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Whitebox

  • ecommerce
  • taxonomy
  • recommendations

Visual product attribute classification for ecommerce, built around transparent taxonomy-driven scoring and recommendations.

problem

Ecommerce catalogs are full of ambiguous visual attributes that are easy for humans to see and painful for systems to classify consistently.

insight

The useful unit is not a magical label. It is a visible taxonomy decision with enough reasoning that a merchandiser can challenge it.

system

A classification workflow that combines visual analysis, structured attributes, scoring, and recommendation logic without hiding the taxonomy.

result

A product direction where AI output becomes inspectable business infrastructure instead of a black-box content generator.

what I learned

Trust grows when people can see the system's categories, not just the system's confidence.

  • maps
  • business visualization
  • founders

Turns business locations and address lists into high-quality designed maps for founders and companies.

problem

Business geography often lives in spreadsheets, screenshots, or ugly default maps that fail to tell the strategic story.

insight

A map becomes useful when it is designed as communication, not when it merely proves coordinates exist.

system

Address ingestion, geocoding, styling, export logic, and designed map outputs built for founders who need to explain distribution, growth, or coverage.

result

A practical product wedge around turning operational data into something people can understand in one glance.

what I learned

Design is not decoration here. It is the difference between data storage and decision support.

Babylog

  • parenting
  • mobile thinking
  • personal ops

A young-father-at-night product for tracking baby care with less friction and more humane defaults.

problem

Most baby tracking tools treat exhausted parents like data-entry clerks with unlimited attention.

insight

The best interface for tired people is the one that assumes partial focus, repetition, and tiny windows of time.

system

A lightweight product exploration around quick capture, practical summaries, and caregiver handoff.

result

A proving ground for building personal software that respects the user's actual energy level.

what I learned

Real constraints make product taste sharper. Sleep deprivation is a brutal UX reviewer.

  • Belgium
  • operations
  • automation

Operational automation around a Belgian photobooth business: quotes, invoices, customer communication, and event readiness.

problem

Small businesses lose hours in follow-up, quoting, scheduling, and checking whether event details are actually complete.

insight

AI becomes valuable when it attaches to the operational moments where work already gets dropped.

system

CRM-aware workflows for opportunity review, quote and invoice drafting, French customer communication, and logistics completeness checks.

result

Proof that the same AI principles apply outside software labs, where the work is concrete and the mistakes are visible.

what I learned

Automation earns trust when it helps the owner move faster without pretending to own the customer relationship.

  • agents
  • orchestration
  • assistants

Exploration of orchestration patterns for autonomous assistants, tool use, context routing, and practical boundaries.

problem

Agent demos often look smart because the task is staged. Production work has messy tools, partial context, and consequences.

insight

The core question is not whether an agent can act. It is when it should act, how it knows enough, and where it stops.

system

Experiments with assistants, tool calls, execution loops, context loading, and human review points.

result

Sharper intuition for where agents help, where they create risk, and how to describe them without mythology.

what I learned

Agents are less like employees and more like workflow muscles: powerful when attached to a skeleton.

  • business vision
  • AI literacy
  • upskilling

GenAI Principal work focused on business vision, responsible adoption, and employee upskilling at enterprise scale.

problem

A serious company cannot adopt GenAI through vibes. It needs shared understanding, clear business direction, and practical enablement.

insight

The adoption problem is partly technical, but mostly organizational: people need language, judgment, and confidence.

system

Public-safe summary: GenAI Principal at N-SIDE, helping shape business vision and upskill around 200 employees.

result

A practical adoption role focused on making AI understandable, useful, and connected to business value.

what I learned

AI adoption works best when employees understand both the opportunity and the limits.