Notes from building Kinetiq Nexus.
What we shipped this month. What broke. What we'd do differently if we started over. Short, occasional, honest.
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05 / 05I built my own AI assistant. It made me trust AI less.
I built Atlas, an agentic assistant wired into my real life, and ended up trusting AI less, not more. The three ways it quietly gets dangerous, and the one rule I bolted on.
ReadWhy I'm skeptical of EHS dashboards.
What dashboards optimize for, what EHS programs actually need, and the home screen we had to rebuild after the prototype demoed beautifully and stopped getting opened.
ReadThe toolbox talk was already in the RCA.
A short note on noticing that the root cause analysis already contains most of the next morning's toolbox talk, what I had been getting wrong, and the loops a good platform shows you that nobody pitched.
ReadWhy this exists.
A short note from Jeffrey Reynolds, Chief Systems Architect, on what he got tired of waiting for in EHS software, what made him sit down and start building, and what to expect from this blog.
ReadWhen the audit asks why.
A note on why a structured 5-Why analysis grounded in the regulation belongs inside the inspection workflow, what we almost got wrong, and the one guardrail I would not let go of.
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Thirty minutes against your actual MSHA inspection history. You bring last year's citations; we walk through what the platform would have done.
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