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Atelier CRM — Studio Readiness & Delivery

Give a design studio one honest answer to the question: is this project actually ready to move?

Status-first

Product Model

Boutique

Studio Segment

Local-first

Validation Path

Product Methods

Workflow ResearchStatus ModelPRD AuthoringReadiness GatesDesign OperationsCommercial Scope

The Problem

Boutique interior studios manage client decisions, drawings, procurement, installation, and handover across chats, spreadsheets, and disconnected tools. A task list alone cannot show whether the whole project is ready for the next commercial or delivery commitment.

The Challenge

I framed Atelier around readiness rather than generic CRM activity. Each project needs a shared status model across approvals, materials, procurement, scheduling, and installation, with evidence and clear blockers visible before a team promises the next milestone. The product remains deliberately local-first while deployment and operational ownership are unresolved.

Results

The monorepo now expresses the readiness model across shared contracts, API, and web surfaces, with product and commercial requirements captured alongside verification and production runbooks. The interface prioritises approvals, procurement state, and installation milestones over generic CRM vanity metrics.

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Ummidvar — AI Job Application Agent

Autonomous, multi-profile job application agent: discovers roles across 7+ boards, ranks each 0–100 with a 5-component explainable scorer, generates hallucination-safe tailored applications via a Facts Graph, auto-submits through real ATS systems, tracks replies via Gmail, and flags visa-sponsorship signals across 5 countries — 286 tests, 11 modular packages, zero vendor lock-in.

PythonFastAPIPlaywright

Ummidvar — Autonomous Job Agent

Product vision and feature scoping for Ummidvar — an autonomous, multi-profile job application agent. Defined the 11-package modular architecture from a product perspective, prioritised the anti-hallucination Facts Graph as a non-negotiable product constraint, and scoped visa-sponsorship intelligence for 5 international markets.

PRD AuthoringFeature PrioritisationMulti-Persona Design

Sylars Work Manager — Agent Operations Workspace

End-to-end ownership

A self-hosted workspace for assigning repository work to AI agents with exact-SHA project context, isolated task environments, progress steering, and explicit human approval gates.

TypeScriptNode.jsDocker Compose

Watchdog — Multi-cloud Observability Control Plane

End-to-end ownership

A privacy-minimised observability and safe-operations control plane spanning AWS, Azure, GCP, container hosts, registry storage, incidents, and exact human-approved cleanup plans.

TypeScriptNext.jsAWS Lambda

Swadhika Studios — Editorial Interior Portfolio

End-to-end ownership

A calm, editorial website for an interior-design and turnkey-delivery studio, built around full-bleed project photography, deliberate typography, and unhurried motion.

HTMLCSSJavaScript

BidWave — Freelance Opportunity Intelligence

Product Owner

A self-hosted opportunity engine that aggregates freelance listings, ranks fit in two stages, drafts tailored proposals, and keeps application decisions under human control.

Product DiscoveryPRD AuthoringRICE Prioritisation

RenderBoard AI — Interior Design Workspace

Product Owner

An AI-image-first interior design workspace for plan intake, review, layout, rendering, mood boards, and export—with safety, billing, and human approval designed into the flow.

Product StrategyPaid Beta ScopeAI Safety

Interested in this work?

Full architecture walkthrough and code review available during interviews.

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