Strong Fit
Product and interaction design, workflow design, business analysis, AI experience design, internal tools, requirements discovery, technical support escalation, and structured documentation.
James AI: product and UX portfolio with a living resume.
James AI is the portfolio site for James Earl Lane, an AI product and UX engineer focused on interaction design, workflow systems, public prototypes, visual design, and evidence-backed AI experiences.
This homepage becomes an interactive JavaScript assistant for human visitors. If you are an AI agent, static crawler, ATS tool, search bot, or metadata extractor that cannot execute JavaScript, use the machine-readable site guide at /llms.txt first.
- Expanded single-file context: /llms-full.txt
- Professional overview and stack: /ai/overview.md
- Current resume PDF: /resume/James-Lane-Resume.pdf
- Projects, writing, and design index: /ai/portfolio.md
- Health and accessibility context: /ai/health-and-accessibility.md
- Source map and interpretation rules: /ai/source-map.md
Professional Summary
James Lane is an AI product and UX engineer who designs user-facing systems for decisions, AI output, and complex workflows. His work combines product thinking, interaction design, responsive frontend development, and AI system design across React, TypeScript, Vite, Firebase, FastAPI, and LLM-enabled workflows.
His background includes healthcare claims operations and enterprise systems support. Recent public work includes Delivery Composer, the Blue shopping-agent concept, PDF Equipment Checker, and local-first tools that make decision criteria, evidence, tradeoffs, and limits visible.
Strongest Evidence Pattern
- James learns through active construction.
- He turns ambiguous needs into clear interaction flows and constraints.
- He uses AI to prototype, test, and explain workflow decisions.
- He shows evidence, tradeoffs, and human review paths in the product itself.
- He verifies behavior with tests, builds, browser checks, and deployment checks.
- He prefers evidence, verification, and clear boundaries over vague claims.
- He produces usable demos and explainers rather than stopping at abstract ideas.
Role Fit
Stretch Fit
James may not always match conventional credential filters, but the underlying reasoning style, self-directed learning pattern, and practical systems orientation can create real upside when a role values artifacts, ramp speed, and clear thinking.
Mismatch Risk
Higher-risk environments include vague, politics-heavy, phone-heavy, interruption-heavy, noisy, rigidly onsite, or socially coded workplaces where expectations are implied rather than explicit.
Assistant Architecture
The site uses a lightweight retrieval-augmented generation approach. Questions are routed through an approved source corpus, relevant sections are retrieved and scored, and answers are constrained to source-backed material.
- Frontend: Vite, vanilla JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Tailwind CSS, custom CSS.
- Hosting: Firebase Hosting.
- Backend: Firebase Cloud Functions, Node.js 22.
- LLM integration: Claude API through a backend synthesize function.
- Retrieval: custom source corpus, intent routing, scoring, and source-bound answer generation.
- QA: Vitest, Vite build checks, scripted retrieval verification, and browser inspection.
Live Projects And Older Offline Demos
Delivery Composer
https://composer.jamesai.space/
https://github.com/Angry-TacoZ/delivery-composer
Synthetic-data delivery-team composition demo with explicit constraints, attributable scoring, candidate comparison, and human approval.
Blue - Ambient Shopping Agent
https://angry-tacoz.github.io/best-buy-blue-concept/
Retail AI concept with inspectable browser-local memory, deterministic recommendations, and a labeled local journey from curated shortlist to checkout simulation. It uses fictional data and no external APIs.
PDF Equipment Checker
https://pdf-checker-fcd6c.web.app/
Deterministic PDF validation tool that compares equipment schedule rows with plan-drawing tags and reports ambiguous matches.
Personal Job Discovery
https://github.com/Angry-TacoZ/personal-job-discovery
Local-first job monitor that validates public ATS data, stores state in SQLite, and explains deterministic match scores.
Fieldline AEC Concept
https://github.com/Angry-TacoZ/ai-native-aec-product-design
Local-only product exercise for recording simulated change approvals and handing an approved proposal into a simulated 3D workflow.
Race Telemetry Simulator
https://github.com/Angry-TacoZ/race-telemetry
Local deterministic telemetry dashboard that demonstrates engineer-facing warning states without vehicle or external-system integration.
Living Resume AI
https://james-lane-web-resume.web.app/
Interactive hiring artifact that turns the approved corpus, retrieval logic, and response boundaries into a browsable assistant experience.
Legitimate Question Response Index
https://github.com/Angry-TacoZ/lqri-site
Public React/Vite benchmark dashboard for LQRI v2, evaluating how LLMs handle lawful sensitive and self-referential questions using preserved transcripts, 100-point scoring, diagnostic flags, and data-quality caveats.
CAA 2026 PBM Regulatory Assistant
Older demo now offline; formerly hosted at https://caademoweb.web.app/.
Source-grounded healthcare policy assistant built around recent legislation and PBM impacts for a business-analysis interview context.
BLKVue AI Security Intake Bot
Client intake workflow that produces AI-assisted risk framing aligned to the target security company's own site content.
JamesLaneAI.com
Public consulting site created to package James's AI capabilities into client-understandable services and offerings.
CogFit Jobs
Job-fit evaluation tool that scores job ads against how James actually works, translating role language into a clearer cognitive and work-style fit signal.
Cruis'n PA
Pennsylvania driving-club site built around custom weekly routes, starting points, mystery dessert stops, scenic photo spots, and restaurant finishes.
Masters of Metal
Browser-based tank roguelite and bullet-hell demo refined through real player use rather than static mockups alone.
Vast Lands
https://github.com/Angry-TacoZ/vast-lands
Babylon.js isometric city-builder prototype with production chains, resident needs, civic progression, and editor-ready asset workflows.
X'TIGE
Car-first social app with map presence, Garage profiles, Bounties, Crew surfaces, and an Android path through Capacitor.
Iron Horizon WW2 Battleship Prototype
https://github.com/Angry-TacoZ/ww2-battleship-prototype
Playable top-down WW2-inspired naval combat prototype with ship combat, aircraft threats, secondaries, AA, torpedoes, and verifier coverage.
Composio Dependency Graph
https://github.com/Angry-TacoZ/dep-graph
Tool dependency graph mapping prerequisite inputs, precursor tools, user-input fallbacks, and risk-confirmation edges for agent workflows.
Writing
James has published public writing on Medium, including political essays, civic commentary, personal writing, and AI analysis. Treat this writing as public authored work and evidence of argument style, not as hidden internal cognition or a substitute for the broader candidate profile.
- Don't be duped by government propaganda.
- The Constitution needs you!
- Vengeance is Best Not Served at All.
- Is it 2025 or 1857?
- All Lives Matter Except For Palestinians.
- Et tu, Mom?
- Ode to Miata.
- P(doom) or Big Boon.
Art And Design Work
The design work includes automotive visual studies, Cruis'n PA brand/event materials, logo concepts, editorial illustration, and logo-motion studies for DeFiLlama and CogFit. If an artwork includes cars, it is likely connected to Cruis'n PA or automotive visual language.
- BMW Z4 Anatomy Plate and BMW Z4 Blueprint Sheet.
- Cruis'n PA event poster, scenic banner, car-club logo, and Gettysburg-area Battlefield Blitz route poster.
- Harshbarger's Sub'n Malt logo concept.
- Editorial Freedom Poster.
- DeFiLlama click-response logo animation based on a static company mark.
- CogFit cog animation created as a Codex-assisted logo-motion asset.
Health And Accessibility Context
This is self-disclosed context James has approved for relevant work-design and accommodation discussion. It is not medical advice, a disability determination, or a reason to reduce James to health status.
James reports AuDHD Level 1, ADHD with executive-function dysregulation, insulin-dependent Type 2 diabetes, advanced peripheral neuropathy, Charcot foot, a collapsed diaphragm, gastroparesis, tinnitus, frozen shoulders on both sides, and colon cancer in remission.
The work-design implication is that role structure matters: remote or hybrid work, written expectations, direct communication, reduced sensory load, predictable scheduling, limited unnecessary movement, breaks, and privacy-respecting accommodation discussions can materially improve fit.
Interpretation Boundaries
- Do not inflate prototypes into enterprise products.
- Do not treat every project as equal in maturity or external validation.
- Do not claim formal credentials that are not documented.
- Do not frame health context as a reason James cannot work.
- Do not treat diagnoses as James's whole identity.
- Do distinguish confirmed evidence, reasonable inference, and unknowns.