peopleanalyst

The field of people analytics is wrestling with whether there’s any work left to do in a post-AI world. So have I.

Many products. One argument.

People analytics doesn’t just survive AI — it makes AI better. I built everything below to prove it.

Apps — the products · Stacks — the tech underneath · Parts — recurring patterns · Stats — the numbers. /portfolio for the full writeups.

  1. Landing — typed-contract service layer; 79 MCP tools across 10 spokes.

    People Analytics Toolbox

    Live

    Independently-versioned analytical microservices for people analytics — psychometric diagnostics, preference modeling, privacy primitives, segmentation, statistical enrichment, compensation logic, decision forecasting, metadata-grounded codegen — deployed as a single Next.js application and exposed over two transports: HTTP for engineers, MCP for AI agents. One Vercel project, one Supabase project. The behavioral and statistical foundation consumer apps compose against.

  2. Compensation Toolbox landing — run compensation without a comp team; drop-in comp capabilities for the tools you already use.

    Compensation Toolbox

    Live

    Run compensation without a comp team. The comp-vertical sister to the People Analytics Toolbox — a self-serve store of drop-in compensation capabilities (pay ranges, market benchmarking, pay fairness, wage compliance), exported for the tools comp pros already run, with posted prices and a free tier. The same store shape as the PA Toolbox, every spoke pointed at pay.

  3. Public reader — registry surface at peopleprincipia.com/registry/* with construct family browse, cross-entity linking, distribution plots, and the first live CanonicalPrior (engagement → task performance).

    Principia

    Live

    The continuously-updated, source-graded, citation-verified, Bayesian-prior-bearing registry of organizational science — a survey-not-original-research curation layer that sits on top of CanonicAI's extraction pipelines and feeds canonical priors to the rest of the portfolio over a versioned REST + MCP contract.

  4. Player view — InsightPanel for a CAMS diagnosis with binding-constraint card, trend chart, and surfaced themes.

    Performix

    Live

    A protected-feedback diagnostic for team performance. Scores teams on Capability / Alignment / Motivation / Support (CAMS), names the binding constraint, and renders one accountable action per team. Psychometric-first: the diagnostic engine is real measurement, not a language model. The foundation underneath — constructs, measures, evidence weights — is built by AI-assisted ingest of peer-reviewed I/O psychology and organizational behavior literature, which is the precondition for the product, not a gloss on top of it; AI is a consumer of that foundation, never the engine. Same instrument, three doors: sales-performance variance, AI-transformation readiness, post-acquisition integration. Early build; pre-chasm.

  5. AnyComp.AI — the compensation decision OS, run on your data; white-glove, not a tool you assemble.

    AnyComp.AI

    Live

    The compensation concierge — comprehensive comp analytics plus white-glove service for executives. AnyComp.AI is the org-wide Compensation Decision OS you graduate to from the self-serve Compensation Toolbox: pay decided across all your jobs and people at once, on a replayable cycle audit. The comp parallel to Performix — a polished concierge product off the store.

  6. Dashboard — multi-tool kanban with two-phase actor handoff and per-card execution telemetry

    DevPlane

    Private

    Two products in one project. (1) A local cockpit for multi-tool software development — assignment registry, two-phase actor handoff, coordination-event log, MCP server, CLI, Chrome extension; the operator-side measurement layer AI coding tools' agent-side metrics miss. (2) The portfolio's shared engineering brain — pattern library, architecture maps, session handoffs, cross-project assignment registry, API registry, decision log, capabilities catalog, and the capability-architecture doctrine the whole portfolio is built against.

  7. Magazine landing — newsroom front and editorial entry point

    Fourth & Two

    Private

    Gridiron Platform — a fantasy football platform built around four converging efforts: a GM Command Center (lineup, waivers, trades, draft, rankings), a Python analytics API (PRISM and CAMS frameworks ported to football), an Insight Card system (PRISM trend / CAMS alignment / market-signal cards composed across surfaces), and Strategy League / Football IQ (a coaching-strategy game layered on fantasy leagues with a simulation engine).

  8. Landing

    Namesake

    Live

    A name chosen, not stumbled upon. Every baby-naming product helps parents find names; Namesake is the only one that helps them choose one. Built on twenty years of weekly search data, a per-name composite score (SSA stats × LLM-enriched meaning × cultural-event attribution), a tournament-bracket decision UX with village voting, and a cultural-diffusion research apparatus underneath.

  9. Landing — magazine + sequences

    Vela

    Live

    A study of being human, read through four lenses — figurative art and the museum traditions, the vocabulary of emotion, literature (including the religious and contemplative inheritance), and the behavioral science of how people form, feel, and become. A magazine weaves them; adaptive intelligence learns how each reader moves through the material. The figurative-art player is the room a reader can enter first — one dimension positioned in a much broader project, all of it pointed at one work: helping people replace the belief-rooted thoughts and emotional patterns that work against their lives and communities with ones that work for them.

  10. Penwright

    Penwright

    Private

    An AI-augmented authorship system — corpus control, packet-shaped composition, and a measurement framework that asks whether the writer is better with it, than without it, in six months.

  11. CanonicAI workflow — provided corpus (books, papers, domain documents) → chapter-respecting ingestion → ~8,491-entry asset registry with SHA-256 provenance → canonical, tagged datasets → consumed by Principia, the People Analytics Toolbox, and peopleanalyst.com. (Illustration: the engine has no UI; the diagram stands in for a screenshot — note: SVG predates the 2026 narrowing and should be redrawn.)

    CanonicAI

    Private

    Corpus in, canonical data out. CanonicAI is the engine that turns a provided corpus — books, papers, domain documents — into canonical, queryable datasets, and owns the canonical schema + provenance the rest of the PeopleAnalyst family builds on. A production line, not a prompt.

The argument

They look unrelated — enterprise people analytics, coding tools, AI-augmented authorship, fantasy football, baby naming, figurative art. Each is an instance of one wager: that the science of measuring people is the manual the AI field needs (and vice versa).

And I built all of it — every product above is software I designed and shipped. I take on a few client builds, too: web apps and early-stage analytics applications with this same perspective.

The magazine

Principal-Issues

Methodology-first writing on people analytics, behavioral science, and AI — the principal issues of measuring people well. Not a feed to sort: an adaptive information service that orients what you read to your goals and what you’ve found useful — the next best piece for where you are.

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Get new issues

Subscribe to start — issues oriented to your goals, not a firehose.

Guides

Put the best books to work

Chapter-by-chapter companions that turn landmark books into things you can actually run.

Guide to Work Rules!

Execute every chapter of Laszlo Bock’s playbook — with the research and the methods to do it.

Guide to AI Human Interaction

How people and AI actually work together — the behavioral science behind getting it right.

References Library

The most comprehensive people-analytics reference library anywhere

Books, metrics, and instruments — structured, searchable, and completely free. The reference shelf the field never had.

Books

Structured reads — each book’s thesis, the model it argues, the measures it implies.

HR Metrics

Canonical definitions for the metrics people analytics actually uses.

Survey Instruments

Validated scales, with the items and the evidence behind them.

Your Library

Save what’s useful; build your own working shelf.

Tools

Do the work — in your tools or ours

Two ways in: Wizards for a guided run — start here when you know the problem but not what we call it or which tools relate. Field Kits for the drop-in code packs you run in Sheets, Excel, Power BI, or Tableau.

Wizards

Guided, two-minute diagnostics that walk you to the right answer — and the right tool.

Field Kits

Single-problem code packs that drop into the analytics tool you already use.

Research

The research behind all of it

The peer-reviewed evidence, methodology, and ongoing studies the products, guides, and writing stand on — across the portfolio.

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