Cale Reid

Cale Reid

Product leader building AI-native tools for better thinking.

Currently

30 Days, 9 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?

Reading

The goal is to make technology something that extends human potential rather than reducing it to nothingness - to create visible prosperity rather than just extracting it.

via Readwise · 30 Days, 9 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go? by kyla scanlon

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Thinking

Working on solving the Mr. Beast Salesforce puzzle with Claude Code agent teams is just a tremendous amount of fun

via Substack · Feb 13

i don't know what to say

Listening

i don't know what to say

via Spotify · Le Youth, Lipless, Hana Fatur

Building

fix: clarify composite synthesis actionability

commit · earned-confidence · Mar 14

Featured Projects

Earned Confidence

Visible reasoning for consequential decisions

Earned Confidence graph showing a weighted cluster of claims and connections

Most AI tools give you either one answer or a menu of possibilities. This prototype explores a third pattern: visible reasoning. You weight claims on a graph, see where the real cruxes are, and end with a decision you actually feel confident in.

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Sycophancy is a well-documented problem in AI, but most strategies to address it are prompt techniques that put the burden on the user. Yar ("You're absolutely right!") is a Chrome extension that flags sycophantic responses automatically across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. It runs entirely in your browser, explains what it found, and suggests counter-prompts.

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Yar

Flags when AI is telling you what you want to hear

Yar Chrome extension showing ChatGPT with sycophancy flags and counter-prompts in the side panel

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Multi-AI collaboration in Slack

xyz in Slack showing multi-AI collaboration with synthesizer and divergent perspectives

I kept copying responses between Claude and ChatGPT, asking each to critique the other. Different models caught things others missed. I wanted a workspace where I could collaborate with multiple AI models without the copy-paste. xyz is that workspace.

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The Soundscape of This American Life

30 years of recurring music, visualized

TAL Soundscape visualization showing recurring music patterns across 877 episodes

I've listened to This American Life for years and always noticed they reuse the same music. I wanted to know how often, and whether the same clips show up in similar emotional contexts. I fingerprinted 877 episodes and built an interactive visualization. 604 clusters of recurring clips, some spanning 30 years of episodes.

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Work History

Atria Health

Head of Product · 2023–2025

Atria patient portal showing longitudinal lab trends and biomarker tracking

First Product hire at the leading longevity medicine practice in the United States. Built the product/engineering team from 0 to 15 and shipped the patient portal, care management system, and a Chrome extension that layered patient insights right on top of the EHR.

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