In November 2025 I got curious. I’m Adam Higdon, and I wanted to know how much one person can build with modern AI tools. What’s the limit? It turned a hobby into technology that Adobe adopted internally. In 2026 I was asked to join the Adobe AI Center of Excellence and tasked with building systems that Adobe couldn’t dedicate the engineering talent toward. Below are some of the things I’ve built: an AI that joins video calls as a domain expert, agents that live in Slack, and a debate app on the App Store (that one was for fun, so feel free to download it).
617 days of building · 500,000+ lines of AI code · 8 favorites below · all live
AI systems.
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Turns a 3,600-account sales territory into a three-minute executive briefing: search, map view, one-click AI reports. Best on desktop.
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Training Engine
liveA complete partner-training portal for a fictional enterprise: AI-generated curriculum, 18 pages, narrated audio lessons.
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Mix Modeler
liveA Bayesian marketing mix model that runs entirely in the browser: adstock decay, saturation curves, cross-channel halo detection, and budget optimization, with a step-by-step derivation of the math behind every result. Built on what I learned selling portfolio optimization at Efficient Frontier. Best on desktop.
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Intake IQ
liveA lead-intelligence dashboard for a multi-location business. AI scores and analyzes every inbound call and contact form, then ranks which locations are getting the best leads. Best on desktop.
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Hermes
demoAn AI that joins Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams as an actual participant. It listens, thinks, and talks back in real time. Built in about two hours.
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AI Agent Builder
liveNo-code builder for custom chatbots. Define the persona and knowledge, get a working agent.
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Slack Agent
liveAn AI agent that lives in your Slack. Ask about live operational data in plain English and it reads the answer back out loud.
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Areopagus
liveThree AI jurors named Claudius, Socrates, and Prometheus debate your hardest questions, challenge you and each other, and forge a consensus or declare a hung jury. Shipped to the iOS App Store.