I don’t publish employer or client data. That rule leaves a gap: how do you show a system you’ve built without showing what it ran on? My answer was to invent a company.
Redwater Integration is a fictional drone manufacturer. It buys parts, so it needs to know which suppliers it can legally and practically use. That is a real problem for real drone makers. U.S. sourcing rules change often and stack on top of each other, and teams who check suppliers by hand miss things.
What the build does
- Checks each supplier against the relevant NDAA sections and the American Security Drone Act.
- Gives a verdict of cleared, conditional or blocked, with the evidence cited.
- Rates how practical each supplier is to source, as a separate score.
- Writes nothing back without approval, and treats fields owned by a government list as read-only.
Why two scores
The most compliant suppliers are often the hardest to source. If one number blends both, a pass on compliance hides a supply problem, or a good price hides a compliance problem. Two scores shown side by side let a person see the trade-off and decide.
What stays honest
Redwater is labeled fictional everywhere it appears. It is a portfolio build, still in progress, and I show a demo on request. There are no customer logos, quotes or results on it because there are none to claim.
The projects page has the diagram of how a supplier moves through the scoring.
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I’m Seth Levanen. I find the AI shortcuts that keep the quality and drop the busywork. Email me if you want to talk about it.