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What I want to build and learn during the Academy year.
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Scale Lucky
Lucky works in demos. Next, it has to work every day, for real people. I want to go from booth demos to daily users in the blind and low-vision community, starting with the Foundation Fighting Blindness chapters that already test it, and find out what keeps someone using it on day 30. VISIONS also taught me that $20 a month is the wrong price: many of the people Lucky is for live on fixed incomes and rely on state agencies to buy their tools, so I'll work out grants and state programs to reach them.
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Learn to build a company
I can build products and pitch them. Next, I want to learn how to raise money, hire people better than me, and build a team that wins. Those are things I can't teach myself from a repo.
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Work inside an AI lab
I've fine-tuned models and built products on top of them. I want to spend my co-op at Anthropic — to understand how frontier models handle edge cases and uncertainty at the alignment level, and bring that rigor back to Lucky. When a blind user's voice assistant mishears a command or hallucinates a document summary, the stakes are real.