James Mensch
Founder · Engineer
I build for the human side of tech. Cofounder and CTO at OneOnMe, a kinder way to send gifts in a virtualized world. Before that, cofounded Magnifai for public-agency data work and led product and frontend at New Knowledge, fighting disinformation. Engineer at Google in between. At home in Austin with my partner and three dogs.
Writing
- 10 / 2026 Review real AI output before you automate approval
Two extraction mistakes shaped our AI review workflow. What we automated, what stayed with people, and how I'd test the approvals next.
- 09 / 2026 Build your agentic workflow around the work the prompt leaves behind
Turning a prompt into an agentic workflow starts with the work people still do around it. Here's how we found and removed those handoffs.
- 06 / 2026 AI tooling is company infrastructure. Most teams still run it like personal dotfiles.
Every employee runs their own local Claude. Anthropic shipped the shared install; the plugin repo to put through it is the part most teams skip.