Jay Ozer · AI Engineering · San Francisco
I build production AI for industries where getting it right actually matters: document intelligence, autonomous agents, and whatever a hard problem turns out to need. Mostly I'm interested in turning messy, manual work into something dependable, and in the people I get to build it with.
Selected work
When an order-volume surge buried the ops team, IntentIQ became the fix: a two-stage AI pipeline that reads 14K+ emails a day, pulls the latest message and attachments out of tangled threads, triages what is actionable, and routes it into seven title-insurance workflow categories with automated acknowledgements. Urgent items now reach the right desk in minutes, at 95%+ routing accuracy.
Clinical documentation that listens. PoppyNote pulls the day's schedule from Curve, records the visit, and drafts the note the way the practice already charts, matching each visit type's format and flagging anything unstated for the doctor to confirm instead of inventing values. One review later, the note files back to the right chart. Built so my wife stops staying late.
A team of specialist agents answers parents' questions for a pediatric dental practice: appointments, insurance, procedures, emergencies. Every answer is grounded in the practice's own pages before it sends, and emergencies skip straight to urgent guidance. The first line of defense on on-call weekends.
Built out of frustration with uploading private files to random compressor sites. FFmpeg.wasm runs in the browser, so video compression happens entirely in the tab and your files never leave it; images get fast WebP conversion. 50 to 90% smaller, with batch support.
A calm iOS kick counter for the third trimester: one tap per movement, a timed session with pause and undo, calendar history, and CSV export for the next appointment. Everything stays on the phone. No account, no analytics; the App Store privacy label simply reads Data Not Collected.
Tap the orb and say it: two ounces of formula, wet diaper, left side twelve minutes. Chloe logs feeds, diapers, nursing and pumping hands-free with on-device Apple Intelligence, talks back to confirm, and turns the day into caregiver handoffs and pediatrician summaries. An iPhone beta ahead of a privacy-only App Store release, named for the person it was built around.
Dictation that never phones home. Hold Fn and speak: local Whisper transcribes on-device, deterministic rules and an optional local LM Studio model polish the text, and one clean copy lands in the focused app. Cloud AI endpoints are refused in code, so audio never leaves the machine: privacy as an architectural fact, not a policy. A subscription is a tool you rent; this one lives with me.
Experience
Led the applied-AI pod delivering production agentic systems for title-insurance automation, partnering with Fannie Mae and Blend.
Built and led a team of six, establishing engineering rituals and modern data practices that scaled company-wide.
Established a unified source of truth and drove company-wide adoption of modern analytics ahead of IPO.
Led data engineering and BI infrastructure processing terabytes of economic data for monetary-policy decisions in a highly regulated central-banking environment.
Patents
Each one started as a stubborn, manual workflow and turned into something that mostly runs itself. The filings are nice; the part I like is that they quietly save people a lot of time.
LLM agents plus neural search with dual-team extraction, cross-validation, and human-in-the-loop review, replacing a brittle, manual deed workflow with a system that learns continuously.
Hybrid automation across fragmented county portals, with domain-specific parsing, template-driven scripted browsing, AI fallback, and vision verification that every document matches before delivery.
Fully autonomous retrieval for county clerk portals: it discovers the path and turns successful runs into reusable skills, while agentic reasoning corrects bad input data and adapts to portal changes with no human in the loop.
Working with people
A decade in, the part I care about most isn't the systems. It's the people I build them with. I've hired engineers from zero, sat through the boring reviews, and learned that patience ships more than cleverness. No heroics, just steady, honest work.
Open source & local tools
Python-first coding-agent Kanban that turns a large goal into scoped stories, runs one worker at a time, and keeps an auditable review trail, with gates that stop a worker from editing the test it is graded by.
View repoLocal-export-first recorder for county sites, preserving full-tab video, DOM evidence, downloads metadata and handoff packs for county-lens.
View repoA calmer Gmail inbox powered by Jev that runs entirely on your computer. Evaluates priority, categories, and reply signals with human-in-the-loop label previews, verification receipts, and undo.
View repoTurns repos, demos, transcripts and notes into source-grounded product presentations delivered in your own voice, with live Q&A.
View repoFixed a critical duplicate-download bug, hardening download handling across CDP, JS-fetch and polling paths.
A marketplace of installable AI-agent skill kits, including workflow orchestration, YouTube automation and video understanding tools.
View repoProduction read and write MCP server for OpenAI's AgentBuilder, with dual Graph plus org-account auth. Powers IntentIQ.
Bedtime stories told in a parent's voice. The live site is a beta front door, while the iOS app moves toward a privacy-only local version for saved voices and stories.
Visit siteEdit-before-upload document prep for Voiceflow RAG. The community adopted it; Voiceflow shipped the idea natively.
Ultra-fast LLaMA Guard guardrails for Voiceflow via Groq, real-time content safety with minimal latency.
14 standardized tools exposing my own bio, experience and CV over the Model Context Protocol. Built in under an hour.
View repoA transparent, PRD-driven Bash loop for fresh-context coding iterations across Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and Kimi CLI.
View repoSnap a snack photo and Dr. Hawley, a wisecracking molar, roasts it in a kid-safe comic strip. Deterministic dental-risk scoring stays in charge; the AI only does the jokes and the art.
Visit siteAsk Jay
A retrieval-augmented agent grounded in my notes, projects and patents. Ask how a system is put together, how I think about a hard problem, or just say hi. It answers with citations.
Education & credentials
About
I grew up in Istanbul, played competitive sports, and came up through engineering before finding my way into data and AI. Sport taught me what I still lead by: you rarely win by being exceptional at one thing. You win by being above average at many, and combining them well.
Music makes the same point. There was a time when a musician could write one great song and tour the world on it. That era is gone. The artists creating moments now are DJs: they collect the best tracks and mix them into cohesive sets, each one built for the room in front of them. Building with AI is exactly that. It is not music production, chasing one perfect track. It is DJing: curating the best pieces and blending them into something that moves people.
Home is San Francisco, with my wife Andrea, our daughter Chloe, and our golden retriever Hawley. When I'm not shipping, you'll usually find us out on a long walk, or at home playing records for the family.
Say hello
I love comparing notes with people building thoughtful AI, a hard problem, a half-formed idea, or just a good conversation. If you're making something interesting, I'd like to hear about it.