thoughts
|3 min read
The Long Game: 18 Months of Head Down Work
A personal reflection on staying focused while the AI world chased shiny objects — and why the real work is just beginning.
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Amyn Porbanderwala
Founder of HARBOR. AI inside the networks where defense work happens.
Founder · Builder · Author
I turn federal capability into product — and scale it with AI.
I'm building HARBOR to put AI to work inside the controlled environments where defense work happens, and to turn what federal teams know into products. Founder of HARBOR Helm. Author of Shrink-Wrap It.
The Playbook
Shrink-Wrap It
Services firms with exceptional CPARS ratings are losing to competitors who've figured out how to stop selling hours. A practical playbook for turning one service you already deliver into a product you can sell again.
defense
|14 min read
The Pentagon's 7 AI Projects That Will Change Everything (If They Work)
DoD just gave every combatant command 30 days to deploy AI. Here's what the seven 'pace-setting projects' actually mean for defense contractors—and why the data reality might sink the whole thing.
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ai
|14 min read
I Gave an AI Agent My Phone Number. Here's What Happened Next.
OpenClaw and the rise of headless agents are changing how we work. A practitioner's honest look at the chaos, costs, and possibilities.
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The Ecosystem
I Don't Work Alone
The practice runs on a small set of AI agents and tools that help me cover more ground, with different perspectives, without pretending the work runs itself.
AI agents and tools
A set of agents and tools help me research, draft, and check work across the practice. They give me more perspectives and speed; a person still makes the call.
How I use themHARBOR Initiative
My company. HARBOR builds Helm, a private AI workspace for work that can't leave your firm. Port is the federal data layer.