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Applied AI / Engineering
LegalZoom
Leading applied AI engineering and building systems that connect people with legal help.
Official author profileHumboldt County, California Software & business
Software is onlythe beginning.
I’m Connor Callison, a software builder and business operator. I work from product and engineering through operations and distribution—because the hard part is making the whole system move.
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Operating position
The work after the prototype is where the truth shows up.
My background crosses software engineering, applied AI, product development, and the daily mechanics of operating a business. That range is deliberate.
I was born and raised in Humboldt County and earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Cal Poly Humboldt. I still build from the North Coast, close to the consequences of the work.
Selected work / 2026
Systems with a job to do.
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Independent product / Operations
Pixta
Building and operating a working surface for photographers: galleries, contracts, bookings, invoices, and payments.
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Civic systems / Humboldt
Local systems
Earlier work included a live transit map and a campus interactive map built in and for Humboldt County.
Read the archiveWorking range
From first decisionto durable operation.
I am not a general-purpose agency. I work best on important systems where product judgment, technical depth, and operating follow-through have to live in one place.
Product & engineering
Turn a consequential problem into a product people can understand, use, and trust—from system design through the shipped interface.
Operations & reliability
Build the controls, evidence, and recovery paths that keep software useful after launch, when the edge cases become the actual work.
Distribution & learning
Connect the product to the market, instrument the loop, and let real behavior—not internal mythology—decide what deserves more effort.
Operating principles
A compact doctrine for consequential work.
The whole loop is the product.
Code without operations or distribution is an unfinished argument.
Evidence outranks narrative.
Observe the present system. Ship the smallest durable change. Verify the result.
Own the aftermath.
A release is not done at merge. Reliability, support, and market response belong in the same frame.
Keep the system legible.
Clear constraints and explicit tradeoffs compound faster than ornamental complexity.