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Apr 16 2025 4 min read

BEACON — Executive Intelligence & Decision-Support Agent: Build Process 1

Built BEACON, a natural-language interface to a live PostgreSQL/Airflow warehouse so executives could ask operational and financial questions directly instead of waiting on analysts or static dashboards: The first implementation step and the tradeoff that made it worth shipping.

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Apr 5 2025 4 min read

AI Coaching & Revenue Automation Platform: Discovery

Built an AI layer over the coaching sales funnel that read a student's board-exam performance, recommended the right coaching, and handled early qualification automatically — with a defined hand-off to human advisors: How the problem surfaced, what the evidence showed, and why the old path stopped holding up.

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Mar 17 2025 4 min read

BEACON — Executive Intelligence & Decision-Support Agent: Propose Solution

Built BEACON, a natural-language interface to a live PostgreSQL/Airflow warehouse so executives could ask operational and financial questions directly instead of waiting on analysts or static dashboards: Why the chosen direction fit the constraint better than patching around the edges.

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Feb 15 2025 5 min read

AI Coaching & Revenue Automation Platform: Introduction

Built an AI layer over the coaching sales funnel that read a student's board-exam performance, recommended the right coaching, and handled early qualification automatically — with a defined hand-off to human advisors: A practical overview of the system, the constraint that shaped it, and the work flow behind the build.

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Feb 15 2025 4 min read

BEACON — Executive Intelligence & Decision-Support Agent: Discovery

Built BEACON, a natural-language interface to a live PostgreSQL/Airflow warehouse so executives could ask operational and financial questions directly instead of waiting on analysts or static dashboards: How the problem surfaced, what the evidence showed, and why the old path stopped holding up.

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Jan 15 2025 5 min read

BEACON — Executive Intelligence & Decision-Support Agent: Introduction

Built BEACON, a natural-language interface to a live PostgreSQL/Airflow warehouse so executives could ask operational and financial questions directly instead of waiting on analysts or static dashboards: A practical overview of the system, the constraint that shaped it, and the work flow behind the build.

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