Chan MengCM
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Chan

I architect AI agents, ship full-stack platforms end-to-end, and teach others to do the same.

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My own product · Founder & sole engineer · 2026 —

ArchCanvas

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A demonstration of the ArchCanvas studio: a brief becomes a dimensioned floor plan, which is then edited, checked and exported.
  1. A brief is typed in plain English, and a plan is commissioned for one credit.
  2. The design is drafted and checked, then drawn on the canvas.
  3. A room is selected and changed by saying what should be different.
  4. A room's width is nudged on a slider, and the plan is redrawn to match.
  5. The review's findings are pinned on the drawing, one card open.
  6. The upstairs storey is shown, and a rendering of the building appears.
  7. The drawing is exported — as an image, or to DXF for CAD.

Sequence shortened — a design really takes two to three minutes.

Describe a home in plain English and get a dimensioned floor plan — then change any room by saying what should be different.

Test briefs whose plan passed every check
26 / 26
Export formats: DXF and PDF for CAD, PNG and SVG
4
Tests on ArchLang, the open-source language underneath
4,338

GAVIGO · Founding Principal Engineer · 2025 — 26

GAVIGO IRE

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Product UI recreated in code; sequence shortened. Controlled measurements, not a production SLA.

Swipe to a game in a phone feed and it plays right in the scroll: an orchestrator warms the catalogue before the tap. GAVIGO takes part in Google for Startups and NVIDIA Inception.

Less application-level startup time, in the current proof stage
78%
Controlled startup-path comparison
4.45 → 1.00 s
To restore preserved AI state
~140 ms

CORDE · Field operations · New Zealand

CORDE Mobile

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The interface is a coded replica of the app. Every name and place shown is fictional.

An offline-first field app for CORDE's infrastructure crews: a job is logged on the phone with no signal, and syncs home when the signal returns.

Signal needed to complete a job or create a new one
0 bars
Tools in one app: logs, sync, map, groups and more
6
By CORDE's water and civil crews across Canterbury
In use

She Sharp · Senior Full Stack Engineer & Website Team Lead · 2025 — 26

She Sharp

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A volunteer-run women-in-STEM charity, moved off rented software onto a platform and a mailing list it owns.

Recipients on the first send from the new system, 0 failures
1,549
Pages on the platform that replaced the Webflow site
63
Agent skills a non-engineer can run
11

Whiri-AI · Independent commission · 2025 —

Tam-AI-Ti

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Interface recreated in code for this film. Demo account and figures are illustrative.

A te reo Māori and English AI coach for financial wellbeing, built on Te Whare Tapa Whā — the model is in the data, not painted on.

People in the research cohort that used it over four months
19
Bilingual journal entries
181
Voice coaching sessions
35

Open source

Tools developers use

ArchLang

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Floor plans as code: plain text in, a dimensioned drawing out. Change one number and the whole drawing follows.

The engine under ArchCanvas · 4,338 tests · MIT

echook

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Your AI coding agent calls you back: sounds, speech and a live status line for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.

39 events · 3 coding agents · MIT

a11y-loop

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Makes AI coding agents write accessible UI, audits it in a real browser, and lists what it could not check.

Claude Code skill + CLI · Playwright + axe-core · MIT

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What others say

  • Chan turns ambiguous founder-level direction into working systems and measurable proof — not just code.
    Saba GecgilSG

    Saba Gecgil

    Founder & CEO, GAVIGO

  • A solo developer who took on monumental tasks with exceptional technical expertise and problem-solving.
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    Paige Afanu

    CEO, Sanicle

  • Structured, engaging, practical — and genuinely invested in every learner's success. An outstanding AI educator.
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    Suliat Alaga

    Senior Frontend Engineer · TechNest Co-Founder

LinkedIn followers
6,502
GitHub stars
530+
Recommendations
27
Speaker, UN HQ
UN CSW 69

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