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Case study 01 / AI product / Founder productivity

FounderPilot

Working prototype

The right information. The right action. The founder stays in control.

A local-first AI Chief of Staff for small-business founders, bringing important tasks, signals and pending decisions into one attention system.

Editorial illustration of the project’s focus.

01 / Context

The problem

A small-business founder needs to decide which overdue invoice, lead or task deserves attention without rebuilding the picture from separate records each morning.

02 / Ownership

My contribution

Product architecture, attention prioritisation, local-first workflows, decision support and the human approval experience.

The founder workflow

  • Import and review local lead, invoice and task records.
  • Rank the items that deserve attention and explain why each matters.
  • Suggest a next action with its context retained.
  • Let the founder approve, edit, skip or snooze the suggestion.

What I built

Built a local-first Windows desktop prototype with a dashboard, CSV imports, attention ranking and a reviewable action queue.

  • Local dashboard and CSV validation, rule-based ranking, copy-ready drafts, task handling and an encrypted workspace.
  • Optional calendar and AI integrations have separate setup and consent boundaries.

Important product decisions

  • Separate suggestions from execution: the founder can approve, edit, skip or snooze a proposal.
  • Protect workspace records with encryption at rest. Browser memory notes are a separate, unencrypted local feature.

What the prototype demonstrates

A working local prototype under iteration. No customer adoption, time saving or revenue uplift is claimed here.

  • The local implementation contains CSV validation, deterministic ranking and approval-queue modules, with documented data boundaries.
  • Approvals create local drafts or local task entries. Any recovered amount entered by a founder is self-reported, not independently verified revenue.

The idea to carry forward

An intelligent system should improve a founder’s ability to decide, not take control away from them.

Working local prototype. Illustrations in this portfolio explain its workflow; they are not a connection to the desktop application. Approval creates local drafts or task entries, with no automatic sending. No customer adoption or commercial uplift is claimed.