Skip to content

Agents · Foundry · AI @ Microsoft

Jacob Centner

I work with strategic customers and product teams on agents, Foundry, and AI at Microsoft, building AI systems that survive production. I write a little about what holds up, what breaks, and personal projects.

See the WorkAbout Me

Featured Work

What I'm Building

TSGBuilder

Multi-agent pipeline that writes troubleshooting guides for Azure AI support engineers.

70–80% reduction in guide-authoring time; rolling out across Microsoft support engineering.

Multi-AgentPythonAzure AIMicrosoft Foundry

Read case study →

Agentic Quartz

An AI assistant for individual real-estate agents that works across the tools where a deal already lives.

Per-cycle cost cut from ~$0.10 to under $0.01 with a custom multi-tier memory system. In private beta with working agents.

TypeScriptMulti-AgentAgent SafetySemantic Search

Read case study →

WyoClear

Wyoming legislature tracker — find legislators, track bills, see votes.

Hundreds of active users, profitable on donations, shipped in ~30 hours.

PythonAI AgentsCivic TechFull Stack

Read case study →

Copilot Autonomous Template

Open-source workflow that makes GitHub Copilot build coherently across long autonomous sessions.

v1.0.0 shipped — hook-verified stage machine, 160 hook tests, 10 ADRs. Used to build WyoClear, Sentinel, and this site.

GitHub CopilotAutonomous AgentsDeveloper ToolsOpen Source

Read case study →

All projects →

Writing

Recent Posts

Someone Sold the Loading Spinner

kickbacks.ai turned the Claude Code spinner into an ad auction, and a whole economy assembled itself around it in about a day. Notes on the strangest new market in software, and the thing I'm building on top of it.

Giving an Agent Your Inbox: A Permission Model That Isn't a Prompt

I gave an AI agent access to a realtor's live inbox, calendar, and files. The boundaries that make that sane live in code and OAuth scopes, not in a sentence the model is asked to respect.

Eight Years of Teaching a Dinosaur to Jump

Three rebuilds of the same toy RL problem, eight years apart — and what the fastest, smartest, AI-built one taught me about trusting my own numbers.

All posts →

About

About Me

I work with strategic customers and product teams on agents, Foundry, and AI at Microsoft. That gives me a front-row seat to what enterprise AI gets right, where it gets weird, and what breaks once real users are in the loop.

Outside work, I'm building and cofounding small AI products, running experiments, and writing about what survives contact with production. Sometimes I make jokes at the machinery's expense.

Want to chat about tech, a project, or a role? Reach out.

Read more →