Optimal Flows
My product studio
Optimal Flows is my product studio, the company behind RecomAid, Alongwise, ArcAuthor, etc. and my independent consulting work. It's where I take hard operational problems, the kind that live in the gap between messy real-world systems and clean decision logic, and turn them into working software.
The model is simple: I build products inside the studio, and when one proves itself, it spins out into its own company. The studio stays small and personal by design. It isn't a firm with a roster; it's a workshop with a point of view: that most systems fail because they assume a world that doesn't exist, and the fix is to model how things actually behave, then build decisions that hold under real conditions.
What's in the studio
RecomAid — Spinning out
A platform that fixes how recommendation letters and qualification evidence get produced. It puts AI inside a structured, human-reviewed workflow, so evaluators spend far less time and every decision stays consistent and accountable. Now becoming its own company.
Alongwise — Live, early users
A career coaching and application-management platform for students navigating the transition into their next role.
Visit Alongwise →
ArcAuthor — In the lab
An education platform for building and delivering interactive learning labs. Currently in production trials with instructors and students.
Consulting — Available
Select engagements in decision systems, reliability and quality engineering, and research commercialization — drawing on 18 years bridging academic research and real-world operations.
Research Commercialization — Ongoing
The studio also turns applied research into industrial tools: reliability modeling for production and supply-chain flow (Reliow), physical asset lifecycle optimization (PALO), and related decision systems developed with industry and academic partners.
How the studio works
Products begin as experiments inside Optimal Flows. Each one is built to solve a specific, acute problem for a specific user, not to be a product or platform in search of a use. When a product finds real traction, it graduates: it becomes its own company, with its own team and its own path, while the studio moves on to the next problem.
This is deliberate. Keeping the studio small keeps it honest. Every product has to earn its independence.
Optimal Flows LLC · California · Established 2023
