Applied AI Systems Builder | Agentic AI | Human-AI Collaboration
I'm an independent AI systems builder focused on agent architectures, persistent memory, structured model workflows, and human-AI collaboration.
My work centers on a recurring question: How do we make AI systems capable of doing meaningful work over time without asking one giant model call to do everything?
A local-first human-AI collaboration environment for developing complex projects through natural conversation.
Mind Meld explores persistent project memory, bounded AI agents, explicit authority boundaries, context retrieval, structured model workflows, and the separation of AI judgment from deterministic system control.
An experimental game and AI research project exploring small-model autonomous agents, learned behavior, and natural-language tactical coaching.
The long-term research question is how much useful autonomous behavior can be achieved with very small models capable of running on constrained hardware.
A predecessor multi-agent research system exploring hierarchical decomposition, specialized agents, persistent retrieval, routing, synthesis, and incremental artifact production.
Lessons from Crankshaft directly informed the collaboration-first architecture of Project Mind Meld.
Independent research into relational structure among embedded informational states, structural movement over time, and cross-embedding comparison.
This work resulted in four filed provisional patent applications.
- Agentic AI systems
- Human-AI collaboration
- Persistent AI memory
- LLM orchestration
- Context retrieval and bounded context
- AI evaluation and reliability
- Tool-use and workflow design
- Small-model experimentation
- AI-assisted software development
My strongest work is in systems architecture, problem decomposition, workflow design, model behavior analysis, testing strategy, and defining the boundary between AI judgment and deterministic software authority.
I use AI coding agents extensively to implement and test the systems I design while continuing to develop my own programming proficiency.
Columbus, Ohio | Open to remote applied-AI opportunities