customs and returns handling behind a shop — declarations, documents and the operational back-and-forth that usually eats people's time, not just the storefront.

In progress — the next thing on the bench.

TMS tooling evaluation

Pick the right localization platform — without spending a developer to trial each one.

Integrated and ran Localizely, Crowdin, Localise and Tolgee end-to-end for a mobile app — tags, resources, namespaces, screenshots, projects — to judge fit hands-on rather than from a comparison table.

PoC done. A buy decision made on evidence, not vendor decks — no developer, the code as the documentation.

App-store reviews dashboard & analyzer

See what customers actually complain about — across stores and social, in one place.

Custom dashboard pulling customer reports and reviews from Google Play, the App Store and social, with charts and automatic clustering of recurring problems — so the top issues surface instead of hiding in a feed.

Thousands of reviews → a ranked problem list, statistics, charts and daily insights.

Closed-Loop Digital Brain

A product operating model where the wiki is the brain.

The wiki holds one shared context and a loop runs on top of it. Customer signals and decisions go in. Agents work inside the rules and turn them into tickets, docs, QA hints, release notes, support FAQs and status digests. The wiki keeps itself current as it goes. The product assistant I'm building already lives on that loop, reading app-store reviews and drafting the release notes.

A working concept. Full write-up in Thoughts, coming soon.
Where this is going

The thread under all of it is a product brain. One shared context, the wiki, with a loop on top. Signals go in, agents work inside the rules, product comes out, and the wiki keeps itself current.

The system is the easy part. The real question is when it's worth building at all. I'm building a product assistant on this loop. Full write-up in Thoughts, coming soon.

What I use
Build
Claude Code · Cursor · Python · MCP
Connect
Jira · Notion · Confluence · GitHub · Figma · Miro · Todoist · Slack · Calendar
Data
parsers · cleaning · aggregation · analysis · charts · insights
Generate
user stories · KPIs & OKRs · diagrams (UML / SVG / flows) · Figma mockups · decks (HTML / PPTX) · branding
Discovery
research synthesis · opportunity trees · hypotheses · PRD drafts
Skills library
branding · UX · stories · value pillars · CPO sparring · KPI · research
Automate
status digests · release notes · review clustering · QA checklists