2025 · side venture · sold to a client
Compoze
A one-person AI solutions company I built and ran alongside TikTok. I handled the customer conversations, the product, the delivery, and the sale.
Compoze sold document-grounded assistants to businesses. One of its own clients bought the company outright at the end of 2025. The client and financial terms remain private.
role
Sole founder, builder, and seller
delivery
Six stages from discovery to training
outcome
Sold to one of its clients in 2025
// The product
One product, configured per customer.
The core was a retrieval-augmented assistant built with LlamaIndex and FastAPI, managed vector indexing on LlamaCloud, and a Next.js chat frontend. A pluggable tool layer supported retrieval, code execution, document generation, image generation, web search, and OpenAPI actions.
The model and embedding layer used an OpenAI-compatible interface. A customer could move between hosted and private endpoints through configuration rather than a product rewrite.
compoze / system
Fly.io · Singapore
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model endpoint = environment configuration
// The work around the product
The build was only one stage.
I turned delivery into a six-stage engagement and owned each part, from the first scoping call through customer training.
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Discovery and analysis
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Knowledge engineering
03
Model selection
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Integration and development
05
Testing and refinement
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Deployment and training