Joel Beam · applied AI systems operator

I design the control plane agents ship through.

Since December 2025 I have been embedding with a real operator problem — SOF candidate preparation — and making agents produce durable work under gates. That is the forward-deployed job. The page is the demo: talk to the record, then click Warrior Path.

Not a staff SWE. Not an ML researcher. joel@fastops.ai

Talk to the record

Same voice stack as Warrior Path's whitepaper agent

OpenAI Realtime, ephemeral token, WebRTC. Corpus-bounded — it can only speak numbers that are on this page. Ten-minute cap.

Microphone is optional and starts only when you tap and allow it. Audio is processed by OpenAI. Nothing is stored.

FDE proof — Warrior Path

A forward-deployed engineer sits in a messy environment, ships a working system, and puts authority constraints around agents. Warrior Path is that loop, live: warriorpath.ai.

  • 1,002 PRs

    warrior-path-ai (812 merged). Org-wide 1,829 PRs / 1,313 merged.

  • Killed, then shipped

    City-era incarnation unshippable. Live repo rebuilt 2026-04-15 under gates.

  • DAU 24 / MAU 83

    June 2026 export. 96 candidates with a login in 30 days. Not fully deduplicated — those are the artifact numbers.

  • Voice in production

    Brief Me, whitepaper briefing, mentor voice, workout voice. This site reuses the whitepaper Realtime pattern.

What I actually do

Govern agent authority
Shared GitHub creds ≠ human intent. Phone-only approver App. Exception #316→#318: four identities, 9m 59s, Plan-SHA still applied. Gate blocked a defect in its own code (PR #295).
Falsify my own method
Knowledge-injection trial: 0 wins, 3 losses, 7 ties. Warnings loaded, behavior repeated 7/8. Swim-buddy A/B n=21: 90% vs 9% error-catch.
Split conversation, control, execution
Ridgeline COS. Proposer never holds credentials. Merge authorizes; enclave executes; receipt confirms (93 seconds).

Discoverable assets

Most of the load-bearing GitHub is private. AI hiring managers get 404s if I paste those links. Public repos below; private ones are a walkthrough plus the live product.

Open in the browser

  • fastops-os

    Multi-model orchestration engine. Public.

  • agent-orient

    Runtime terrain brief arriving agents fetch. Public.

  • nsw-v3

    Public NSW v3, created 2026-01-19.

Live / walkthrough

  • warrior-path-ai

    Live product. Repo private. This is the FDE proof.

  • fastops-pipeline

    Private. PR #295 and #316→#318 are the governance spine. Screenshare.

  • ridgeline-cos

    Private. Three-plane OS. Proof-run receipt 93s after merge.