Blake Hallisey · How I use AI
When a recruiter asks how I use AI day to day
The same operating model, at Sephora
3 months → 1-2 weeks

PRD-to-story cycles, after I deployed the agent stack inside a regulated fintech program.

I build the tools I work with.

A small operating system for my own work: one feed that keeps pace with the field, agents that work with me in the loop, one interface that routes it. It's how I'd run a product.

01 · Learn
01

Staying on the frontier of a field that moves weekly

I built my own learning surfaces: one keeps me reading the frontier, one keeps my own work a layer deeper than the résumé.

the feed

Uptake

A fresh, personalized feed every day, generated on a 6am cron from the people and subjects I follow.

6am cron → drop.json → Vercel · personalized generation
the drill

Blake Academy

I hold my own work to a documented standard, broken down past the artifact, the same rigor I bring to a roadmap.

generated from 4 wings · master-your-own-story
02 · Reach out
02

Agents in production, with me in the loop

Every agent here drafts; I decide. Nothing goes out without me.

the voice

Outreach Agent

Reads a recruiter thread, detects cold, warm, or a follow-up, then drafts the reply in my own voice straight into Gmail. I read it, tweak it, send it.

draft-only · Gmail MCP · per-recipient register
the portfolio

Ask Blake

An agent built on my actual work that a recruiter can question.

Claude-powered persona · career-arc spine
03 · Rehearse
03

A feedback loop I run on myself

Two agents get me ready before a room; a ledger feeds every rep into the next one.

builds the room

Case

Assembles a live dossier on whoever I'm about to meet, the company, the product, so I walk in from a real brief, not a guess.

Gmail + web + résumé · Claude persona · living doc
drills the reps

Dex

A technical-fluency coach: name the architecture, trace the data path, own the tradeoff, until that's just how I talk.

practice ledger → notes → the next rep · closes the loop
04 · The engine
04

How it all holds together

I don't remember agent names or juggle a dozen tools. There is one front door.

the desk

Jarvis, the orchestrator

One seat I talk to like a chief of staff: I say what I want, it routes to the right specialist, and brings back one answer. I stay on the decision boundary for messages, applications, and public work.

intent routing · shared records · scoped tools · Claude Code + MCP · guardrails
And the day layer: a Daybook and a morning routine keep the tools used every day, not just built.
The stack, briefly · for the technical read

The working stack behind the system.

I designed the data flow, the agent boundaries, and the guardrails underneath it, including a delete-nothing rule so no automation can lose my data.

Claude API Claude Code agents MCP tool servers git + JSON spine launchd crons Vercel draft-only guardrails
Go look yourself

Six tools for when the agent works and nobody's watching.

The unattended part is narrow, on purpose: each of these six exists because something went wrong once, and a note in a document turned out not to be a control.

A prompt is a request. Code is a rule.

Everything on this page is running right now.
Built and used by Blake Hallisey · the tools I work with, not a portfolio of demos.