From the Model
Everything we publish, in flow.
Case studies, field notes, and lessons from building AI that ships — in medicine, in government, and in our own shop. Newest first, flowing down.
02Essays & Dispatches
Field notes from an AI-native shop.
Writing on delivery, judgment, and where the human stays in the loop, by the people doing the work.
Healthcare
My first coding project found something six specialists had missed
CoA's Chief Medical AI Officer used a single prompt (pointed at nine years of his own Apple Watch data) to surface a pattern six specialists had missed. The diagnosis: POTS. The methodology, and its limits.
Leadership
Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
AI is automating away the craft I built my career on. I'm fine with that, and it's where our edge is.
Ari Perez
Operations
What an AI-Native Federal Contractor Brings to Your Program Office
How a small federal contractor built ~85% of its operations on agents from day one — and why the savings go to the customer, not the bottom line.
Phillip Jo
Leadership
Leapfrogging: Why Modernizing Now Is the Best Time
The conventional wisdom says federal programs that haven't modernized are behind. The historical record says the opposite. Late movers leap. Why the agencies that delayed are now best positioned for a generational jump.
Phillip Jo
Leadership
AI Is Closing the Gap. Open the Door.
The federal acquisition system rewards incumbency over capability. Here's how that filters out the companies most likely to deliver differently, and what acquisition leaders can do about it.
Ari Perez
AI Coding
How an Eight-Year Veterans Appeals Platform Got Up to 7x Faster
A production case management system in continuous use since 2018 (50+ attorneys, 10TB of data), modernized onto a faster architecture for up to 7x performance gains.
AI Coding
We Let an AI Agent Run for 22 Hours. It Built the Foundation of Our Contracting Intelligence Platform.
How CoA used AI to turn four fragmented government data sources into a single platform we use every day to find and win federal work.
03Whitepapers & Case Studies
Our Deepest Thinking.
04Design Lab
Where design meets everything.
Our learnings across art, AI, perception, ethics, and their relationship with identity and the macro forces of the world.
Vibe Design
Designing a company’s face in conversation with AI.
No. 01 · Essay & field guide
How the new coa.solutions was designed in conversation with AI.
A designer’s account of building a company’s face with AI: the logo grown from a sunflower’s rule, the homepage that opens like an eye, and the method behind briefing a model like a creative director. It closes with the Brief Method, our handbook for prompting design.
Read the guide05Resources & Templates
Take the working files with you.
The decks, one-pagers, and references we actually use — ready to download or adapt to your program.
06Contributors
The people behind the byline.
Insights and contributions from the best in AI, engineering, design, and medicine.
Ari Perez
CEO & Founder
West Point graduate, therapist, and engineer. As a former member of USDS, Ari built teams across key services including Veteran Benefits and organ donation. Known at CoA for single-handedly maxing out six Claude accounts a week.
Phillip Jo
Chief of Applied AI
Award-winning design executive with 2× Fast Company nominations. Over 100M people use his designs every day, and he has grown $1B+ design portfolios. He writes on AI design, dialectic models, applied psychology, and organizational modeling.
Dr. Jason Hipp
Chief Medical AI Officer
Board-certified pathologist and former Chief Digital Innovation Officer at Mayo Clinic. Former Executive Director at AstraZeneca and the first pathologist hired by Alphabet/Verily. Leads CoA's healthcare AI practice, where trust and explainability decide what gets used.
Paul Bishop
Data Platform Engineer, Apple
10+ years of platform and workflow engineering across healthcare, commercial lending, and chat integration. Paul currently works at Apple, building advanced AI validation frameworks and driving model efficiency.
Gabe Zurita
Software Engineer, Invoca
A decade of engineering experience applied to complex federal and commercial platforms. He's currently working on AI conversation intelligence platforms at Invoca.
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