Drew
Burchfield
Product strategy and AI delivery for teams navigating what's next.
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.
Now I'm working directly with companies on AI transformation, enabling teams to ship faster and building the systems to make it stick. In a lot of ways, it feels like 2009 again.
How I Work
I'm a technically-minded product leader and former founder who still likes to build. Over 15+ years, I've shipped products, owned P&Ls, and sat across from buyers. In AI, the advantage isn't moving faster. It's understanding the business well enough to choose the right problems and being clear enough to turn that into working systems.
Full-Stack Operator
I think in revenue models, data layers, and customer experience at the same time. I can go deep on architecture and come back up to talk to the board.
People Get Better
The thing I'm most proud of is watching people grow. I find the ones with curiosity, give them real problems, and get out of the way. Good product leadership compounds through people.
Real Stakes
I've spent years making product calls with revenue, headcount, and customer trust on the line. Every decision had to hold up in the market. That kind of judgment comes from carrying real responsibility over a long time.
Agentic Systems
Two years of daily work with AI coding agents, distilled into a reproducible system. Four agents running off a shared toolkit. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Applied AI
A sample of production tools, experiments, and utilities. Each one started with a real problem.
HelpScout MCP Server 
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.
gogcli-safe 🦞
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.
Obsidian Graph
The search layer under Kindling. Vector embeddings power multi-hop navigation, hub detection, and sub-millisecond semantic search across the entire knowledge base.
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.
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.
Shortcuts Toolkit
Programmatic generation of Apple Shortcuts by reverse-engineering the binary plist format. Build complex automations in code instead of the visual editor.
The Imposter Experiment
A breakfast table probability question from my niece turned into a Monte Carlo simulator, then a live arena where 15 AI models deceive and detect each other in real time. Presented at AI Tinkerers Nashville and featured in the national AI Tinkerers newsletter.
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.
Writing with AI: A Product Leader's Guide
How to use AI as a drafting partner while maintaining clarity and reducing revision cycles.
Let's Talk
If any of this resonates, I'd love to hear from you. I always enjoy meeting people who are thinking about where things are headed.
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