That's Slugger, my agent, in the glasses. Switch GitHub's theme to see who's still up. (day · night)

I build products that help humans and agents do more together.

As a founding member of Microsoft's Customer Innovation Team, I'm working with customers to explore how that collaboration reshapes their work, and what Microsoft Teams needs to become. Outside work, I take the same questions further with Ouro and Spoonjoy.

Ouro · Spoonjoy · Say hello · For agents

My open-source workshop of tools for humans and agents working together. It started as an agent loop I built from scratch, which grew into Ouroboros, a harness for personal agents. Desk is where my agents keep their work, and Ouro HX is components for humans and the agents building with them.

My recipe app, built to cook from: each step carries its own ingredients. The easy things stay in the app, and anything complicated, like importing a recipe from a messy webpage, goes to an agent. Code for the web and for iPhone and Mac.

An idea I've been developing all year: look at a system from the agent's side. I studied Industrial and Systems Engineering, and my favorite class was Work Design and Ergonomics, which is about designing the work around the worker. Applied to agents, that idea becomes Agent Experience design.

• 2019, RecipeJoiner. A weekend codecation in Philly with two friends. Only one of us could code, so he spent the weekend teaching the other two.
• 2020, Rails and Next.js. I scoped so much up front, from search to a social feed, that I burned out before it ever launched.
• 2021, a new name. RecipeJoiner became Spoonjoy, and I started putting each ingredient in the step that uses it.
• 2022, RedwoodJS. My first commit called it "attempt 3." A month later, Spoonjoy went live.
• 2023, a first model. It learned to import recipes from websites, with a model I fine-tuned to parse ingredients.
• 2024 to 2025, quiet. Redwood wound down, and Spoonjoy sat unmaintained.
• January 2026, an agent. I handed the whole rebuild to Slugger, my agent. Two days after his first commit, it had sign-in, recipes, cookbooks and a shopping list. I still haven't read a line of the new code. (On his first afternoon, he drew himself a raccoon for an icon.)
• May 2026 to now, agents in the loop. Writing up a recipe goes to an agent through Spoonjoy's MCP server. In June it got an iPhone and Mac app, now in testing on TestFlight.

I've always liked building things that do something: Lego Mindstorms robots, K'NEX contraptions, homemade rockets. Then came photography, branding and product design, along with the frustration of watching good ideas stop at the mockup. So I learned to build them myself.

• RAPID, the pipeline-inspection robot my capstone team built at Rutgers. I put our logo on the chassis, because branding is part of how a thing gets perceived, even a robot.
• Sulis, the solar water-sanitization startup I cofounded. Our work became US Patent 11,643,340, which I'm a co-inventor on.
• RedwoodJS, where I found out how much I love building with a community. Helping out on the forum and starting RedwoodUI led the Core Team to invite me to join them.

If anything here resonates with you, let's chat :) hello@mendelow.me · LinkedIn · mendelow.me

You bring judgment. Your agents bring the rest.