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Jeff Smith

Jeff Smith

Turn broken technical workflows into reliable systems.

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Research OS — Evidence-Driven AI Research Workflow The problem AI makes research dramatically faster, but speed creates new problems: duplicated work, unclear authority, unsupported conclusions, model drift, expensive context reconstruction, and findings that become detached from their evidence. What I built Research OS is a structured AI-assisted research workflow designed to move from question to evidence to decision while preserving state and provenance. The system combines: exploratory research model routing structured evidence capture machine-readable state staged escalation independent review where useful durable research artifacts explicit closeout and recovery Local models are used where they are sufficient, with more capable systems deliberately introduced when the task justifies them. Result The workflow has been applied across software architecture, technical research, security research, market analysis, and other long-running investigations. Its purpose is not to automate judgment away. It is to make research easier to resume, inspect, challenge, and reuse.
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Turning Tribal
Sales Territory Operating System Turning Tribal Sales Knowledge Into an Operating System The problem Sales territories often live across CRM records, spreadsheets, emails, rep memory, management expectations, and informal knowledge about who actually influences decisions. That makes prioritization and management visibility inconsistent. What I built I created a structured territory-planning system that translated those realities into an actionable operating model. The framework includes: Priority Strategy Stage Current Position Next Milestone Success Evidence Risk / Constraint Management Support I combined field knowledge with external research and structured the result around decisions and account movement rather than activity logging. Result Leadership asked to reuse the approach beyond my individual territory, and the workbook became a company-ready planning format. This portfolio version uses sanitized or synthetic information and does not expose employer-confidential account data.
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TruthFast — AI Agent Containment & Assurance Reference System The problem How can organizations get meaningful benefit from increasingly capable AI agents without simply handing those agents unlimited trust? What I built TruthFast is a reference system exploring identity, authorization, containment, artifact integrity, execution boundaries, evidence, and deterministic validation for agentic workflows. My work centered on problem definition, architecture, specification, AI-agent orchestration, acceptance criteria, runtime evaluation, and repeated adversarial review. Coding agents performed much of the implementation work. Process The architecture evolved through multiple generations rather than one-shot implementation. Design ideas were explored conversationally, progressively formalized into specifications, implemented through coding agents, exercised against real runtime behavior, and challenged through hostile review. When evidence contradicted the intended architecture, the implementation was repaired, replaced, or redesigned rather than preserved for sunk-cost reasons. Result A substantial working reference architecture with repeatable validation and qualified runtime evidence on tested revisions. TruthFast is intentionally presented as a reference system, not a turnkey enterprise product. A real enterprise deployment would require integration with that organization’s infrastructure, identity systems, operational constraints, and risk model.
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