Chase Hughes

3x founder, 2 exits via acquisition, 3 US patents in AI systems. I build agentic systems where reliability and UX matter as much as the model—from scaling ProAI through acquisition to running autonomous agents on edge hardware. Currently focused on agent-first product design: why ad-hoc route planning beats rigid graph workflows, and what it takes to ship AI that actually works for users.

Chase Hughes

WRITING

Lessons in Building Agents with Self-Recursive Improvement Mar 2026

A framework for agents that evaluate, modify, and evolve their own behavior—including the self-improvement.skill library.

The Post-Graph Era: Why Primitives Are Replacing Workflows in Autonomous Agents Feb 2026

Why the guardrails we built to make agents safe are now the things making them dumb.

The Agentic Shift: 2026 Playbook Jan 2026

A quantitative analysis of why 95% of AI pilots fail.

Beyond the Replica: The Case for First-Principles Agents Jan 2026

Why true agentic efficiency requires abandoning human workflows.

PROJECTS

  1. AI-Based Business Strategy Generation
    US Patent Pending
    System that generates competitive strategy documents from market data using multi-step LLM reasoning.
  2. Multi-Agent Market Research System
    US Patent Pending
    Automated market research utilizing a plurality of linked AI agents for comprehensive industry analysis.
  3. Braid
    Open Source / GitHub
    Visual builder for LangGraph agents. Drag-and-drop agent design without losing access to the underlying graph.