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Projects and writing from Jan Gasparic-Gray.

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Unitree IPO: An Industry Barometer to Watch

Unitree’s IPO shows that being a tech pioneer and a profitable company are not mutually exclusive. US startups should take note. Humanoid robotics as an industry is growing, but how big it will get remains an open question. With Unitree going public, we now have a front line seat to market adoption.

2026-08-15#Robotics

Steering AI Behavior in Long-Form Report Writing

Writing professional reports with LLMs requires proactive mitigation of source bias and LLM narrative license behaviours. Reliable results are achievable by producing an internal editorial rulebook and implementing independent proofreading agents that verify compliance at specific writing stages.

2026-05-30#Claude Skills#Firecrawl#Python

Better Habits for Better Numbers: Conversational AI for Sales Reps

SMB sales teams need high CRM data quality to manage deal volume, but informal communication channels make updates burdensome for reps. LLM-powered agents address this by letting reps log updates via natural language, while planning and digest agents help reps prioritize and give managers synthesized insights.

2026-04-12#Concept

Scaling eCommerce Product Listings with Vision Models

Fairmart validated a new customer segment and technical approach by building an internal onboarding tool that generated product listings from in-store photos. The resulting product listings passed QC and drove a 12% uplift in store revenue via eCommerce.

2025-06-09#React#Node.js#GVM#VLM#Railway#Postgres

Does AI Creative Actually Work? Testing It in Singapore's Ad Market

We tested AI-generated FB/IG ad creative to grow qualified leads for Fairmart's SMB retail ICP. Anime-style, revenue-focussed creative (e.g. ‘selling while you sleep’) significantly outperformed realistic AI imagery, delivering a 3.48x ROAS, while also surfacing new lead-qualification challenges.

2025-03-27#Growth Experiment

Illustrations by Owen D. Pomery

The hero images on this site are all by the illustrator Owen D. Pomery. Here's why I chose them for the site, and where you can find out more about his work.

2025-01-27#Visuals