About
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James Dimachkie · Applied AI · Film

Hi, I’m James.

I find where AI pays off, build it with teams of AI agents, and test what it can and can’t do. I’ve worked this way every day since May 2026.

I also make launch films for AI products, including Decision Models and my own Guardcell.

I came to AI from finance, operations and audit, and I still work in project finance and operations by day. It’s why I build for how work actually gets done, and check the numbers first.

Open to applied-AI roles, launch films and collaborations.View résumé

SC 03 · Work

Selected work

01 · Agent Skill · Open source · Video

Legible Film

An open-source Agent Skill that lets Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents make and edit video, and check the file a viewer receives. I designed it and directed the AI agents that built it. Claude Code made its launch film with it.

Role

  • Product
  • Film method
  • Agent direction
  • Evaluation
cuts inside spoken lines that landed in measured silence, on its test material
240 of 240The README’s Evidence section at release 2.1.0. Test material, not a rate on real projects: cutting at the transcript’s word edges instead put 52 cuts in speech and 78 in breaths, and clipped 6 words.Source
clips matched in a professional editor’s Premiere revision, and 81 of 81 in the next, every placed word within 1 ms
78 of 78The README’s Evidence section at release 2.1.0. One editor’s real revisions, read by the skill; handing a cut to Premiere is still experimental.Source
of the method’s expectations met in five test requests with version 1.0, against 10 of 35 without
35 of 35Five requests, one run each on one model (GPT-6.1 Terra through the Codex CLI), graded by a model from another family. The results say what the test could not control: blinding was partial, and the author's own instruction file loaded into both arms. The expectations measure adherence to the method, not the quality of a film; no film was rendered, watched or heard.Source

02 · Product · Open source · Applied AI

Guardcell

An open-source Outlook add-in that flags possible sensitive disclosures before an email leaves your company, using rules and, on supported clients, a small model on the sender’s device. I designed it, set its evaluation bars and directed the AI agents that built and tested it.

Role

  • Product
  • Design
  • Agent direction
  • Evaluation
documented incidents with outside recipients, rebuilt as test emails and flagged by the current build (development set)
35 of 43Guardcell evaluation, “Real incidents, replayed”: 49 rebuilt, 6 sent inside (not checked by design), 35 asked about. Development evidence: the replay shaped the checks.Source
pre-registered gate plans, failures published
9Gate pre-registrations in the public repo.Source

03 · Film · Launch · AI product

Decision Models and REAX films

A one-minute launch film for Decision Models, followed by three REAX films. I turned a technical product and its evidence into a visual story.

Role

  • Direction
  • Motion
  • Sound design
  • Edit
paid follow-up films
3Client record, 16–19 Oct 2026 (private).

04 · Research · AI agents · Evaluation

Receiver Reliance

A published study of 1,805 synthetic episodes: in seeded-defect tests, a structural check reduced improper handoffs but fewer tasks were completed. Coherent wrong answers still passed.

Two charts from the Receiver Reliance study. In seeded-defect conditions, against transparent release and two static checking policies, Receiver Reliance cut improper handoffs by 1.00, 1.00 and 0.75 per episode, all intervals below zero. It completed 80 of 162 seeded tasks, against 150 of 151, 154 of 155 and 139 of 157.

Role

  • Research direction
  • Study design
  • Analysis
episodes
1,805Receiver Reliance study and data, Zenodo archive (2026-09-06).Source

SC 04 · Approach

How the work happens

One practice in four parts.

More on judgment and verification

  1. 01

    Strategy

    Find where AI pays off. Say plainly where it doesn’t.

  2. 02

    Systems

    Build with teams of AI agents, directed and checked by me.

  3. 03

    Proof

    Test claims before anyone relies on them. Keep failures on record.

  4. 04

    Story

    Make it legible: films, launches, writing that show what it does.

SC 05 · All films

Films

Launch films and product stories, made with code, AI tools and care.

Legible Film launch film · Legible Film · 2026 · 1:47

Direction
Play film
All films

SC 06 · Tools

AI tools and skills

The system my agents work in, and what I built with it.

System

  • ToolAgent studioOne policy for every agent I run, separate worktrees for parallel builds, a shared memory, and review by another model family at the gates that matter.Private

Skills

Tools

  • ToolGuardcellOutlook add-in designed to flag possible sensitive disclosures before Send.PublicSource
  • ToolAgent relayLocal relay for coding agents to hand render jobs to a remote assistant.Private
  • ToolDroid in T3 CodeA local extension I directed that adds Factory Droid to T3 Code, with a live check of delegation and session resume across providers.Private
tokens processed in the 90 days to 27 October 2026, most of it cached context
61.1BMeasured at 8:25 pm Pacific on 27 Oct 2026 from James’s local Claude Code and Codex logs, by Pacific calendar day (30 Jul–27 Oct): 61.13 billion tokens processed, Claude Code 29.09 billion and Codex 32.04 billion. T3 Code’s usage dashboard, which reads the same logs by local day, showed 60.4 billion earlier that day. Agents re-read their working context on every turn, so 96.8% of these tokens were cache reads; the models wrote 225 million tokens of output. Earlier months and other tools are not counted.
agent sessions in the same 90 days, subagents included
5,560Sessions with token usage in James’s local Claude Code and Codex logs, 30 Jul–27 Oct 2026 by Pacific calendar day: Codex 5,129 and Claude Code 431, agent and subagent sessions together. T3 Code’s usage dashboard showed 5,526 earlier that day.
commits since May, most written by agents I directed
3,479Unique commits under James’s git identity since 1 May 2026 across 26 repository histories (copies of the same repository count once), deduplicated with git log on 27 Oct 2026. Agents commit under his identity, so most were written by agents at his direction.

SC 07 · Archive

Archive

  • 2026Disclosure GateProduct, in progressA meeting studio that turns speech into checked, selectively shared notes, with local speech recognition. Guardcell grew out of it.
  • 2026CatchwrightProduct, retiredA retired product and a synthetic study of reviewing document fields against their sources.
  • 2026Guard engineTool, retiredA commit gate that accepted only the files a task claimed. Red-teamed, then measured, and replaced with narrower stops for irreversible actions. Retired in October: about 0.7 s per guarded Claude call, and most sampled denials were false alarms.
  • 2026Evaluator AssuranceResearchTwo AI-assisted case studies of formal-checker integration. Private report; human verification remains open.
  • 2026Claim-review workbenchPrototypeReview a research claim against its source passages, with AI suggestions kept apart from the judgments a person actually records.
  • 2026Arbor & EyeWeb studyAn uncommissioned gallery prototype, from browsing artwork to enquiring about a work.
  • 2026Previous portfolioWebsiteA portfolio built with AI, documenting the design process and an illustrated film.
If you ever need an insanely awesome video, talk to this guy.
Florian Standhartinger · Founder, Decision Models

Let’s build the real thing.

For applied-AI work, a role on your team or launch films:

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