👋 Hi, I'm Tyler, a Product Manager in Denver.

I'm building an AI assistant that runs my life in the background and only interrupts me for decisions.

About

I spent the last decade as a PM, mostly at Instagram, where my team worked on how new connections turn into conversations. The part of the job I love is learning a space, forming a point of view, and inventing the product that follows from it.

Since leaving Meta I've been building that product for a customer of one: me. A set of agents now reads my inbox, watches job boards, tracks concert presales, runs the renovation paperwork, and brings me a short list of decisions each morning. I never let them send anything. I write about what that teaches me about where assistants are going.

Outside of work: 🍽️ cooking, 📚 reading, ⚽ soccer, 🤖 ai, 🥾 hiking, 🎸 live music, 👨‍👧 dad things.

Now · October 2026

Building in public through mid-December. This site, a first essay on the shape of a proactive assistant, and an open-source version of the Job Radar with the rubric and evals that make it work. Also talking to a few teams about short product-strategy engagements.

Writing

• Oct 2026The assistant I wanted doesn't have a chat boxThree months with an assistant that works while I sleep, and what it taught me about the shape of the thing.
• Coming soonThe assistant is already the front doorWhat happens to discovery when the assistant picks the gym.
• Coming soonFetch, score, bring only the decisionsOpen-sourcing the Job Radar and the evals behind it.

AI Projects

• liveCommand CenterOne page for every open project in my life, with a strict attention hierarchy and a reply box that starts an agent run.
• liveJob RadarDaily fetch of PM postings from ~20 companies, scored against a written rubric. Open source in November.
• liveConcert RadarPresale alerts for the artists I'd actually buy tickets for, code included.
• livePurchase advisorPressure-tests whether to buy at all, then finds the best real value. Never buys.
• buildingWhat's for DinnerEasy weeknight dinners, planned around what's already in the fridge and what's on sale, with the grocery list done.
• on deckHomeOS, Keep in TouchThe same loop for the house and for the people I'm bad at keeping up with.

Other stuff

• How I work with AI: the principles, the system diagrams, and the tools
• Reading list: everything I've read, by year, with the five-star books marked
• Year in review: public excerpts from the annual letter I write to friends and family