Two products I built and run
Both are live today. I designed them, wrote them, and host them, so they're the clearest picture of what working with me produces.
Cairn Federal
What it is
Cairn Federal helps small businesses find and win government contracts and grants. Before it, the routine was scrolling government websites by hand, tracking opportunities in a spreadsheet, and doing the deadline math in someone's head.
What the AI does
- Reads a long solicitation, pulls every requirement into a checklist, and proposes an outline for the response. Then it stops until a person approves, edits, or rejects that outline.
- Writes first drafts of proposal sections from the company's own approved past work, not invented claims.
- Learns the company's writing style from past proposals. It picks up the tone and never the facts or client names.
- Researches each new opportunity and the people listed on it, and summarizes the attached documents.
- Checks every week for government contracts that are about to expire and names who holds them now, so there's time to prepare a bid.
- Pulls past award history to support the decision on whether to bid. Its suggested scores wait for someone to sign off.
- Includes an assistant that answers questions about the pipeline and can make changes, but it lists exactly what it's about to do and waits for a yes.
Everything else it does
- Scores every opportunity from 0 to 100 against what the company does, and shows the reasons.
- Flags opportunities the company isn't eligible for instead of quietly ranking them.
- Fills in the company profile from a single government registration number.
- Tracks each pursuit from first look to submission, with bid or no-bid checkpoints along the way.
- Gives the proposal team version history, a requirements checklist, and structured review rounds.
- Builds the final submission package in one step, and won't finish it while must-fix items are still open.
- Files grant applications electronically, straight into the government's system.
- Handles team roles, email alerts for saved searches, passkey sign-in, and a phone app.
What that means for your project
If your business runs on a slow, paperwork-heavy process, this is the pattern I'd bring to it: the AI does the reading and the first draft, and your people make the decisions.
ProvisionSync
What it is
ProvisionSync is one home for a food brand's product information: nutrition facts, ingredients, allergens, photos, and where to buy. When a recipe changes, the brand updates it once and every website that shows it updates too. Stale PDFs and hand-edited nutrition tables go away.
What the AI does
- Reads the brand's own website and suggests three on-brand looks for its product displays.
- Looks across the web for recipes that use the brand's products, confirms each page really exists, and puts the finds in a review queue. Nothing goes live until a person has checked it.
- Helps build the forms a brand uses to collect information.
- Offers an optional assistant that can make changes for the brand, and it saves a backup first so any change can be undone.
Everything else it does
- Nutrition labels, and nutrition menus for the whole product line, that drop into an existing Squarespace, Wix, or WordPress site with a copy-and-paste snippet.
- A store locator on a map.
- Keeps product data in step with retailers and distributors such as Kroger, Walmart, Amazon, and Instacart, and sends product photos out to them.
- Recipes, events, FAQs, and forms that collect submissions.
- Separate logins and roles for each member of the brand's team, and a look that matches each brand.
What that means for your project
If the same information lives in five places and someone keeps it in sync by hand, that's fixable. You change it once, and everything else follows.