DAN MERCEDE
AI systems fail when nobody owns the workflow.
Operator and systems builder. I turn AI experiments into workflows teams can actually run.
Business implementation work runs through Orion Intelligence Agency.
Selected work
Built, running, and checked
Proctor
Behavioral regression testing for AI agents. It learns a per-agent contract from sample runs, re-checks it on every model or prompt change, and pauses consequential drift for human approval.
Verified live against a real UiPath tenant. Finalist, UiPath AgentHack 2026.
Project pageMaintained open sourcefailclosed
Merge admission control for AI-written code. It runs an LLM reviewer, then refuses to report MERGE_READY when the output is unparseable, schema-invalid, or self-contradictory.
MIT licensed, Python 3.9+, runs from a fresh clone.
Project pagePersonal productionProduction knowledge graph
Ingests branched LLM conversation history into a Neo4j knowledge graph with each branch's identity intact, kept advisory by design. The case covers what six months of measured use changed.
Selected talk at NODES 2026 by Neo4j, November 12, 2026.
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Need AI strategy or a workflow built?
Work with Orion Intelligence Agency on one workflow, from strategy to a system your team owns.
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Guides, essays, and open-source tools on governed AI and operator-led automation.
Read the guidesReliability and governance
Want evidence you can check?
Checkable claims first, then how the systems are built, labeled for what each piece is.
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Operating background, current work, and credentials you can check.
Read the backgroundUpcoming Speaking
NODES 2026 by Neo4j
November 12, 2026
11:30 AM PST ยท Data Intelligence Track
"Don't Flatten the Tree: Ingesting Branched Conversations into a Knowledge Graph"
Selected speaker at Neo4j's global developer conference: ingesting branched LLM conversation history into a production knowledge graph, with the patterns that keep it idempotent and re-runnable.
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