Neel Shah

@neelS

I build AI-native products and half-baked side projects.

Exploring new ventures, since Jan 1st 2026

About

Most recently founded Ethica, an AI native title agency. We built products for AI real estate and modernized the title insurance stack. Scaled nationwide to over 20,000 real estate agents. Prior to that ran product and eng initiatives at ListReports. Was acquired by Integrity Growth Partners and rebranded to Highway AI.

2026–Exploring what's next
2023–26Ethica
2020–23Highway AI
2017–21UCSD, CS
2015–17United World College

Sides

Side projects and hacks →

Log

Week of Feb 17

  • •New sparkling water ranking:
    1. Saratoga Springs
    2. San Pellegrino
    3. Gerolsteiner
    4. Seagrams (cc: united)
    5. Topo chico

Week of Feb 3

  • •Been experimenting with Temporal for my AI agents.
  • •Deployed the dashboards on demand tool inside a customer's Slack. Need better memory management system. Experimenting with QMD and Claude Code's memory compression stack.
  • •Web agent API benchmarks seem so cooked. I wonder if there's a whole ecosystem of indie benchmarks that show up.
  • •Read through the Claude Code changelog. Lots of relevant updates: --from-pr flag to resume sessions linked to PRs, wildcard permission patterns like Bash(npm *), background agents with permission prompts, 68% memory reduction for session loading. They also improved system prompts to guide the model toward dedicated tools (Read, Edit, Glob, Grep) instead of bash equivalents. Going to test and see if tool use for bash is materially different.

Week of Jan 27

  • •Turned 27 on Jan 27th—felt more spiritual than most birthdays.
  • •Did a bunch of algorithmic prep and brush up.
  • •Moved and am now lease-less. Will probably spend some time in SF.

Week of Jan 20

  • •Been exploring applied AI functions across the industry.
  • •Exploring multi-player AI—prototyping a Slack-like interface on Claude's agent SDK to see what collaborative AI workflows could look like.
  • •Read Ramp's article on their background agent (Inspect)—they use Modal Labs for sandboxed VMs with pre-built images that spin up in seconds, and Cloudflare Durable Objects for state management. Want to implement a similar VM/Modal strategy for the multiplayer Slack collab prototype, with Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects to maintain conversation and session state.
  • •Built an MVP of the background coding agent—Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects for orchestration, Modal sandboxes for code execution. This app was created and deployed to Vercel entirely by the agent.

Week of Jan 13

  • •Exploring the universe of auto-scraping. Extract DOM trees and build code-based scrapers on the fly to extract structured data. Browser agents were never meant to scrape.
  • •Extending this idea to auto-integrations. Scraping API docs and then building v1s of integrations/API abstractions autonomously.
  • •Experimenting with auto-scrape and FashionCLIP 2.0 search to see how standard product catalogs do → buckmason-search.vercel.app

Week of Jan 6

  • •Kicked off the new year finding alignment in what I want to do next. Knowing exactly what you want to optimize for is extremely important.

Week of Jan 1