TalkingPoints
70% lower Snowflake cost; self-service analytics; a new attendance product data surface.
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Field records from four connected practices.
The flagship stories show depth. The full index shows range and maturity without pretending every experiment is a finished product.
Flagship index
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Nahual + Garita
One inspectable operating picture across local agents, web, Telegram, and GitHub.
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A working hardware system moved from prototype into café and bar pilots.
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Publishing and teaching useful technical ideas in Spanish since 2018.
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Public-serving data & decision systems
Infrastructure, analytics, and AI operations that make consequential work easier to inspect and act on.
flagship2022–2026
Data Infrastructure Modernization
A young data platform had to become reliable and affordable as usage grew.
70% Snowflake cost reduction with near-real-time data freshness.
Open recordflagship2022–2026
Partner Analytics Platform
School partners and internal teams needed answers without a queue of ad-hoc requests.
More than 50% fewer ad-hoc requests across five-plus enterprise partners.
Open recordshipped2022–2026
Enterprise System Integration
Customer context was fragmented across systems with conflicting identifiers.
Unified customer context across Salesforce, PlanHat, Customer.io, and support.
Open recordflagship2024–2026
Attendance API & Product
A new attendance product needed a stable data API while the product was still moving.
Enabled a new product vertical and held up under back-to-school traffic.
Open recordshipped2025–2026
Long-Term Impact Research
Product decisions needed stronger evidence about long-term student outcomes.
Moved impact conversations from intuition toward inspectable evidence.
Open recordshipped2024–2026
AI/ML Data Operations
AI classifiers and translation evaluation needed human review and visible costs.
Made quality, cost, and tradeoffs reviewable before automation reached users.
Open record02
Agent-native tools & operating systems
Tools that hold context, expose evidence, and leave judgment with the person using them.
flagship2024–2026
Attendance API & Product
A new attendance product needed a stable data API while the product was still moving.
Enabled a new product vertical and held up under back-to-school traffic.
Open recordshipped2024–2026
AI/ML Data Operations
AI classifiers and translation evaluation needed human review and visible costs.
Made quality, cost, and tradeoffs reviewable before automation reached users.
Open recordflagship2025–Present
Nahual + Garita
Project context was scattered across repositories, devices, agents, and browser tabs.
The same operating picture now serves local agents, web, and Telegram.
Open recordworkbench2024–Present
Kishmish/Amoxcalli
Capturing a thought should not require opening another distracting screen.
Version 0.4 hardware is in hands-on testing.
Open recordpilot2024–Present
Fieldnotes
Lesson planning tools hide pedagogy inside blank documents or opaque generation.
A working public lesson-design surface is available to try.
Open recordworkbench2024–Present
Alnilam
Professional reflection loses the evidence already present in daily work.
Open-source CLI used as an active personal workbench.
Open record03
Product, hardware & small-business software
Physical and digital products designed around real operating constraints, not imaginary scale.
flagship2024–Present
Relod
Food businesses need to know what is running low without heavyweight inventory work.
Working hardware moved from prototype into café and bar pilots.
Open recordworkbench2024–Present
Kishmish/Amoxcalli
Capturing a thought should not require opening another distracting screen.
Version 0.4 hardware is in hands-on testing.
Open record04
Bilingual teaching, writing & community
Spanish-first technical education that makes practical knowledge useful without flattening its complexity.
flagship2018–Present
Tacos de Datos
Useful data and AI knowledge is still too often gated by English and insider language.
Eight years of practical Spanish-language publishing and teaching.
Open recordpilot2024–Present
Fieldnotes
Lesson planning tools hide pedagogy inside blank documents or opaque generation.
A working public lesson-design surface is available to try.
Open record