2026 Sept Meetup

Presentation: A product leader, not an engineer, built a live margin system for a Direct-to-Consumer brand that lacked visibility into the true per-order profit after discounts, shipping, third-party logistics, and ad spend. This talk walks through the build end-to-end: defining the problem in Claude Cowork with the stakeholder, developing in Claude Code through a GitHub repo that auto-deploys to a VPS, front-end in Claude Design, and n8n running the data pipeline in production. The honest throughline: how far one product person can carry a real system, and where the limits are. Bio: Craig Calder brings 20 years of senior product management leadership, from startups to eBay and New Relic. He now runs an AI implementation practice for product leadership and works hands-on with the production AI stack: LLMs, agentic systems, and knowledge graphs. Schedule: 5:00 - 5:30: Snacks and networking 5:30 - 6:30: Presentations 6:30 - 7:00: Wrap up and networking Get involved: Present your work at a future event: Email us at [contact removed] to discuss sharing your project or insights Provide feedback: Help shape our community by sharing your ideas and suggestions Sponsor an event: Contact us to discuss partnership opportunities For more information and to join our community, visit portlandai.engineer Thank you to our amazing sponsors Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) Silicon Florist AlteredCraft O'Reilly North Bank Innovations