Hi, I'm Kurt. I lead a team that's going AI-native.

I run Product & Engineering at an Ed Tech SaaS company in Chicago. In February, AI went from something my team tried to something we build with, and I have been learning in public ever since.

Once a month I write up what I learned: what moved, what broke, and what I got wrong. The numbers come with their caveats attached.

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  1. 2026
    Feb

    Eureka! AI Turned a Corner

    A two-day AI deep dive only needed two hours. Two weeks later a 36-hour feature shipped in three. What I saw in the room, and why a quarter century of process thinking evaporated.

    5 min