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Portfolio

A selection of products I've built and AI prototypes I've explored. More info: LinkedIn - email.

Products

Even Mind

A consumer mental health app for people with mood disorders (bipolar, depression). I identified a gap in how patients and providers monitor and understand disease progression. Existing tools captured a patient's memory of their mood, not their mood directly. Even Mind uses randomized momentary assessments to build a more accurate and detailed picture of mood and energy levels over time.

Grew to 16,000 users as a solo PM/engineer. Analyzed 5,400+ personal mood and energy data points to uncover temporal patterns (day-of-week, time-of-day) that informed feature prioritization and helped validate the core product thesis around granular self-tracking.

Sidebar

A mobile logbook designed for quick capture, helping users offload thoughts so they can stay present. The product thesis: most note-taking apps optimize for organization, but the real friction is at the moment of capture. Sidebar strips away folders, tags, and formatting to reduce the gap between thought and record to near zero.

AI Prototypes

Hands-on explorations of AI product patterns, built to sharpen my intuition for what works (and what doesn't) when designing around LLM capabilities.

Journal Entry Analyzer

A private, CBT-inspired reflection tool that gives structured feedback on journal entries. Explores how to make AI feedback feel supportive rather than clinical, and how structured JSON output from the API can power a consistent, trustworthy UI even when the underlying model output varies.

Built with Claude API · Structured output · Prompt engineering

Resume Parser

Normalizes uploaded resumes into a clean, uniform format so reviewers can focus on substance over styling. A study in using AI to reduce bias in a familiar workflow, and in handling PDF upload, extraction, and structured rendering end-to-end.

Built with Claude API · PDF processing · Document parsing

RICE Prioritization Plotter

Interactive tool for visualizing and comparing tasks across RICE dimensions (Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort). The goal was to make the framework more intuitive by plotting items spatially rather than reducing them to a single score.

Built with Claude · Data visualization · PM frameworks

Traditional Mood Tracker

A simple mood tracker with charting, built to explore tradeoffs between how Even Mind works and more traditional mood tracking products.

Built with Claude · React · Charting

Draw-a-Bit

A retro Etch A Sketch clone with mobile-responsive controls. A quick creative build to test the boundaries of what's possible with AI-assisted prototyping in a single short session.

Built with Claude · Canvas · Mobile-responsive