Featured Projects & Software
Platforms, autonomous systems, and tools engineered to solve real-world problems.
MarScout
marscout.com
Autonomous marketing intelligence platform built with LLMs and data pipelines to automate competitor analysis and account research.
Neighborly
neighborly.up.railway.app
Peer-to-peer neighborhood sharing app letting neighbors borrow tools, share household gear, and build community.
Taggist
taggist.jameskanka.com
Visual social shopping platform that turned lifestyle photos into interactive, shoppable storefronts with instant product tagging.
Soda Deal Tracker
jameskanka.com/soda/
Real-time price tracker for Coca-Cola, Pepsi & Mountain Dew families across local grocery retailers (Publix, Kroger, Walmart). Normalized to cost-per-ounce with buy/wait recommendations.
The Stochastic Oracle
oracle.jameskanka.com
Minimalist magic answer engine providing cryptographically random entropy and symmetry breaking for humans and autonomous AI agents facing decision paralysis.
Featured Reading
A curated glimpse into my personal reading library of 267 books across cognitive science, evolutionary biology, physics, and strategy.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
"This book set me on a course to think more critically and read more non-fiction. It's not for everyone but it was exactly what I needed at the time."
The Order of Time
"Physics is built on events, not things. There is no universal present in the universe—local presents run differently."
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
"1300+ pages of deep epistemology, Bayesian inference, avoiding inflationary terms, and clear thinking."
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
"This is a great story well told. I recommend everyone give it a listen."
Dungeon Crawler Carl
"This series is a cultural phenomenon. It gets better and better."
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
"I was already familiar, but this is worth everyone reading."
Notes & Articles
Thoughts on GTM strategy, AI adoption in healthcare, and software experiments.
Perception as Prediction, Internal Models, and Consciousness Profiles
Reflections on Floris de Lange's discussion of predictive perception, internal world models, and why moving beyond binary questions of consciousness toward multi-dimensional profiles reframes machine and biological ethics.
The Stochastic Oracle: A Magic 8-Ball for AI and Humans
Why I built a minimalist, edge-computed magic answer engine for deliberating AI reasoning loops, human decision fatigue, and breaking symmetry in the latent space.
Why I Created the Soda Tracker
How a love for Mountain Dew Zero and unpredictable grocery store sales led to using Gemini in Antigravity IDE to build a live deal tracker.
Sometimes I Bring a Camera to Work
Set days, company events, and the occasional portrait.
Where I've Led GTM & Marketing
A track record of scaling ARR, building high-performing teams, and category leadership.
