AI builder · Founder · U.S. Veteran
Casey Rose
AI agents fail in real work. I build the checks that catch them before they reach people. Since May 2026 I have built and run Veteran Benefits GPS, a navigation tool for Veterans, with Claude Code agents working under a verification layer I designed.
- Building with AI
- Claude Code, agents, evals, and guardrails
- Shipping
- Next.js, TypeScript, Git, and end-to-end tests
- Before that
- Teacher, head coach, and state government
- Service
- Military Police team leader, Iraq 2011
Selected work
Two systems, built and running in 2026.
An AI agent system with a verification layer I designed
Every failure is logged with the check that caught it, repeated failures become rules, and every check has to prove it can fail before its pass counts.
- 1,155failures logged since July 8
- 72checks that test themselves
- 317guard self-tests at every start
Veteran Benefits GPS
A free, navigation-only guide that sends a Veteran or a family member to the exact official VA.gov page, form, and free help for where they are.
- 10benefit territories on one map
- 20KFacebook views in our first two weeks
- Nov 11public launch, 2026
Experience
Fifteen years of making hard systems easy to follow.
Each role carries a tag: Verified a document was read, Public record anyone can look it up, My word no record survives. Ask for the paper on anything here.
Founder Public record
- Designed and built a navigation-only web product in Next.js and TypeScript with a full end-to-end test suite; no accounts and no personal data by design.
- Set up the company: Illinois LLC, SAM.gov registration, books, and a launch path through counsel, trademark, and a closed beta.
- Run sponsor sales, press and Veteran-organization outreach, and eight social channels; Facebook reached 10,483 people by October 9, at $0.23 per site visit from ads.
Builder, AI agent system Verified
- Run a team of Claude Code agents that does the company's real work: building, research, outreach, bookkeeping, and a daily brief, with scheduled cloud agents running overnight.
- Logged 1,155 failures with the check that caught each one; turned repeated failures into 58 written rules and 72 self-testing checks.
- Learned Git, GitHub, Next.js and TypeScript from zero; 2,850+ commits since May 31, 2026.
Site Technician II Public record
- Daily operations, maintenance, and public-facing service for a state historic site, with coordination across IDNR Region 5.
Human Resources Associate Public record
- High-volume personnel transactions, benefits questions, and compliance-sensitive records in a state human-services facility.
Teacher and Head Women's Basketball Coach Public record
- Full-time teacher in all five districts, with my own classrooms and curriculum; rebuilt tests, quizzes, and syllabi with AI early, then taught colleagues the method.
- Head women's basketball coach through December 2022.
- Grew a three-day summer shootout at Marion from $10,000 to $25,000 in revenue and up to 90 teams. My word
- Sold three-tier sponsorships worth $7,500+ across about 20 local businesses. My word
- District Representative, IBCA All-State Selection Committee. Volunteer varsity assistant women's basketball coach at Harrisburg High School since 2024.
Earlier roles
- Sports Broadcaster, River Radio, 2022 to 2023.
- Work Ethics Instructor and Career Specialist, Man-Tra-Con workforce agency, 2017 to 2018: career-readiness workshops and client assessments.
- Assistant Women's Basketball Coach and Academic Advisor, John A. Logan College, 2015 to 2017, after a volunteer assistant season in 2014 to 2015.
- Veteran Affairs Student Worker, Southeastern Illinois College, 2012 to 2013: helped Veterans with VA education benefits paperwork, the start of everything above.
Skills
What I bring to a team.
Service
Military Police, Iraq 2011.
Team Leader, Military Police (31B) Verified
- Active duty for Operation New Dawn, May 2011 to January 2012; deployed to Kuwait and Iraq.
- Arabic-Iraqi rapport training, Defense Language Institute.
- Led team-level security operations; completed the full eight-year obligation.
Education
Five degrees and a business course.
M.A. Teaching Verified
M.S. Education, Sport Administration Verified
B.S. Sport Administration, minor in Coaching Verified
Associate of Arts and Associate of Science My word
Boots to Business, entrepreneurship training Public record
How I work
Find where people get stuck. Build the way through. Write down how it works.
That has been the job in every role: a basketball program with no sponsors, a state HR office, the VA benefits system, and now AI agents that cannot tell whether their own checks are real.
I do not have a computer science degree. I have a teaching license, a DD-214, and four months of building AI systems that have to prove their work every day. I automate so the work keeps going while I am with my wife and two daughters.
Contact
Let's talk.
Open to remote roles with travel. I answer the same day.