input · paul dlug
I build AI products that real people actually use.
Nicia AI is the platform that takes your agents off your laptop, runs them safely for your whole team, and compounds the context they reason over. TypeGraph ↗ is the open-source graph layer it sits on. Most of my career: the substrate underneath AI, the teams that ship it, the products that run on top.
Bend, Oregon. Long runs, long context windows.
output · current project
NICIA AI ↗
the operating system for AI work inside an organization
output · open source
TYPEGRAPH ↗
graph queries without a graph database
| fig | date | title | subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 2026-04-24 | You Ship Your Org Chart. Now Your Agents Do. Conway's Law used to be a problem for software designers. Agents made it everyone's problem. A sales team, Claude Code, and the fracture that was already there. | engineering |
| 002 | 2026-04-23 | TypeGraph: Graph queries without a graph database Most applications have graph problems hiding in plain sight — permissions that inherit, documents that relate, users that connect. TypeGraph brings graph semantics to the Postgres or SQLite you already run. | engineering |
| 003 | 2024-12-01 | Typescript production deploys with docker Here's my preferred production Dockerfile. It uses a multi-stage build to ensure layers are cached for package dependencies, source code, and build artifacts. | engineering |