Rashid Azarang

Rashid Azarang

I build intelligent systems, then hold them to evidence.

Production AI agents by day, pre-registered research on how they actually behave, and essays and films about the same question in other mediums: what does it take to know that a system works?

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Writing

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Proof Used to Be ExpensiveAlmost everything you believe, you believe because faking it would have been too much work. That foundation just expired. A first principles look, written with Jesús Carlos Acosta Rocha, at why detectors cannot fix it, why feeds stop being worth checking, why the screen is disappearing into sensors, what keeps its value, and what would prove us wrong.
Aug 2026
Memory Lives Beyond the Context WindowAn agent's memory is everything it can reach, not just its context window. A preprint, Reading More, Finding Less, tests that idea with pre-registered experiments and finds the failure is routing: a hand-curated memory index sent the agent to the wrong files, plain file search beat it, and saved memories almost never got read again. The full corpus and harness ship with the paper for re-running.
Aug 2026
Can You Trust an AI to Grade Your AI?Many teams use one AI model to grade another one's answers, and then let that grade decide what ships. Almost nobody checks whether the grader itself can be trusted. This is what it took, on a real production system, to make the grader reliable enough that a failing score is allowed to stop a release.
Aug 2026
Your AI Agent Passes Its Tests for the Wrong ReasonAI agents are built to remember, and that breaks their tests. When test cases share one user, each case inherits leftover memory from the one before it, so the pass rate measures the order the tests ran in, not the agent. Giving every test its own clean user and its own sealed world fixed that, and let the whole suite run in parallel for free.
Aug 2026
The Compounding WorkspaceFirst month inside a global org: docs as code, every API wired, and capabilities that visibly compound.
Jul 2026
Who Wins When Intelligence Becomes FreeThe cost of intelligence is collapsing. A map of who captures the value, with five predictions you can check.
Jul 2026

Research

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Preprint · arXiv:2608.16112 [cs.SE]Strategic Technical DebtWhat is today’s marginal economic value of taking on one more unit of technical debt, given the probability that the venture survives long enough to have to repay it?Read on arXiv →
Strategic Technical Debt — ship fast today, take on debt, repay only if the hypothesis survives

Open Source

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Notion to SiteSync any Notion database to markdown, MDX, or JSON. One command. All block types.↗
Airtable MCPAirtable integration for AI-powered applications via Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP)↗
Airtable AI Agent🤖 The most comprehensive AI Agent for Airtable operations - Natural language interface with 33 MCP tools, complete API knowledge, and production-ready deployment↗
Twilio SMS TrackerOpen-source customer communication management system designed for dealerships and service businesses. It provides real-time tracking of SMS communications, delivery monitoring, and feedback collection automation.↗
Supply Chain Risk PlatformA comprehensive supply chain risk assessment platform that provides real-time monitoring and analysis across multiple risk dimensions including weather, port congestion, foreign exchange rates, and supplier reliability.↗
Enterprise Analytics HubA comprehensive solution for managing and analyzing insurance claims data. The application provides dashboards, reports, and analytics tools for tracking agreements, claims, and dealer performance.↗

Showcase

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Notion to Site
No-code ToolsNotion to SiteSync any Notion database to markdown, MDX, or JSON. One command. All block types.Read case study →

Work

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affihub.comAffiliate program infrastructure for SaaS and brands. First-party tracking, automated commissions, and Stripe Connect payouts.↗
vaiven.aiAI media monitoring for LATAM communications teams. Tracks thousands of Spanish-language outlets with sentiment analysis and daily synthesis.↗
crawlio.appmacOS AI crawler with a built-in MCP server. Clones sites locally for offline use, agent integration, and 19 audit analyzers.↗
ayudalocal.comWhatsApp-first home services marketplace for Mexico. Matches customers with vetted providers and handles payments through Stripe Connect.↗
cotizera.comMobile quoting and deal tracking for LATAM SMBs. Branded PDF generation, WhatsApp delivery, and a Kanban pipeline from quote to won.↗
mentu.aiLocal-first composable AI workflows that improve every time they run.↗

Books

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Rethinking How We Think with AI
Towards the SingularityRethinking How We Think with AIA pursuit of individuation in the shared space between humans and machines.Read book →

Films

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Introducing Crawlio

Case Studies

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Built a COVID-19 Testing Platform for 1M+ Users
Healthcare Ops · 2021–2022A COVID-19 Testing Platform for 1M+ UsersHelped a Spanish laboratory scale from 1,000 to 100,000+ COVID-19 tests per month across Latin America.Read case study →

On Psychology

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Rethinking How We Understand PeopleFrom Gut Feelings to Contextual Intelligence There was a time when baseball teams chose players the way most companies still build teams today: by gut. Scouts would watch a player swing a bat or throw a pitch and evaluate them based on a set of unspoken heuristics: “He’s got a strong arm,” “He moves like a natural,” “He looks like a winner.” These judgments were built on experience, but they we...
Apr 2025
Risk of being misunderstoodThe risk of not being transparent lies in the inevitability of being misunderstood. Imagine a scenario where you are smoking weed while living with someone, yet you hide this from them. Without the clarity of cause and effect, without revealing that key part of yourself, misunderstandings start to form. Cannabis, for instance, can affect people differently depending on the strain—Indica, Sativa...
Sep 2024
Growth Through Mutual ReflectionWhen two people connect, they naturally reveal parts of each other that might otherwise remain hidden. This process isn’t always easy, as it often brings us face-to-face with aspects of ourselves we might prefer to ignore. Yet, through this connection, we begin to heal and grow in ways we couldn’t achieve on our own.
Sep 2024
Always be Prepared to Walk AwayDo you prefer an audio version? Click here→
Sep 2024
Leap of faithIt’s about those willing to bet it all, not knowing if it’ll fail. It’s about the courage to roll the dice, fully aware that losing is a possibility. At the end of the day, we must prepare for the chance that nothing will work out, yet still, we move forward. It isn’t about expecting failure but about embracing the unknown. It’s about understanding that real growth and connection come from taki...
Aug 2024