AI agents · Product engineering
Cori · Interview coordination
I extended Cori for its launch: an AI agent that coordinates hiring, reports progress as it works, and waits for a recruiter’s approval before it touches a calendar.
Meet CoriEric Valens / Ventura
Engineer.
Builder.
AI, put to work.
I’m a Senior Software Engineer at GoodTime.io and the founder of Chimpipi. I take ambiguous problems from research to launch, and build workflows that help local businesses get things done.
01 / InputA real problemResearch before code.
02 / BuildParallel agentsOne brief. One focused fix.
03 / CheckReview & testI test every fix.
✓
Human-approvedThen it ships.
Selected work
Product engineering / Applied AIA few things I’ve built.
AI evaluation · Data pipelines
AI candidate evaluator
I built and scaled the AI candidate evaluator, bringing together resume parsing, ATS data, and an in-house OCR pipeline. Personal identifiers are stripped before the prompt, inside an independently bias-audited screener.
My work at GoodTimeFounder · Full-stack engineering
Chimpipi · Local business systems
I sit down with local business owners, find what is limiting them, and build the workflow. Websites, voice agents, and office automation, with training for the people who run it.
Explore ChimpipiMore about me
Nine years of shipping software. The last two have been AI features at GoodTime.io, working with the founder on the ambiguous projects: research the problem, find the right people, work out an approach, and see it through launch. That is how the product got its first generative AI, a resume evaluator inside an independently bias-audited screener, and Cori, the agent that schedules interviews and waits for a recruiter to say yes. I am careful about what AI does on someone's behalf. A person approves before anything is sent, published, or released. I am a huge fan of Grok Bot, and the film below is why. On the side I run Chimpipi: I sit down with local business owners, find what is limiting them, build the workflow, and train the people who run it.
How I run Grok Bot at work
I am a huge fan of Grok Bot. I pick the tickets, it researches each bug, and Cursor cloud agents write the fixes, one per bug, all at once. I test every one. Same hours, about ten times the work. A clean review is not a merge.
What I do
- Websites for small businessesFull stack for a local business. The site is live before anyone pays. The product behind it when a page is not enough.chimpipi.com
- Voice agents for contractorsFor plumbers, roofers, and contractors — a small crew, too much phone. An automated assistant on a number I control picks up the calls they miss, and says it's automated.chimpipi.com/ai-help
- Grok Bot at workI am a huge fan. It researches every bug, Cursor cloud agents write the fixes in parallel, and I test every one. Same hours, about ten times the work. The film is above.Watch the film
- Grok Bot for your businessNow I set it up for other small businesses and give it real office jobs — a morning brief, follow-up on quotes that went quiet, review requests, invoice reminders. It drafts; the owner taps send. I train the team that runs it and stay until they are confident. For shops looking to scale, or just to keep up with the day-to-day.chimpipi.com/ai-help
Work, year by year
How I ship a bug fix
I pick the tickets. Grok Bot researches them and Cursor cloud agents fix them in parallel, several at once. That is the point. Same hours, about ten times the work. I do the testing. A clean review is not a merge. I designed the loop, then taught it to the team.
Research
Grok Bot checks what I'm assigned, then reads the ticket, Slack, Notion, Drive, Datadog, the Loom, the screenshots, and the code. Each bug gets a brief. It does not reply in Slack.
Build
Each brief goes to its own Cursor cloud agent. Four bugs get fixed side by side, at the same time.
Review
CodeRabbit and SonarCloud review every PR. Then Claude Code and Codex review it as adversaries, trying to break the fix. The agents answer what gets flagged before I read it.
Test
The most important step: I test every fix on stage, then prod.
Ship
A clean review is not a merge. I merge what passes and send back what doesn't. Grok Bot keeps notes on what worked, and the loop runs again.
My toolkit 27 tools I reach for +
Tools I reach for
Agents I build with05
- Claude CodeThe polish pass. A proof of concept goes in and a finished site comes out.claude.com
- CodexReads every plan before I build it, and reviews the diff after.openai.com/codex
- GrokBuilt the very first site in the system. Still the third opinion.grok.com
- Grok BotThe one I am a huge fan of. Research on every bug, in parallel, and about ten times the work.x.ai
- CursorCloud agents write the fixes, one per bug, all at once.cursor.com
Around every bug fix09
- JiraWhere the tickets live.atlassian.com
- DatadogThe logs Grok Bot reads before anyone guesses.datadoghq.com
- LoomBug reports on video, read frame by frame.loom.com
- SlackEvery question for me, researched before I answer.slack.com
- NotionThe specs and the decisions behind a ticket.notion.com
- Google DriveThe docs and the decks a ticket points at.drive.google.com
- GitHubThe code it reads first, and where every PR lands.github.com
- CodeRabbitReviews every PR; the agents fix what it flags.coderabbit.ai
- SonarCloudThe second reviewer, for smells and duplication.sonarcloud.io
The stack under it13
- AstroWhere a local shop's site lives. Fast pages, and it stays there.astro.build
- Next.jsWhen a site takes a payment or holds an account. This site too.nextjs.org
- PostgreSQLThe database, when the app has to remember a customer.postgresql.org
- StripeThe payment, when the page has to take one.stripe.com
- ViteThe afternoon proof, when a page should stay disposable.vite.dev
- VercelEvery preview is a real URL that opens on their phone.vercel.com
- FirecrawlTheir current site and reviews, as clean markdown.firecrawl.dev
- ScrapingBeeThe backup scraper, for the sites that fight the first one.scrapingbee.com
- LangGraphThe engine behind Cori, GoodTime's interview agent. A person approves before the calendar changes.langchain.com
- PineconeThe files the resume scorer searches: that customer's sites, PDFs, and Word docs.pinecone.io
- MapboxThe old show map, and a family's assigned schools.mapbox.com
- three.jsThe dust behind this page.threejs.org
- Tailwind CSSOne house style across every Chimpipi site.tailwindcss.com
Mentors I listen to
On in the car, on a run, and between builds. None of them know it.
Who I follow on AI
The timeline I read for AI news, and the people I look up to. All on X.
- DHHRails and 37signals. The case for small teams, at full volume.x.com/dhh
- Chamath PalihapitiyaAll-In. The money and the macro behind every AI headline.x.com/chamath
- Theot3.gg. Ships, then explains the stack on camera.x.com/theo
- ThePrimeagenTerminal-first. Live reads of every new tool.x.com/ThePrimeagen
- Kent C. DoddsEpic Web. Testing and teaching, done properly.x.com/kentcdodds
- DaxSST and OpenCode. Infra opinions with no filler.x.com/thdxr
- Kevin Naughton Jr.Coding interviews, and the honest side of a career in software.x.com/KevinNaughtonJr
- Ras MicBuilds in public with AI, one app at a time.x.com/Rasmic
- shadcnThe components under this site, and half the web.x.com/shadcn
- Matt PalmerCursor, the day it ships.x.com/mattyp
- Jeff WeinsteinProduct at Stripe. How a payments product is actually made.x.com/jeff_weinstein
- Peter YangBehind the Craft. How product people actually use AI.x.com/petergyang
- Lauren TanReact Compiler core, now building Grok Bot.x.com/poteto
- Guillermo RauchVercel. Every site I ship lands on his platform.x.com/rauchg
- Andrej KarpathyThe clearest explainer of how the models actually work.x.com/karpathy
- Greg IsenbergStartup ideas, weekly, and which ones are worth building now.x.com/gregisenberg
- Boris ChernyMade Claude Code, the agent that polishes my sites.x.com/bcherny
- Patrick CollisonStripe. Curious about everything, and it shows.x.com/patrickc
- Chris TateVercel Labs. agent-browser and portless, both in my toolbox.x.com/ctatedev
- Naval RavikantLeverage, specific knowledge, and the long game.x.com/naval