A control plane for AI agents that need to take real actions — approvals, allow-lists, audit trails, and kill switches before side effects hit production systems.
- Agents
- Security
- Governance
Simpsonville, South Carolina
Brad Shannon
AI Product Leader & Builder
AI by discipline. Wild light by devotion.
I build AI products end to end — from prototype to production to the operations that keep them running. Twenty-five-plus years across IT, cybersecurity, and cloud gave me the systems instincts; the last several have gone into shipping AI software that real teams depend on.
AI product leaderUSMC VetWildlife photoSimpsonville, SC
@bradshannon
Director of Product Management — Summit 7
Years in IT
25+
security & cloud
Live products
4
shipped & operated
GitHub stars
120+
open-source tools
Print edition
25
limited wildlife
Chapter one — working systems
AI products — built, shipped, and run.
From bradshannon.me/work. Filter the stack, open a card, jump to the live site.
Product I designed, shipped, and operate — focused on turning messy operational context into clear next steps for operators and builders.
- AI product
- Ops
- SaaS
Built end-to-end for hospitality and guest workflows — practical AI, not demo-ware, with the ops layer to keep it running.
- Hospitality
- AI
- Workflows
A builder surface for spinning up agent-oriented tools and experiments quickly — the same five-day cycle energy, productized.
- Agents
- Builder
- Tools
Utilities and experiments I publish when the work is useful beyond my own stack — security, cloud, and AI plumbing.
- GitHub
- Open source
Layers
Builder, operator, field photographer.
Grounded in bradshannon.me/about. Tap a layer for the full stack.
Path
An interactive career map
Scrub the chapters. Service, systems, product leadership, builder now.
Active chapter · 01 / 04
U.S. Marine Corps
Discipline, accountability, and showing up under pressure — the operating system everything else still runs on.
Chapter three — the record
Mission-driven, measured.
25+
Years in IT · security & cloud
4
Live products · shipped & operated
120+
GitHub stars · open-source tools
25
Print edition · limited wildlife
Credentials
- Director of Product Management — Summit 7
- Founder — Agent Action Firewall
- U.S. Marine Corps veteran
- BS, Cybersecurity & Information Assurance — WGU
Manifesto
I build with AI — products, platforms, and the operations that keep them running.
Then I drive west, wait for dawn, and photograph what no system can schedule.
I'm currently Director of Product Management at Summit 7, where I build managed-services solutions for complex, regulated environments. Outside that, I'm the founder of Agent Action Firewall and the builder behind several live AI products — Vitly, GuestGem, and ClankerBuilder among them — each one designed, shipped, and operated by me from idea to users. Before software, I served as a U.S. Marine. Away from the keyboard: wildlife photographer, Canon 80D with a 300mm f/2.8L, chasing light most people are still asleep for.
Available for talks on AI product leadership, agentic systems, and building in public.
Constellation
Interests you can poke
Hover or tap a node. ADHD-friendly map of what pulls focus.
Selected
AI products
Shipping AI that operators can actually run — not slide-deck demos.
Tip: scrub nodes on desktop — each one lights a different thread.
Chapter two — field notes
Wild light. Editions of twenty-five.
Real frames from the field notes. Open a photo. Flip the manifesto.
Field notes
“AI by discipline. Wild light by devotion.”
Operating motto
Terminal
Talk to the harness
Auto-plays a short intro, then accepts commands: whoami, ls ~/products, agents status.
brad — zsh — 80×24
brad@sc ~ interactive shell · type help
Ship test
Would Brad ship this?
Four quick decisions. Score yourself against the Brad operating system.
Question 1 of 4