Welcome to the Build: Why I'm Doing This in Public

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:20:00 -0400

If you’ve stumbled onto this blog, here’s what you need to know: this is not a finished product. It’s a construction site — and I’m inviting you in.

Over the past several months I’ve been building LUMIS, my personal AI assistant, from scratch. Not using an off-the-shelf app. Not plugging into someone else’s platform. Actually building it — the memory system, the research pipeline, the content tools, even the bot that sent me a reminder to write this post.

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Welcome to the Build: Why I'm Doing This in Public