Public
@ben_ai_eng is the public build log for product taste, agentic engineering, OSS, and sports-science software.
Open XAgentic sports scientist / Cognition ambassador / product systems engineer
I build applied AI products that make high-context work usable: coaching intelligence, client operations, OSS developer tools, and the systems around them.
Agentic sports scientist product for coaching, nutrition, recovery, and athlete context.
Applied AI work across client artifacts, workflow surfaces, and operational delivery.
Ambassador signal and public contribution lanes: orca_ade, small harness, OpenClaw.
Operating profile
Founder-led products, applied AI work at Wellgentic, Cognition ambassador credibility, OSS contributions, and a differentiated agentic sports scientist direction.
Public
@ben_ai_eng is the public build log for product taste, agentic engineering, OSS, and sports-science software.
Open XOpen source
orca_ade, small harness, and OpenClaw contribution lanes keep the engineering surface public.
Cognition
Ambassador work sits beside the product portfolio as a signal for agentic builder workflows.
Operator
Wellgentic and ImprvHealth show the same bias: preserve context, reduce handoff loss, and ship usable systems.
Read it as shipped work first, credibility signals second, and system taste throughout.
Selected work
The through-line is not a niche. It is an operating pattern: understand the real workflow, compress it into software, then keep the proof visible.
Agentic sports scientist
A training-intelligence product translating coaching, nutrition, recovery, and athlete context into software.
React Native, subscriptions, health data, Coach Nova, applied sports science.
Applied AI operations
Client-facing product and workflow work where generated artifacts have to preserve source fidelity and survive real review.
AI workflows, client delivery, app surfaces, docs, decks, operational QA.
Public technical signal
Ambassador work around agentic engineering, builder workflow taste, and the discipline of shipping from current evidence.
Cognition, public builder notes, agentic product practice.
Operational marketplace
A homeowner and contractor workflow for estimates, project visibility, vendor coordination, and payment-ready handoffs.
React, Supabase, marketplace UX, services operations.
Vertical SaaS
Repair-shop operating software for intake, queue visibility, customer updates, and pickup coordination.
Workflow automation, customer messaging, queue design.
OSS contribution
Developer-tooling contribution lane focused on practical workflow quality.
Open source, applied developer experience, review discipline.
OSS contribution
Small reproducibility and testing work with tight boundaries and clear behavior.
Harnesses, automation, feedback loops.
OSS contribution
Contribution and triage work around agent/tooling systems with attention to CI and runtime proof.
Agent tooling, CI, runtime validation.
Build log
Public notes on product systems, agentic workflows, Vercel-grade web taste, and OSS work.
X, public writing, build-in-public signal.

Jonathan Ben Newell
@ben_ai_engBuilder profile
I started with bodies and behavior: coaching athletes, learning how plans fail in real life, and seeing where good judgment gets lost between tools, people, and follow-through.
That became the through-line behind ImprvHealth, Wellgentic work, Cognition ambassador work, service marketplaces, vertical SaaS, OSS contributions, and the agentic sports scientist direction: build systems that can hold context and move work forward.
The taste is simple: real workflows, tight feedback loops, visible proof, and software that feels built by an operator.