ontheside.ai — Side projects from DeVaris Brown https://ontheside.ai The side-project portfolio of DeVaris Brown — operator and builder shipping AI-native tools for sales, ops, federal investigators, and the dinner table. en hi@devaris.com (DeVaris Brown) Assistive, not autonomous: why agents should draft, not ship https://ontheside.ai/writing/2026-04-28-assistive-not-autonomous-why-agents-should-draft-not-ship 2026-04-28-assistive-not-autonomous-why-agents-should-draft-not-ship Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The case for agents that wait. Lessons from building Prod, MerchOps, and IndieOS — three products that all converged on the same human-in-the-loop pattern. Memory beats context window https://ontheside.ai/writing/2026-03-14-memory-beats-context-window 2026-03-14-memory-beats-context-window Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why long-running projects need a persistent narrative, not a bigger prompt. With diagrams from IndieOS. The CRM is the moat https://ontheside.ai/writing/2026-02-02-the-crm-is-the-moat 2026-02-02-the-crm-is-the-moat Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Eighteen months building FastFollow. The model is commodity. The integrations are the product. What I learned shipping Conduit to 1.0 https://ontheside.ai/writing/2024-11-18-what-i-learned-shipping-conduit-to-1-0 2024-11-18-what-i-learned-shipping-conduit-to-1-0 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT OSS go-to-market is mostly about reducing 'time to first awe.' Here's how we did it.