5 Apr 2026
Your AI project failed. Good.
Most AI projects fail — and the failure itself is the most valuable thing they produce. When AI breaks down in your organisation, it's pointing directly at the structural problems you need to fix.
I'm Mitchell, a full-stack AI Software Engineer.
I design, develop and ship practical AI systems that cut manual work and improve margins. My focus: small, verifiable wins that go live fast, then scale. If you need a developer that knows what to build and why, let's talk.
1 Apr 2026
Faster busywork is still busywork
BCG found that only 5% of companies generate substantial value from AI, despite widespread adoption. The difference isn't which tools they bought — it's whether they redesigned how work gets done or just made broken processes run faster.
29 Mar 2026
The execution surplus
AI has made execution nearly free. Most companies respond by producing more mediocre output, faster. The winners invest the surplus in judgment — knowing what to build, what to ship, and what to kill.
25 Mar 2026
The verification tax
AI makes generating output almost free. But every AI output still needs checking — and checking doesn't scale with compute. The verification tax is the hidden cost most businesses ignore when deploying AI.
22 Mar 2026
Your AI can't use what was never written down
Eighty percent of what runs your business has never been documented. AI forces that knowledge debt to come due — and the 95% pilot failure rate is the invoice.
20 Mar 2026
The Agency Gap: Why the Best AI Products Make You More Powerful, Not More Passive
80,508 people told Anthropic they want productivity from AI. When pressed on why, they described wanting their lives back. Most AI products are built for the stated need. The winners are built for the real one.
Projects
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- doyaken-cli
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- A standalone multi-project autonomous agent CLI that delivers working code through an 8-phase pipeline. Install once, use on any project.
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- lofield.fm
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- Create lofi beats using natural language. Just describe what you want, and AI generates the music for you.
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- launchonomy
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- A system for orchestrating AI agents to complete "missions" through consensus driven decision-making and workflow automation.
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- pitchplease
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- A Next.js app and Agentic AI workflow for uploading a pitch deck and turning it into a AI generated video, with voiceover and narrator.
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- inbox-triage-extension
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- Triage your inbox with AI-powered email summaries, attachment analysis, and reply drafts - all processed locally for complete privacy.
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- agentic-commerce-protocol
- Description
- RFC: Fulfilment for the Agentic Commerce Protocol - defines the fulfilment lifecycle (order confirmation, shipment, delivery, returns), agent↔merchant messages, and state transitions.
Work
- Company
- AI Product Engineer
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- Start-ups / Scale-ups
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- Full-stack Product Engineer
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- Start-ups / Scale-ups
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- UX/UI Designer / Front-end Developer
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- Enterprise Technology
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