Four work areas that connect my background to shipped projects: AI systems, product builds, analytics, and strategy work. Below them are the examples that show how I approach the work myself.
I organized the portfolio around four repeatable ways I work: mapping a problem, building the system, measuring whether it works, and explaining the decision behind it.
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AI & Automation
I see AI as a way to redefine worker success: more, faster, and better work. Deterministic tools create the reliable base; AI judgment compounds the benefit into actual ROI and growth.
Every work area above is backed by something I built, shaped, or analyzed. Here it is.
Agents & AI
03 builds
Autonomous systems that take a one-line instruction and carry real work to a finished, quality-checked result — plus a fully working mock that opens up the anatomy of an agent so you can watch one think.
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DeckForge
An autonomous agent that writes an equity research deck, critiques it, and rewrites it in a scoring loop until it is board-ready. Give it a prompt. It pulls real numbers from public filings, builds the deck, then improves it until the composite score clears the ship bar.
An autonomous product team built from agents. Five evidence-grounded lenses discover work, a strict intake filter rejects the slop, deterministic scoring ranks what survives, and a Builder-Reviewer-Reviser pipeline ships dev-ready stories sprint after sprint, looping until the backlog drains.
AI AgentsOrchestrationAutonomous BacklogAgentic Workflow
A working mock of an accounts-receivable agent, built to open up the anatomy of an autonomous system. It wakes itself every weekday, judges every past-due invoice, records each call to an append-only audit trail, and delivers a human-gated morning digest — then a weekly refinement pass writes better rules to a versioned memory. Click through the system map and watch a simulated daily run.
AI AgentReceivables & InvoicingAgent MemoryInteractive Demo
Consumer products and marketing sites, taken from concept through design to a shipped build, plus a practical guide for starting your own.
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How to Build Your First App
A beginner-friendly field guide for moving from an idea to a deployed application with an AI coding assistant. It covers product planning, local setup, living design documents, modular build loops, Git, automated deployment, and the point where repeated work should become an agent.
Field GuideAI DevelopmentGit & DeploymentProject Blueprint
A travel ranking app for logging cities, comparing past trips, and building a personal map of the places that still pull you forward. Altro turns travel memories into a clear, ranked view of taste and return energy.
A quiet home for novenas, daily reflection, honest journaling, and the grace to keep praying whether the answer is yes, no, or not yet. Nos gives structure without pressure and beauty without clutter.
The marketing website for the Altro travel app, designed and built end to end: positioning, copy, visual design, and a responsive single-page build that presents the app's ranked-city concept to new users.
A 15-slide workshop deck built to teach a nonprofit team to treat AI as a junior employee rather than a chat window. It covers the three layers that actually decide output, what a brand file looks like on screen, how a trigger plus a goal turns a rough draft into one you would have signed, and where the human stays: local agents, donor records, and the disclosure line worth writing before anyone asks.
What is Carter Shannon' approach to building products?
Carter Shannon builds products that start with a clear problem and end with a working solution. Each product is designed to solve a specific need for real users, built with a focus on clarity, functionality, and a direct path from idea to delivery. Every product Carter Shannon ships addresses something that was genuinely missing, never a hypothetical use case.
What is DeckForge and who is it for?
DeckForge is an autonomous AI agent that writes equity research decks, critiques its own output, and rewrites until the composite quality score clears a defined bar. It is designed for analysts, investors, and advisors who need board-ready research output without the manual iteration cycles that typically consume hours of analyst time.
What is Remit and is it a real product?
Remit is a fully working mock of an accounts-receivable agent, built to show the anatomy of an autonomous AI system rather than to sell one. It demonstrates the full loop: a scheduled run with no human prompt, a tool-calling reasoning engine, an append-only decision record for audit, a human-gated morning digest, and a weekly refinement pass that writes versioned rules to memory. The ledger data is simulated, but every component and interaction on the page mirrors how the production pattern works.
What is Altro and what problem does it solve?
Altro is a travel ranking and mapping app that solves the problem of travel memory being scattered and unstructured. Most people cannot tell you which cities they have visited in ranked order, or which ones they actually want to return to. Altro gives you a single ranked list of every city you have visited, a personal map colored by return energy, and the ability to compare trips side by side.
What is Nos and what makes it different from other prayer apps?
Nos is a prayer and journaling app centered on novenas and daily reflection. Unlike most prayer apps, Nos is built without streaks, guilt mechanics, or notifications designed to shame you for missing a day. It treats prayer as a relationship rather than a performance metric, providing structure without pressure and a clean, distraction-free experience.
