Drew
Burchfield

Founded Aloompa in 2009 during the App Store transformation. Cold-called Bonnaroo, they took a chance, and we built the first festival app. Over 15 years and two acquisitions, we grew to serve thousands of events around the world.

AI has me back in the deep end, building and working with teams navigating the same shift. In many ways, it feels a lot like 2009 again.

12 yrs 2009โ€“2021
Founder
Aloompa
3 yrs 2021โ€“2024
Head of Product
CUE Audio
2 yrs 2024โ€“2026
VP Product
WMT Digital
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01

Agentic Systems

Examples of how I'm building

Two years of daily work with AI coding agents, distilled into a reproducible system. Four agents running off a shared toolkit, not four separate configs. The setup covers philosophy, workflows, and the full stack: plugins, skills, MCP servers, CLI tools, and infrastructure.

Agentic Setup

The complete blueprint: how four AI coding agents share a unified skill library, coordinate through MCP servers, and enforce quality gates before anything ships. Portable, version-controlled, reproducible on a new machine.

System 65 Plugins 77 Skills 10+ MCP Servers

Not My Job

Claude Code plugin marketplace. One install, ten plugins. Someone has to audit your subscriptions, tell you when you're wrong, and deal with LinkedIn.

Marketplace Claude Code 10 Plugins

Braintrust

Gemini, Codex, and Claude in parallel on the same prompt. Second opinions on architecture, cross-model code review, parallel research. Different models catch different things.

Multi-Model Claude Gemini Codex

Project Bootstrap

Auto-detect language, set up quality tooling, and run agent-driven PR review cycles before merge. The quality gate that closes the loop.

Quality Claude Code CI/CD
02

Applied AI

Ground Truth

A sample of production tools, experiments, and utilities. Each one started with a real problem.

HelpScout MCP Server stars

Production MCP servers and plugins for Help Scout, in use by enterprise support teams you'd recognize. Works with any MCP-compatible client. One-click install via Desktop Extensions. Optional PII redaction.

MCP Server TypeScript Help Scout API

gogcli-safe ๐Ÿฆž

Agent-safe Google Workspace access for OpenClaw and similar agents. Compile-time safety profiles physically remove dangerous commands from the binary. They don't get disabled, they don't exist. Fork of steipete/gogcli.

Agent Safety Go Google Workspace

Obsidian Graph MCP

Personal knowledge base turned semantic search engine. Voyage Context-3 embeddings + pgvector. 0.9ms search latency. Multi-hop connection graphs, hub detection, orphan discovery.

MCP Server Python pgvector Voyage

MTE Grid Watch

Real-time power outage dashboard for Middle Tennessee Electric. Live SSE updates, interactive county map, restoration estimates, and trend analysis across 16 counties and 359K customers. Built after a major storm because the official outage map wasn't cutting it.

Dashboard TypeScript React Hono PostgreSQL

Mic KeepWarm

Fixes the 2-5 second push-to-talk activation delay on macOS. Keeps microphone hardware awake for instant voice transcription with AirPods, Bluetooth headsets, and built-in mic.

Utility Swift macOS Audio

Shortcuts Toolkit

Programmatic generation of Apple Shortcuts by reverse-engineering the binary plist format. Build complex automations in code instead of the visual editor.

Utility JavaScript Apple Shortcuts Binary Plist
03

Writing

Thinking out loud about AI, product, and the intersection.

The Articulation Requirement

AI is quickly removing the gatekeepers between idea and execution. What's left is your ability to think clearly.

Jan 2026 ยท 5 min

Writing with AI: A Product Leader's Guide

How to use AI as a drafting partner while maintaining clarity and reducing revision cycles.

Dec 2025 ยท 3 min
Drew Burchfield

Let's Connect

Building things and writing about what's changing. If you're working on something interesting, I'd love to hear about it.

drewburchfield@gmail.com