Chase Hughes

Product leader building agentic AI. Founded and sold ProAI.

WRITING

Agents are outgrowing the chat window. As their working horizon stretches past a human workday, the interface stops being a conversation and becomes a reporting line.

Using synthetic customer and PM personas as a design-review harness, and what they caught that we didn't.

Five controlled experiments on whether agents can improve their own behavior through simulation—and what's doing the work when they do.

Why the guardrails we built to make agents safe are now the things making them dumb.

Why true agentic efficiency requires abandoning human workflows.

PROJECTS

ProAI Founder (Acquired)

AI business-planning platform producing financial models, pitch decks and market research on a fine-tuned LLM.

Braid Open source

Visual LangGraph agent builder that turns plain-English prompts into deployable agents. Used in production at ProAI.

Nite-Owl Research

Tests whether agents improve from their own simulated experience. Code, data and paper draft.