Writing
Notes on product, platforms, and building with AI.
Essays on scoping, designing with AI, writing PRDs, planning, and collaborating with engineers.
Agentic Architecture for Athena
How I designed Athena as a product-facing agent system: workflow-first orchestration, explicit artifacts, and UX that helps humans and AI collaborate.
agents architecture product-design orchestration
Building RAG Systems That Are Actually Usable
A practical look at the retrieval layer behind Athena: ingestion, metadata, reranking, MCP tool surfaces, and why good RAG systems are workflow products.
rag retrieval mcp developer-tools