Four work areas that connect my background to shipped projects: AI systems, product builds, analytics, and strategy work. Below them are the examples that show how I approach the work myself.
I organized the portfolio around four repeatable ways I work: mapping a problem, building the system, measuring whether it works, and explaining the decision behind it.
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AI & Automation
Automation first, AI where judgment lives. The routine steps get deterministic automation; AI is added only where rules stop working.
Every work area above is backed by something I built, shaped, or analyzed. Here it is.
Agents & AI
02 builds
Autonomous systems that take a one-line instruction and carry real work to a finished, quality-checked result. Both are live builds, not demos.
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DeckForge
An autonomous agent that writes an equity research deck, critiques it, and rewrites it in a scoring loop until it is board-ready. Give it a prompt. It pulls real numbers from public filings, builds the deck, then improves it until the composite score clears the ship bar.
An autonomous product team built from agents. Five evidence-grounded lenses discover work, a strict intake filter rejects the slop, deterministic scoring ranks what survives, and a Builder-Reviewer-Reviser pipeline ships dev-ready stories sprint after sprint, looping until the backlog drains.
AI AgentsOrchestrationAutonomous BacklogAgentic Workflow
Consumer products and marketing sites, taken from concept through design to a shipped build.
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Altro
A travel ranking app for logging cities, comparing past trips, and building a personal map of the places that still pull you forward. Altro turns travel memories into a clear, ranked view of taste and return energy.
A quiet home for novenas, daily reflection, honest journaling, and the grace to keep praying whether the answer is yes, no, or not yet. Nos gives structure without pressure and beauty without clutter.
The marketing website for the Altro travel app, designed and built end to end: positioning, copy, visual design, and a responsive single-page build that presents the app's ranked-city concept to new users.
What is Carter Shannon' approach to building products?
Carter Shannon builds products that start with a clear problem and end with a working solution. Each product is designed to solve a specific need for real users, built with a focus on clarity, functionality, and a direct path from idea to delivery. Every product Carter Shannon ships addresses something that was genuinely missing, never a hypothetical use case.
What is DeckForge and who is it for?
DeckForge is an autonomous AI agent that writes equity research decks, critiques its own output, and rewrites until the composite quality score clears a defined bar. It is designed for analysts, investors, and advisors who need board-ready research output without the manual iteration cycles that typically consume hours of analyst time.
What is Altro and what problem does it solve?
Altro is a travel ranking and mapping app that solves the problem of travel memory being scattered and unstructured. Most people cannot tell you which cities they have visited in ranked order, or which ones they actually want to return to. Altro gives you a single ranked list of every city you have visited, a personal map colored by return energy, and the ability to compare trips side by side.
What is Nos and what makes it different from other prayer apps?
Nos is a prayer and journaling app centered on novenas and daily reflection. Unlike most prayer apps, Nos is built without streaks, guilt mechanics, or notifications designed to shame you for missing a day. It treats prayer as a relationship rather than a performance metric, providing structure without pressure and a clean, distraction-free experience.
