About

ProdDraft builds production-grade starter kits and writes about the craft of building software. No templates with placeholder comments. No "add auth later" energy. Just clean, boring code that works at 2am during an incident.

The blog covers AI research, new tech, and the decisions behind the products. Paper breakdowns with code, tool reviews from actual usage, and occasional takes on what's actually worth paying attention to.

If you want boilerplates that ship with CI and structured logging, you're in the right place. If you want Medium listicles about why Kubernetes changed everything, you're not.

Who's behind this

Chad Martin — engineer, AI researcher, and the person who got tired of every FastAPI tutorial stopping at main.py. Building in public from an iMac in a room somewhere.

Reach me at chadmartin@proddraft.com.