#Caleb Gilbert
Work that isn't tracked leaks value, so I build the coordination layer. At 21 that meant tracking 150 people and 100 trucks on a disaster-relief project. At Trustero it meant 3.5 years as the only engineer working both the ML and apps teams, seed through Series A. Now it means a fleet of agents that report to a self-hosted audit log.
In between: two products shipped solo — one paid and App-Store-approved in about two weeks, one that got better once I turned off the AI I'd built into it. Plus 23 countries, one van, and a compliance startup's worth of opinions about paper trails.
##timeline
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2026 the fleet
Agents on a self-hosted audit log, one workspace each. Same instinct as the trucks.
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2025–26 Pants
Short-form video stripped from Instagram, YouTube, Facebook. First commit to App Store in about two weeks.
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2025 Socialite
A personal CRM, shipped solo. Launched AI-heavy, read that users didn't want it, turned it off.
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2021–25 Trustero
3.5 years, seed to Series A. The only engineer on both the ML and apps teams. Audit trails as the product.
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2020 App Academy
COVID rerouted the plan. Junior instructor, then module assistant. Taught React.
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2018 disaster relief
150 people, 100 trucks. My tracking corrections recovered six figures leaking to mismanagement.