A small site about a good friend

Meet Adam.

Senior product mind at Google. Crate-digging DJ. Black Rock regular. The kind of friend who actually picks up the phone.

Builds at Google
Spins as Bigfoot
Heads to the playa
Lives in NYC

Adam is the kind of person it's worth knowing.

By day he's the sole product manager on a 30-engineer team at Google, building the systems that catch Gemini and AI Search in the act of hallucinating and ground them in things you can actually verify. Twenty years before that, he shipped consumer products that hundreds of millions of people have touched — Amazon Appstore, Marriott Homes & Villas, myWalgreens, U.S. Bank, the Albertsons ↔ Google grocery partnership.

By night he's Bigfoot, two decades into crate-digging and live sets across New York. And once a year he disappears into the desert with the rest of the Burning Man family.

Originally from Sydney. Currently in New York. Endlessly curious about the parts of life that don't fit on a roadmap.

Twenty years of shipping, measured.

A career spent moving metrics that matter — model factuality, customer growth, revenue. Selected highlights.

Gemini factuality
50% drop
Ungrounded AI responses, on the platform Adam's team owns at Google.
Platform latency
6× faster
Factuality eval pipeline went from 120s to under 20s.
myWalgreens revenue
$1B+
Attributed to the AI wellness companion Adam led.
Active users
105M
myWalgreens loyalty members served.
Loyalty reach
147M
Marriott Bonvoy members on Homes & Villas.
Properties scaled
140K+
Listings on Marriott Homes & Villas at launch.
Albertsons footprint
2,250+ stores
Digital transformation, plus the Google partnership.
Amazon Appstore
200 countries
Scaled the mobile marketplace for Kindle Fire globally.
U.S. Bank mobile
#2 nationally
Launched a 5-star rated app in under 8 months.

The dial he is turning.

Across Gemini and AI Search, Adam's team measures and reduces the share of model responses that aren't grounded in verifiable evidence. Here is the number that defines the role.

Ungrounded answers are now half what they were.

The dial on the right shows the percentage of Gemini & AI Search responses that fail factuality grounding checks — the number Adam's team has been bending downward, response by response.

Metric: ungrounded-response rate · lower is better

15% UNGROUNDED DOWN FROM 30%
Before After

From Sydney IT student to Gemini factuality lead.

Two decades, four sectors, one through-line: making products that earn their users' trust.

Big Tech Consulting & Strategy Financial Services Retail / Hospitality (via Sapient) AI Infrastructure

The whole human.

Adam's complexity is the point. The same instinct shows up in every column.

The Builder

AI products that don't lie.

Sole PM on Google's factuality agent infrastructure for Gemini and AI Search. Twenty years before that — Amazon, Marriott, Walgreens, Albertsons, U.S. Bank — shipping things that actually launch.

The DJ

Bigfoot, on the decks.

Two decades of crate digging and live sets across New York. The same product instinct, but compressed into 120 BPM and a room you can feel breathing.

The Burner

Black Rock regular.

Goes to the playa for the part of life that doesn't fit on a roadmap. Returns with a slightly better sense of what "user delight" actually means.