Welcome to the Lab
Why I built mattcarl.dev and what you'll find here.
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Writing
Notes from building fast, going deep, and keeping the room energized.
I Stopped Being an Individual Contributor and Started Managing AI Agents
A Solutions Architect's first week with Codex.
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What We Learned Turning Scattered Use Cases Into a Searchable System
Lessons from building Civic Signal to turn scattered public sector use case knowledge into a searchable, trusted system.
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From Limited Visibility to Unified Monitoring: Building a Custom Integration That Unblocked a Federal Deal
How a custom Juniper Mist integration enabled unified network visibility in Elastic and removed a key federal evaluation blocker.
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Multi-Agent AI for Government: A Pre-Sales Demo Worth Writing About
How a voice-first, multi-agent architecture grounded in retrieval built trust with federal stakeholders.
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