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Ideas into action.

Autonomous agents, hands-on builds, and people bringing ideas to life.

Brian Leung: agents, direct implementation, and employees Brian's work branches into AI Agent Swarm, Direct Implementation, and Team Operations. AI Agent Swarm connects to Automated Direct Content Posting and Continuous News Aggregator. Direct Implementation connects to Employee Management, AI Agent CLI, AI Interview Hiring, and Hiring Pipeline. Employees work on projects. Brian Leung Ideas into action AI Agent Swarm Autonomous agents Direct Implementation Designed & built by me Team Operations People working on projects Automated DirectContent Posting Continuous NewsAggregator EmployeeManagement AI Agent CLI AI InterviewHiring Hiring Pipeline Outreach AI Custom CLI Portfolio Experience Workflow Automation Idea Lab

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cli / 002
company — ~/work/checkout-service

Company CLI

The coding agent our engineers work in: a Pi-based CLI wired into company login, the internal model gateway and a shared skills store. This card is a facsimile — the shell, repository and tool output are invented — and it runs two of the CLI's own prompts through LiteLLM for real.

Type
Interactive facsimile
Real parts
Prompt text + model call
Runs
Two fixed prompts
  • TypeScript
  • Agent tooling
  • LiteLLM
  • Developer experience
Run a real prompt Loading…

Two of the CLI's slash-command prompts, answered live by the company model gateway.

Facsimile, not the product. No visitor text is accepted; the model answer is the only real output here.

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cli-flow / 003
before after Install Node, npm, git first npm i -g company Update by hand when told Machines drift out of date One command: curl … | sh Sealed binary — no Node at all Updates on launch, manifest-checked Restart keeps your session the upgrade releases ship through the company's own pipeline

From “install a whole toolchain, then remember to update it” to one command that keeps itself current.

CLI flow upgrade

How the CLI moved from the usual npm-installed developer tool to a sealed, self-updating binary: no Node prerequisite, no manual update step, and no version drift between machines.

Type
Flow and architecture
Before
npm plus manual updates
After
Install once, stays current
  • Release engineering
  • Auto-update
  • CI/CD
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interview / 004
Ready

A two-question sample of the employee AI interview, served live by this portfolio's own backend.

Employee AI interview

The opening and closing prompts from the AI interview that screens our candidates, running here as a live two-question sample. It reuses the production shape — a versioned prompt definition, an anonymous run with a short time-to-live, and an explicit completion state — and swaps the voice channel for text.

Type
Live service preview
Backend
Rust + axum on Kubernetes
Runs
Anonymous, 15-minute TTL
  • Rust
  • axum
  • Kubernetes
  • API design
Live sample Ready when you are

    Anonymous, in memory for 15 minutes, never reviewed. Prompts play the interview's own audio.

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    Afterglow

    A browser-native room for shaping sound, light, and mood without getting lost in the controls.

    Type
    Creative tool
    Contribution
    Interaction + prototype
    Year
    2023
    • Interaction
    • Prototyping
    • Creative code
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    Drift Atlas

    A lightweight way to turn field notes into an explorable story, built for slow looking and small screens.

    Type
    Editorial experiment
    Contribution
    Art direction + code
    Year
    2023
    • Creative code
    • Art direction
    • Editorial
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    Lumen Field

    A bright, tactile home for a studio making better tools for a more considered future.

    Type
    Brand site
    Contribution
    Creative direction + code
    Year
    2024
    • Brand
    • Web design
    • Front-end
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    Northstar

    A signal-rich planning surface that turns a year of unknowns into a sequence of next steps.

    Type
    Data experience
    Contribution
    Product design + systems
    Year
    2024
    • Strategy
    • Interface
    • Systems
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    Soft Signal

    A quiet visual language for a research practice studying how people find their way home.

    Type
    Identity system
    Contribution
    Art direction
    Year
    2023
    • Identity
    • Art direction
    • Motion
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    Common Thread

    A warmer way for distributed teams to share context, ask for help, and keep moving together.

    Type
    Community platform
    Contribution
    UX + front-end
    Year
    2023
    • UX design
    • React
    • Research
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    Orbit House

    A living archive of ideas, people, and places connected by a shared sense of possibility.

    Type
    Digital publication
    Contribution
    Design + editorial
    Year
    2023
    • Editorial
    • Web design
    • Content
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    Quiet Hours

    A small ritual for making space to think, with just enough structure to return to yourself.

    Type
    Mobile experience
    Contribution
    Product design
    Year
    2022
    • Product
    • Mobile
    • Prototyping
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    Field Notes

    A flexible notebook for turning observations from the real world into useful shared knowledge.

    Type
    Research tool
    Contribution
    Interface + code
    Year
    2022
    • Research
    • Interface
    • Creative code
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    Counterpoint

    A focused workspace for teams to compare ideas honestly before choosing a direction.

    Type
    Collaboration tool
    Contribution
    Product strategy
    Year
    2022
    • Strategy
    • Product
    • Facilitation
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    Ghost Grid

    A flexible visual foundation that makes a growing family of tools feel like one coherent place.

    Type
    Design system
    Contribution
    Systems + front-end
    Year
    2022
    • Design systems
    • Tokens
    • Front-end
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    Mercury Room

    A digital room for gatherings, performances, and the conversations that stay after.

    Type
    Cultural platform
    Contribution
    Experience design
    Year
    2021
    • Experience
    • Interaction
    • Culture
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    Open Form

    A modular portfolio framework for a small group of makers who refuse to work in one medium.

    Type
    Portfolio system
    Contribution
    Design + development
    Year
    2021
    • Web design
    • CMS
    • Front-end
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    Halcyon

    A softer interface for building routines without turning rest into another performance metric.

    Type
    Wellness product
    Contribution
    Product design
    Year
    2021
    • Product
    • Prototyping
    • Research
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    Threadline

    A clear path through a dense body of work, built to reward curiosity without losing the thread.

    Type
    Knowledge base
    Contribution
    UX + information design
    Year
    2020
    • Information design
    • UX
    • Systems
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    Aster

    A tiny generative garden that gives shape to changing light, time, and attention.

    Type
    Creative coding
    Contribution
    Concept + code
    Year
    2020
    • Creative code
    • WebGL
    • Experiment
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    The Long Now

    A slow publication about the futures we choose to build, one considered story at a time.

    Type
    Editorial series
    Contribution
    Art direction + web
    Year
    2020
    • Editorial
    • Art direction
    • Web
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    Signal Garden

    A responsive field of light that lets a crowd see its collective movement in real time.

    Type
    Public installation
    Contribution
    Interaction + visual system
    Year
    2019
    • Installation
    • Interaction
    • Visuals
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    Relay

    A small, fast toolkit for passing ideas between people, platforms, and the next version of a project.

    Type
    Open-source tool
    Contribution
    Concept + front-end
    Year
    2019
    • Open source
    • Tooling
    • Front-end
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    Keep going

    Have a good problem?

    Tell me what you’re making, what feels stuck, or what you want to make more possible.

    How I manage teams

    Output first.

    Measure delivered work—not time online.

    Define the perfected state

    A clear target. A clear quality bar.

    Build lean

    The lowest cost that meets the standard.

    Think at scale

    Design beyond the first version.

    My management loop

    1. 01 / DefineDeliverable + deadline
    2. 02 / AssignOne accountable owner
    3. 03 / Review directlyReal output. Early checkpoints.
    4. 04 / RefineFeedback → repeatable process

    Plan for the next order of magnitude

    Design checkpoints—not current volumes. Users, tasks, or records, depending on the project.