[ ardchavit (bom) pattanapaisal · portfolio ’26 ]
currently turning writer’s block into the past tense at paralume.
bangkok → st. louis · 7M+ views · 50+ countries · ardchavit “bom” pattanapaisal
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i started an instagram account about ai from my bedroom. eighteen months later it had 7 million views and followers in 50+ countries. the internet is a small place when you have something to say.
we talked to 160+ writers. the pattern was loud: they don't fail at words, they fail at structure. Paralume gives writers a thinking-shaped scaffold — premise, tension, payoff — before they touch a sentence.
at 180DC: a 5-OEM ESG compliance maturity assessment for World Wide Technology — delivered on stage at HQ — and a parallel engagement with Lewis & Clark Capital evaluating data warehouse migration plus an AI-assisted underwriting workflow, leading a team of six.
Bom's Bussin Boba was the operator origin story: real unit economics — COGS, packaging, labor, overhead — pricing tested against demand, an on-the-job training program for thirty-something teammates, and proceeds routed to causes i cared about.
an agentic legal co-counsel, a basketball coach that watches your game tape, and a football club sim in a single file. specs first, shipped second — each one written to find out whether the idea survives contact with a real user.
Parley listens to a live legal negotiation, pulls the opposing side's claims apart, and answers each one with grounded evidence — hybrid vector + keyword retrieval over the private case file, fused by reciprocal rank and reranked by an LLM, with live case-law search alongside it. Written spec first: a PRD, a versioned stack amendment, and an explicit out-of-scope list.
Playback turns phone footage of a pickup game into a coaching session. An agent orchestrator runs nine tools end to end — ingest, person detection, player identification, zone heatmaps, moment detection, tactical vision, synthesized coach voice — and both halves of the team built against one frozen JSON contract so frontend and backend could land independently.
Soccer Manager Lite is a full club simulator with no build step and no dependencies — match engine, drag-and-drop formations, a transfer market with AI-run rival clubs, gacha squad-building, wage and window rules, season rollover, and local saves. Fourteen thousand lines that open by double-clicking a file.
AI Academic Automation Tool · $1,250 prize
Shopee global expansion strategy
Outstanding Learner Award
i’m a better operator because i make better bubble tea, lift heavier, and cook with people i love.
also: fluent in english (IELTS 8.0) and native thai. tableau, excel, sql, python, financial modeling, light ml — but you’re here for the stories, not the stack.
BANGKOK · KITCHEN
making it taught me to count — real cogs, real labor, real margins.
DAILY · DISCIPLINE
the only meeting i never skip.
OFF THE CLOCK
the right kind of distraction. saturday mornings on the green.
