Brent Ho Ming Xiu

Contact

• Email — PLACEHOLDER
• LinkedIn — PLACEHOLDER
• GitHub — PLACEHOLDER

Summary

Independent researcher with operating experience in advisory tooling, decision support, and AI-assisted research workflows. Writes in public at BrentNotes.

Professional experience

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Independent work

• Less Typical — independent research practice on language, judgment, and tacit expertise. Active research.
• whenshouldi.com — experimental conversational decision-support project. Experimental.
• NextNest — completed commercial experiment in mortgage decision and advisory tooling. The postmortem is part of the BN evidence.

Capabilities — with evidence

• Applied AI systems

  Built and tested workflows involving LLM prompting, context engineering, reusable skills, coding agents, terminal-based orchestration, evaluation, memory, and tool use.

  → See selected Cases

• Research and analysis

  Question framing, claim/evidence ledger discipline, source hierarchy, argument mapping, competing explanations, productive failure.

  → See Cases

• Writing and communication

  Long-form editorial writing with visible authorship. Truth/structure then voice. Sentence-as-camera. Plain about uncertainty.

  → See Notes

Education

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