What are AI agents and agentic systems, anyway?
A plain-English explanation of AI agents, agentic systems, and what makes them different from chatbots—plus the production lessons people skip.
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I write about building and shipping AI applications from three main perspectives, also referred to as Tracks: engineering, business, and product.
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Aug 21, 2026 · 8 min read
GovCon Leads Radar — Fast and cheap, not just promised but guaranteed
How GovCon Leads Radar turned speed and cost promises into enforceable, measurable guarantees users can hold it to.
Product
GovCon Leads Radar DesignAug 21, 2026 · 6 min read
GovCon Leads Radar — When 'safe AI' means knowing when it's wrong
Why an AI copilot's real safety test isn't preventing every mistake — it's catching and recovering from the ones it can't avoid.
Product
GovCon Leads Radar DesignAug 19, 2026 · 9 min read
GovCon Leads Radar — Designing an AI that proposes, never decides
How I built GovCon Leads Radar's AI layer to support judgment without ever making the call for the seller.
Product
GovCon Leads Radar DesignAug 19, 2026 · 8 min read
GovCon Leads Radar — When a design step assumes a robot that doesn't exist
GovCon Leads Radar's approval flow almost got designed around a feature the product doesn't have. Here's what shipped instead.
Product
GovCon Leads Radar DesignAug 18, 2026 · 11 min read
GovCon Leads Radar — Locking the stack, closing the first phase
How I closed out the strategy phase for GovCon Leads Radar by locking the stack, budgets, and a risk register before writing a line of build code.
Product
GovCon Leads Radar StrategyAug 17, 2026 · 10 min read
GovCon Leads Radar — Choosing the first workflow to build, and mapping it
Why I picked one daily workflow first, and what mapping it revealed about the judgment calls sellers actually make.
Product
GovCon Leads Radar StrategyAug 14, 2026 · 8 min read
GovCon Leads Radar — Turning three business goals into a testable build order
How I turned GovCon Leads Radar's revenue, trust, and growth goals into testable assumptions before writing code.
Product
GovCon Leads Radar StrategyAug 14, 2026 · 9 min read
GovCon Leads Radar — The bottleneck wasn't data. It was judgment.
How I figured out GovCon Leads Radar's real bottleneck, locked its product category, and turned goals into metrics.
Product
GovCon Leads Radar Strategy