Hi, I’m Brian.
I’m a Staff Product Manager at You.com. I work on AI, search, and developer tools, and lately on a customer that can’t click: the AI agent that finds, tries, and pays for an API on its own.
This is where I share my work and the projects I build on the side.
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You.com
I helped move search to a chat-first experience, then turned it into an API platform that developers and agents can adopt without talking to sales.
Crate & Barrel
I worked on search and product data so shoppers could find what was available.
G2
I led work on search, ranking, and recommendations for software buyers.
Side projects
All projects ↗SuperPaste ↗
Press Option+V and the right text appears in whatever you are typing. Native macOS, Swift, MIT.
frugal ↗
The open routing layer for AI tool calls: every search, extract, and browse call routed to the cheapest provider that works, with failover and a receipt. One Go binary.
you.md ↗
One portable preferences file for AI coding tools instead of six that disagree. Open protocol, TypeScript, MIT.
PromptLens ↗
Prompt and agent evaluation from one YAML golden set across Claude, GPT, Gemini, and local models, with cost and latency in one report. Python.
Writing
All writing ↗- Agents search like it's 1999
Coding agents now pick tools while a developer watches, and the queries they send look nothing like a buyer's. They are terse, literal, and dated. If your pages only answer the human query, the agent never finds you.
Sep 23, 2026
- Attribution is who called, never what they asked
Most agent traffic reaches an API through SDKs, plugins, and MCP servers that never identify themselves, so the channels driving adoption look like they do nothing. The fix is a client identifier everywhere, with one line you do not cross.
Sep 23, 2026
- The router is the moat, the rail is a feature
Agent payments will not settle on one protocol soon. Instead of betting on a winner, build the router: one price, one ledger, and many rails underneath that you can promote or demote without touching anything else.
Sep 23, 2026