Thomas Hsieh

Thomas Hsieh

AI systems and enablement.

I turn noise into signal.

What I do

I help teams put AI into the work they already do. AI enablement is a business process change before it is a technology one. I start with what people actually do and how they behave, design the experience around that, and then deploy AI where it turns noise into signal.

Eleven years in cost, schedule, process improvement and reporting systems taught me where the noise comes from.

What I've built.

AI agents for cost and schedule teams

Aerospace and defense · General Atomics · 2018–now

Released AI agents that use RAG, and designed information retrieval systems used across functional groups and teams.

  • AI agents rolled out to 40 analysts and schedulers
  • Dashboards in use by over 100 program managers and analysts
  • Trained 40 to 50 cost and schedule analysts
  • Three company awards for tools and process work

Cortex, my own AI operating system

Personal project · built with Claude Code · 2026

It reads my mail and messages, keeps a written record of my life and commitments, writes my morning brief, and runs always‑on assistants I talk to by chat.

I built it the way I would want AI rolled out at a company. Every capability has a written permission sheet, safety rules are enforced in code, and no AI decision goes live until I have measured how often it is wrong.

Its email classifier sorts 82% of my mail at 96% accuracy. Plain rules handle the rest.

HomeLinq, an assistant that knows your house

Founder · 2025–now · in build

Ask about your home and it answers from the actual manuals, with the source page cited.

  • Agentic search over 13,000+ appliance manuals
  • A second AI model checks each manual before it joins the library

VoiceFlow, a voice‑to‑text keyboard

Open source · Android

Record, transcribe, clean it up with your own AI prompt, and insert it into any app. Bring your own key, or run fully offline on the phone.

Built because I did not want to pay $30 a month for a dictation app.

See it on GitHub

How I work

I view AI as a way to reclaim our lives.

A serial creator.

Self-taught in animation, music production, iOS development and UI design, because I would rather learn the tool than wait for someone else to. These days I build mostly by directing Claude Code and Codex.

From program controls to AI, by way of building things.

  1. 2025–nowHomeLinqFounder
  2. 2018–nowGeneral AtomicsProject Control Analyst, then Business Process Analyst
  3. 2022AntlerFounder in Residence
  4. 2020–2024Side venturesFounded Soulbii, a virtual business card built with a three‑person dev team. Ran operations for NeedThat. Built Asian Hustle Network's website, member directory and marketplace.
  5. 2015–2018Northrop GrummanProgram Control Analyst
  6. 2010–2013University of California, IrvineB.A. Business Economics

Have a noisy problem? Let's find the signal.

If your team wants AI in the work people actually do, I'd like to hear about it. Remote, based in Austin.

© 2026 Thomas Hsieh