AI Product Operator · Founder, Unbound. Building governed multimodal systems across identity, media, evaluation, distribution and growth.

Atlanta, GA
Joined May 2026
AI systems don’t become valuable because they generate. They become valuable when they can be governed, evaluated, and deployed. I built UNBOUND/AI to show the proof across identity, voice, video, distribution, and correction. Inspect the system ↓ steven-shaw-ai-portfolio.unb…
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The world gets a vote. Eka Robotics combines vision with force feedback. Resistance becomes information the robot can act on. How quickly can your system change its mind when reality pushes back? // STATIC MONKEY
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Your next great shot might already exist. Adobe and NVIDIA’s Frame.io work makes footage searchable by what happens inside it. An archive becomes another chance to create. What could you make with everything you’ve already made? // STATIC MONKEY
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The most expensive prompt in AI: “We already settled this.” That’s a person paying twice for the same decision. I want AI that remembers why an idea was rejected, what made the revision better, and which details took six attempts to get right. Progress should accumulate. // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁. The prototype can be rough. The first test can fail. Pick the smallest thing that would tell you whether the idea has legs. Build it. Find out. An old assumption has had the last word long enough. // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. Somewhere, someone understands a problem the rest of us haven't noticed. Give them the tools to attempt a solution. I want to see what gets built when more people get that chance. // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗧𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮. The first thing we ask a new tool to do is usually an old task. Then comes the better question: What can I attempt now that I couldn't before? That's where my interest in AI begins. // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁. You ruled it out when you lacked the team, the tools, or the time. Something changed. Did your answer? Before you abandon the idea again, make sure you're using today's constraints. // STATIC MONKEY
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Your next AI win might be one word. SHIP. REWORK. REVIEW. @OpenAI’s Decisions API, announced in limited preview, uses Luna to answer questions from a set of choices you define, using text or image context. That’s useful when work keeps stopping at “where does this go?” The part I’d spend time on: defining those choices. What qualifies for SHIP? What needs REWORK? When should it land on someone’s desk? A short answer can carry a lot of operational weight. What recurring decision keeps landing on yours? // STATIC MONKEY
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You’re still the start button. Check the notification. Open the app. Tell the agent what happened. @OpenAI’s MCP Events lets supported app events trigger work you’ve already defined. The opportunity: stop spending attention restarting the same workflow. What are you still checking manually just to tell something else to begin? // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝘀. 62,500 extra Work/Codex credits landed in my Pro account. Roughly $2,500 in usage at OpenAI’s published conversion. Expires December 31. We’re building Static Monkey with these tools every day. More capacity means more room to run the hard jobs, test the failures, and get systems into production. @OpenAI @thsottiaux @sama — credit where it’s due. 👊 God mode enabled. 💀 // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗲’𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸. @OpenAI's Team Tasks don't inherit the creator's personal memories, custom instructions, or chat history. That workflow you've spent months refining? Make it explicit: source documents, accepted examples, and what a good result looks like. If only one person knows how to make it work, you still have a bottleneck. What's the unwritten rule your team runs on? // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁. @OpenAI's plugin extensions put tools inside ChatGPT. Sign in with ChatGPT lets eligible users opt to use their plan allowance in participating apps. A specialist tool can win by solving one step exactly where it's needed. The founder's tradeoff: easier access to customers, more dependence on someone else's platform. Standalone, plugin, or both? // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗥𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 “𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲” 𝗯𝗼𝘅. @OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra intelligence at 1/5 the standard input/output token prices. Catalog cleanup. Stale docs. Localization. Reprice the work you shelved. Include review time. What comes off hold first? // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿. @OpenAI's Dots can take on ongoing work. Your part: define a good result, what needs your judgment, and when the job is done. What would you hand over first? // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗔 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. A missing confirmation does not mean the action failed. Check what actually happened before you run it again. Otherwise, recovery can create the duplicate you're trying to avoid. // STATIC MONKEY
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Giving independent evaluators permanent access is a meaningful commitment. The next question is how their findings affect a release: who can hold it, what must be corrected, and what evidence clears it? That is where oversight becomes operational.
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
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𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲? Before calling a workflow human-supervised, test whether the reviewer can pause it, reject the output and send it back for correction. Approval needs working controls. // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. The next operator needs the current version, unresolved decisions and permission to act. If they have to reconstruct the conversation before taking over, the handoff is unfinished. // STATIC MONKEY
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𝗡𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. Before an agent starts, define what makes it pause: conflicting instructions, missing evidence, an action outside its authority. A useful agent needs a clear boundary it can recognize. // STATIC MONKEY
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