Applied AI · Research & Strategy · Systems Builder · Zero-to-One Design
I'm a designer who builds. At Assurant, a Fortune 500 insurance company, I sit with the executive strategy function and turn ambiguous leadership problems into working AI systems. Co-inventor on a pending patent for a distributed resource-coordination system.
Earlier: four years of product design in financial services, eight in the US Army.
Program knowledge for a large organization lived in twenty places and decayed the moment anyone stopped maintaining it. I built a wiki that maintains itself: custom Claude Code skills scan the underlying corpus for gaps, redraft stale pages, and generate D3 visualizations — structured around how people actually search.
full study — access requiredA regulated transaction can't close without a licensed specialist, and scheduling one means customers wait while specialists sit idle. I designed a coordination model that routes the right specialist to each transaction in real time, with the compliance trail intact.
full study — access requiredSenior leadership was getting the same numbers in five formats from five teams. I built a single consumption layer: data from every business line lands in one structured schema, and AI plans and assembles the reports against it.
full study — access requiredAs product designers, we've always relied on familiar patterns to create clear, intuitive experiences.
We are experiencing a significant shift in product design due to AI advancements.
When Karpathy introduced the idea of "vibe coding," it clicked with something many of us in tech had started noticing.
Tactical Decision Aid — for when the room still wants an answer.
TDA · 1965 Army doctrine. The decisions still aren't clear.
If you're working on something that doesn't have an answer yet, I'd like to hear about it. abraytondesign@gmail.com
Andrew Brayton · Houston · 2026