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Give AI work a repeatable review path.

I built a family of focused tools for reviewing prompts, examining claims, tracing research, and evaluating interfaces. Each has a different job and an explicit point for human judgment.

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Compasses & MCPs

A family of focused tools

Make the next decision clearer.

PromptPreserve the requirements
CriticalQuestion the claim
UXTrace the finding

Shared review habits. Distinct tools and evidence needs.

My role
Creator · workflow design, tool contracts & AI-assisted implementation
Timeframe
2026
Focus
TOOL DESIGN · HUMAN REVIEW

Work shownPublic betas for Prompt, Critical, and UX Heuristics Compass. Research and TTRPG tools remain local alpha work.

Explore the Working Tools directoryRead the UX Heuristics Compass project story

THE CHALLENGE

Open-ended AI feedback is hard to act on when observation, interpretation, and suggested changes are mixed together.

MY CONTRIBUTION

I turned recurring review tasks into focused tool workflows with structured inputs, inspectable outputs, and clear limits.

01 / Tool family

Start with the decision someone needs to make.

The tools share a principle, not a single catch-all prompt. Each asks for different evidence and produces a different kind of help. MCP connections let an AI assistant call these focused tools within a larger workflow.

Public beta

Prompt Compass

Check a prompt and compare revisions against the original requirements.

See the portfolio case

Public beta

UX Heuristics Compass

Turn screenshots and a task flow into structured findings and a reviewable report.

Open the project story

Public beta

Critical Compass

Examine evidence gaps, hidden assumptions, framing, and missing perspectives.

Explore Critical Compass

Local alpha

Research Compass

Frame a question and distinguish source evidence from interpretation.

See the Oppia edition

Local alpha

TTRPG Compass

Support a game master with hooks, characters, and rules-aware preparation.

02 / Actual output

Make a finding something a team can inspect.

UX Heuristics Compass separates the observation, evidence, severity, and next action. The report gives a designer or teammate a specific finding to discuss. A score summarizes the supplied review; it does not replace testing with people.

03 / Workflow

The person owns the next step.

A tool can organize what to inspect. I design the handoff so a person can question the evidence, revise the interpretation, or ask for a better source before acting.

Shared pattern across distinct tools

  1. 01

    Supply

    A task, draft, or interface evidence.

  2. 02

    Structure

    A focused tool organizes the review.

  3. 03

    Inspect

    A person checks the finding and its limits.

  4. 04

    Act

    Revise, investigate, or keep the decision.

WHERE IT LANDED

Working tools with inspectable outputs.

The public betas include examples, setup guidance, and source packages. The private tools remain separate. Together they demonstrate how I turn expert review habits into workflows an AI assistant can support.

What I learned and would test next

More tools are useful only when the boundaries are clear. A claim checker, a prompt reviewer, and a usability audit should not pretend to certify the same thing.

I would test whether a new user can choose the right tool and understand when to challenge its output.

Evidence: original tool READMEs, public release pages, and the archived UX Heuristics Compass report. No adoption or measured productivity gain is claimed.

KEEP EXPLORING

CLARE & AI Glossary

From collecting AI knowledge to putting it to work.

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Prompt Compass

Keep the job intact when the prompt changes.

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Oppia Research Compass

Make the answer traceable to the evidence.

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A GOOD PLACE TO START

Let’s find the useful part of AI for your team.

For applied AI consulting, AI analysis, prompt design, enablement, and human–AI product work.

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