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StemBuddy
education2026Science investigations kids run themselves.
Science investigations for kids 8–12 — engineered so the AI cannot do the thinking for them.
Applied AI product company
Where new AIbecomes useful product.
Naru AI explores how emerging AI capabilities translate into useful real-world applications — from product design and system architecture through rapid development, launch, and market testing.
Scroll — 10 findings from building them
01 — Insights10 findings,
each with its evidence
each with its evidence
Building with AI teaches you things that don't survive a slide.
Findings that changed how the next product got built — each traced back to the shipped decision that produced it. Four of 10 below.
- 01
AI should scaffold, never substitute.
One-tap acceptance turns evaluation into rubber-stamping, so the interface has to make the easy path the thinking path.
- 02
Give models narrow tools, not raw access.
Three named tools make a boundary structural; broad access plus a well-behaved prompt only makes it a hope.
- 03
A commitment that cannot fail a build is a hope.
A promise enforced by whoever remembers at review time holds until the week someone is busy.
- 06
Market testing only counts if you will act on the answer.
Agreeing in advance that the answer might be no is the cheap part; honouring it when it is costs something.
02 — Productsthe evidence
behind the findings
behind the findings
Where the findings came from.
Three products across three domains, each with a constraint we would not relax.
02
Naru AI
health2025–26A family health journal for iOS.
Family health journal — shipped through App Review with a paid tier, retired after market testing.
Backend retired 2026 · listing being withdrawn
03
SEAM
fintech2026A wallet for people banks leave out.
Mission-locked digital wallet and community fund, in active exploration — preview published.
03 — Approach
How we build.
01
Wired ≠ live
Nothing counts as shipped until it writes its first real production row. A feature that compiles, deploys and demos is still a claim, not a fact — which is why the StemBuddy lane above stops at 04 until real usage exists to read.
02
Policy compiles
Commitments live in CI, not in review discipline. On StemBuddy, a third-party tracker in the kid-facing bundle fails the build; so do leaked secrets and accessibility regressions. A promise that can’t fail a build is a hope.
03
One writer, many agents
Builds run under a designed multi-agent coordination protocol: a single-writer state snapshot, an append-only broadcast log, and mandatory human gate-reviews on billing, migrations and anything a child can type into. 1,600+ commits since January under that system.