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Date

Title / Description

2026-06-30

A tax workspace that won't trust a number until it's verified

I built a local-first tool that turns a household's pile of tax paperwork into a checked, source-attributed dataset. The interesting part is not the parsing. It is that nothing gets trusted until it earns it, and every derived number remembers where it came from.

2026-06-18

Don't trust your agents. Make them prove it.

The through-line in everything I build right now: you do not trust an agent because it sounds right, you build the system that makes it show its work. What that looks like in practice, from a kids-camp directory to enterprise AI.

2026-05-20

Agents on the factory floor (ProveIT)

How we turned raw plant telemetry into an agent that flags anomalies, walks operators through fixes, and files the work order. Built for glass and pharma manufacturing, shown in a partner keynote, and then torn apart in a workshop the next day.

2026-01-12

Building this site (with AI)

A deep dive into the stack behind briananderson.xyz - SvelteKit, Tailwind, Catppuccin, and Agentic workflows.