Gate B4Writing

Writing

Short notes on delivering AI products, running evaluations, prioritizing under uncertainty, and lessons that took a while to land.

• OCT 06October 6, 20261 min read

  What makes a portfolio project inspectable?

  A practical review guide for scope, ownership, evidence, and limitations.

  • Learning
  • Tradeoffs
  • Evidence
• OCT 06October 6, 20262 min read

  Product teardown — from a rough brief to a reviewable PRD

  A design review of the workflow described for Briefly PRD AI, with open evaluation questions.

  • Product teardown
  • AI
  • PRD
• AUG 20August 20, 20262 min read

  How I gate LLM releases without slowing the team down

  An eval-gated release loop that catches regressions before rollout, without turning every deploy into a research project.

  • LLM eval
  • Release management
  • Delivery
• JUL 14July 14, 20262 min read

  RICE breaks a little when the feature is an LLM

  Reach and confidence stop meaning what they used to. Here is the version of RICE I actually use for AI features.

  • RICE
  • Prioritization
  • AI product