Retrieval & knowledge
Grounded answers over documents and structured data—with ingestion, hybrid search, citations, permissions, and freshness designed into the experience.
AI product designer & developer · Texas, USA
I design AI products that retrieve, reason, act—and show their work.
From retrieval-powered products and agentic workflows to multimodal tools, evals, safeguards, and the interface in between.
Live AI system / HeatSignal
A working environmental-intelligence demo: resolve any searchable location, pull current public weather and modeled air-quality data, calculate heat risk, and expose every step of the workflow.
Search cities and postal codes worldwide to turn latest-available weather and modeled air-quality data into a transparent heat-risk snapshot.
What I build
A useful AI product is more than a model call. It needs reliable context, appropriate tools, clear permissions, measurable quality, and a thoughtful role for human judgment.
Grounded answers over documents and structured data—with ingestion, hybrid search, citations, permissions, and freshness designed into the experience.
Tool-using agents that plan, act, retry, and hand off with explicit state, scoped permissions, approval gates, and reliable fallbacks.
Interfaces that combine text, images, audio, and structured inputs so people can work naturally across messy real-world information.
Task-based eval sets, tracing, failure analysis, guardrails, and review queues that reveal when a system is uncertain or needs a person.
Independent product lab
Four working public-data products that turn live evidence into useful decisions—without hiding the source, freshness, limitations, or role of human judgment.
Latest Texas grid intelligence from federal hourly data
Voltline turns EIA-930 hourly submissions for Texas into a clear view of demand, day-ahead forecast, net generation, total interchange, and recent load movement.
Connecting to the latest available EIA-930 data for Texas…
How the AI works
A cached read-only service retrieves the public EIA Hourly Electric Grid Monitor feed for ERCO, validates the payload, aligns demand with forecast and other signals by reporting hour, and applies transparent variance and recent-range logic.
Human control & safety
The interface never calls a public-data pattern a reliability alert, reserve margin, or dispatch recommendation. Data latency and official operator ownership stay visible.
How I would evaluate it
Source freshness · schema validation · timestamp integrity · graceful recovery
Live environmental intelligence for heat-aware decisions anywhere
HeatSignal turns a city, region, or postal code into a current, source-backed snapshot of temperature, heat index, air quality, and practical next steps.
How the AI works
A client-side orchestration flow geocodes the search, retrieves current weather and modeled air-quality data in parallel, calculates the NWS heat index when conditions meet its threshold, classifies risk, and keeps the data sources visible.
Human control & safety
Modeled data is labeled honestly, missing values remain visible, no personal health outcome is predicted, and official NWS, AirNow, and local guidance stays one click away.
How I would evaluate it
API integrity · location accuracy · calculation tests · failure recovery
A public-data vehicle safety and recall research assistant
FieldLens turns a 17-character VIN into a readable vehicle identity, matching federal recall campaigns, urgent Park It or Park Outside flags, and safe next steps.
Enter a VIN to turn NHTSA identity data and matching recall campaigns into a readable safety brief.
How the AI works
A two-stage retrieval workflow validates and decodes the VIN through NHTSA vPIC, uses the decoded year, make, and model to retrieve federal recall campaigns, then structures official issue, consequence, and remedy text into a prioritized brief.
Human control & safety
A year/make/model match is never presented as VIN-specific open-recall status. The product sends the VIN only to NHTSA, stores nothing locally, and routes final confirmation to NHTSA or a dealer.
How I would evaluate it
VIN validation · campaign recall · warning fidelity · empty/error states
A live technical preflight and website risk-signal auditor
SceneCraft inspects any public website and separates technical readiness, accountability hints, external reference signals, RDAP context, header posture, and common scam-risk patterns into explainable results.
Enter any public website to inspect technical readiness, accountability hints, external reference signals, RDAP context, header posture, and common scam-risk patterns.
How the AI works
A protected server workflow verifies public DNS on every hop, streams bounded public HTML, follows validated redirects, discovers authoritative registration data through IANA RDAP, compares Cloudflare malware-filter DNS, adds MDN header evidence, and applies versioned deterministic scoring with visible evidence for every warning.
Human control & safety
Positive transparency never cancels a high-impact warning. Results are presented as observable signals—not a truth score, scam probability, safety guarantee, security certification, or accusation about the site operator.
How I would evaluate it
False-positive rate · coverage honesty · signal precision · explanation usefulness
Every product above retrieves latest-available public data and shows its method. HeatSignal uses Open-Meteo and NWS heat-index logic; Voltline uses EIA-930; FieldLens uses NHTSA; SceneCraft inspects a submitted public page, authoritative RDAP registration data, Cloudflare malware-filter DNS, and Mozilla Observatory results. Data can be delayed, revised, incomplete, or unavailable. These are independent products—not client engagements, emergency guidance, professional advice, safety guarantees, or production performance claims.
How I work
The strongest AI experiences make context, state, uncertainty, permissions, and human judgment visible—not magical.
Define the user decision, source of truth, acceptable failure, and what should remain human.
Connect trusted context, tools, and permissions. Make citations and provenance part of the product.
Build the smallest end-to-end workflow and make the system’s state visible in the interface.
Test quality, cost, latency, safety, and failure modes against representative tasks and a non-AI baseline.
Add feedback loops, human escalation, monitoring, and versioned changes before expanding autonomy.
Start with the problem
If you’re exploring a knowledge product, an agentic workflow, a multimodal experience, or a role where this thinking matters, I’d like to hear what needs to work—and what cannot fail.
Available for focused product design, rapid prototyping, and AI system collaboration from Texas, USA.
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