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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Work-Logs

2026-04-04 — Backlog blitz, blog posts, engagement catalog, T3 harness, dev-loop grinding

What shipped today

Three blog posts drafted and edited. Post 2 (“I ran my AI agency’s first real engagement”) went through Paul’s detailed section-by-section editorial and is near-final. …


2026-04-05 — First full engagement run, methodology evolution, strategic reckoning

What shipped today

Ran the Authexis product launch engagement end-to-end from questionnaire through competitive analysis. This was the first real test of the agency loop — Trina dispatching personas, Alex reviewing …


2026-04-06 — Strategy day: the agency reframe

What shipped today

This was a strategy day, not a dev day. The morning started with a strategic question that had blocked progress since yesterday — “who is the customer for Authexis as a standalone product?” — and ended with a complete …


What shipped today

Massive cleanup day. Three /scout passes identified 15 issues across content alignment, site infrastructure, and CSS/UX quality — all 15 resolved and shipped to production.

Content alignment (GH-1 through GH-4): Updated Authexis product page with full pipeline description, removed …


What shipped today

Accessibility pass. A fourth /scout run — after yesterday’s content alignment, infrastructure, and CSS/UX sweeps — focused on WCAG AA compliance and found five issues, all resolved in a single grind session.

The site now has proper keyboard navigation throughout. Every …


What shipped today

No code shipped today. This was a brief session to check project state and close out.

The site is in good shape after the Feb 21 accessibility push (GH-16 through GH-20) which brought the site to WCAG AA compliance across focus styles, contrast, heading hierarchy, skip navigation, …


What shipped today

Shipped the workshop landing page that had been sitting untracked since Feb 24. “Publish like you have a content team” is a live, 90-minute workshop targeting consultants and independent experts who know they should be publishing but aren’t. It walks them through …


What shipped today

Big cleanup day. Ran /scout to rebuild the backlog from zero — explored the full codebase across three parallel agents (content quality, CSS/layouts, config/infra) and created 5 concrete issues. Then /grind processed all five in parallel with isolated worktrees: fixed the …


Work log: Textorium TUI — March 12, 2026

What shipped today

Today was a full pipeline sweep — 8 PRs merged, clearing the CLI essentials milestone and fixing several visual bugs in the TUI.

The biggest chunk of work was implementing the three CLI commands that were stubbed since the project started: …


Work log: Textorium TUI — March 13, 2026

What shipped today

Today completed a full cycle: scout, triage, prep, exec across the board. Five PRs merged, covering bug fixes, a search improvement, and the last two stubbed CLI commands.

The session started with a scout pass that systematically explored …