Proof, not promises

Case Studies & Engineering Notes

Real, verifiable builds and honest explainers on where AI actually helps in software delivery — including the enterprise work still under NDA.

Workflow illustration showing category and area inputs, candidate comparison and evidence-led research prompts; not a screenshot

Local Competitor Explorer: A Shortlist, Not a Guess

A focused workspace for discovering nearby businesses, comparing available listing evidence and deciding what to investigate next. Try fictional examples immediately; live Google Places search requires operator configuration and private access.

Illustration of a database and a spreadsheet connected through a central hub with an approval shield; not a screenshot

Auto Middleware: Connect Existing Systems With a Sentence

An open-source middleware that turns a plain-language rule into a validated integration workflow across MySQL, Google Sheets and webhooks. The model helps at design time only; every run is deterministic, and writes wait for approval until you trust them.

Illustration of a robot sending AI-written replies to WhatsApp; not a screenshot

WhatsApp AI Bot: Auto-Replies Written by a Language Model

An experimental, open-source bot that answers direct WhatsApp messages with a language model. It was built to explore the pattern on a spare number before committing to the official WhatsApp Business Platform.

MCP Trends weekly ranking page showing rising MCP repositories with star gains and New markers

MCP Trends: Which MCP Repositories Are Rising?

A live, crawlable ranking of Model Context Protocol servers and clients on GitHub, ordered by stars gained over a day, a week or a month rather than by total popularity.

ZaidanLab engineering note on marketplace shipping integration

Shipping Labels for a Multi-Vendor Marketplace

This is a pattern explainer, not a single client story. It covers what goes wrong when a marketplace with many sellers connects to a courier aggregator API for rates, bookings and labels.

ZaidanLab engineering note on zero-downtime deployments

Zero-Downtime Deployments for Commerce Platforms

This is a pattern explainer, not a single client story. It covers how a commerce platform can ship without a maintenance window, and what usually breaks first.

ZaidanLab engineering note on commerce performance tuning

Fixing Slow Commerce Storefronts on Shared Storage

This is a pattern explainer, not a single client story. It covers the checks that usually find the real cause of slowness when application code lives on network storage.

Workflow diagram connecting a content studio, practice questions and answer review

ExamDesk: From Question Authoring to Practice Review

An interactive learning showcase connecting editable study material, a question bank, timed practice and answer explanations. Changes stay in your browser.

Workflow diagram connecting a fictional restaurant ticket, guest folio and shift report

FolioFlow: From Restaurant Ticket to Room Folio

An original interactive operations prototype linking fictional restaurant orders, kitchen tickets, guest balances, stock and shift reports. No real payments or hotel data.

Original illustration of a fictional hotel room board connected to a sample restaurant ticket, not a screenshot or customer system

StayOS: A Hotel-to-Restaurant Workflow Prototype

Explore an independent hospitality UI/UX concept connecting fictional room reservations, arrivals, housekeeping and restaurant tickets. No live hotel or payments.

Diagram of a website URL feeding SEO and GEO page-signal checks

GEO & SEO Page Audit: From URL to Actionable Checks

A working page-level audit tool that explains its scoring rules. Enter a public URL to inspect initial HTML and review SEO and GEO structure signals; no ranking or AI-citation promises.

Workflow illustration of one SAMPLE mark applied to three fictional PDFs and confirmed in a batch; not an app screenshot or certified signature

Bulk Sign: One Placement Across Multiple PDFs

A browser-only portfolio prototype for positioning a visual mark on the last page of several PDFs, confirming the batch and exporting one ZIP. Not a certified digital signature service.

Actual ClientOS demo screenshot showing fictional projects, proposal values and approval queues

ClientOS: From Proposal to Client Sign-Off

One connected workspace for a service team and its clients. Explore the complete proposal-to-delivery journey in a working browser demo — with fictional data, not a claimed client engagement.

Workflow illustration of catalog matching, human review and quotation export; not an application screenshot

ZaidanLab Quotes: From Product Request to Reviewed Quotation

An interactive business workflow demo that connects requested items, catalog data, pricing and human approval — without inventing prices or pretending to be a production SaaS.

Illustration of Kang Ojol pickup and drop-off routes, not a screenshot

Kang Ojol: Prototyping a Delivery App in the Browser

Try the customer and driver sides of a delivery workflow with pickup and drop-off locations, maps and order stages — clearly labeled as a demo, not a real courier network.

Illustration of a CV, job listing and AI feedback, not a screenshot

CV Job Matcher: Compare a CV Against a Real Listing

A separate job-search experiment: find an actual vacancy, compare its description against your CV, and get feedback specific to that listing — not a generic resume score.

JobAI Web app icon featuring a robot and briefcase

JobAI Web: One Search Across Public Job Feeds

A live browser-based job discovery app that searches real listings from multiple public sources, shows where each job came from, and sends applicants to the original listing.

Kalori AI — Calorie & Fasting app

Kalori AI: An AI Nutrition Assistant on Google Play

Most calorie trackers fail the moment logging becomes a chore. Kalori AI was built to remove that friction, and to prove out an AI-accelerated build process end to end.

AI Smart Job Finder app

AI Smart Job Finder: AI-Assisted Career Search

AI Smart Job Finder explores AI-assisted career search in a mobile product published on Google Play, separate from ZaidanLab's browser-based job tools.

Magento Platform Engineering

How AI Personalization Gets Built Into Enterprise Commerce Platforms

This is a pattern explainer, not a single client story — client names are under NDA — describing how AI personalization work actually gets built into large-scale commerce platforms.

OKX Pulse dashboard

OKX Pulse: A Real-Time Market Signal Dashboard

A personal trading dashboard built to test a market hypothesis rigorously without risking capital — not a signal-selling product, and it never places a real order.

Ecommerce platform engineering

Automating Ecommerce Operations at Scale

This is a pattern explainer, not a single client story — the business names are confidential — describing real automation work across active enterprise ecommerce engagements.

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