{"name":"Chris Johnston","github":"CJohnDesign","url":"https://cjohn.design","email":"chris@postscarcity.ai","place":"South Florida","role":"Founder and CEO, PostScarcity AI","tagline":"Agent trainer. I write the rules machines run on.","story":{"question":"Is your AI lazy?","questionSub":"Sitting there, waiting for you to give it a task?","questionSubShort":"Just waiting for a task?","payoff":["I train the agents","that do the typing."],"idleLabel":"Idle for","contributionIs":"A contribution is a commit, pull request, review or issue on GitHub.","feedTitle":"Latest from GitHub","feedNote":"Updated every few minutes. Private repo names stay private.","film":"Then I teach people to do it."},"facts":["Founder of PostScarcity AI","15+ years of design and software","2 solo hackathon wins","A fleet of agents doing real work every day"],"links":[{"label":"GitHub","href":"https://github.com/CJohnDesign"},{"label":"X","href":"https://x.com/cjohndesign"},{"label":"PostScarcity AI","href":"https://postscarcity.ai"}],"meet":["I train agents. I write the plain-text rules they run on, read what they ship, and correct them until the work holds up.","I sit with the person doing the work, watch what they open, and have a prototype running on their real systems by the end of the day. The spec is the conversation.","The goal is the same every time: ship faster today, and build the systems that compound tomorrow."],"now":{"title":"PostScarcity AI","line":"That's what I'm doing now. All of my work goes there.","button":"Go to PostScarcity AI","href":"https://postscarcity.ai"},"talks":[{"where":"South Florida PBS","title":"AI & You, August 2024","href":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZmO-HLDeE"},{"where":"Wynwood, Miami","title":"ElectroTech Summit 2025, host and moderator","href":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15gmnb9tY2w"},{"where":"Two-minute AI Tips","title":"Tip #5: SQL, in plain English","noThumb":true,"href":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS_6eKR0vAQ"}],"stages":["MusicTech Summit 2024","Agile International Conference 2024","Miami NFT Week 2022, 2023","NFT Nashville 2023","Crypto Connect 2023 to 2025","AI Uncorked, host 2023 to 2024"],"podcast":{"label":"Infinite Attraction podcast","href":"https://open.spotify.com/show/15Dq2N8mVujW9QPziIpGK1"},"wins":[{"when":"March 2020","event":"COVID-19 Global Hackathon. Solo, category winner.","name":"J.A.M., Join A Metronome","line":"One beat, shared across the internet, so musicians locked down in different homes could play together.","href":"https://devpost.com/software/jam-join-a-metronome"},{"when":"June 2025","event":"World's Largest Hackathon, Miami. Solo, local winner.","name":"resume-site.md","line":"An agent interviews you about your career out loud, then writes the instructions that build your resume site.","href":"https://devpost.com/software/resume-site-md"}],"road":[{"title":"PostScarcity AI, founder and CEO","line":"A fleet of agents, one per company. I design the systems and write the rules they run on."},{"title":"Product director","line":"Eight agile teams shipping custom software for venture-backed and pre-exit companies. I learned what a team of ten costs and what it ships."},{"title":"Designer and developer","line":"Scalable product systems, generative frameworks and creative development, built by hand."}],"education":[{"school":"MIT","line":"Applied Generative AI for Digital Transformation"},{"school":"Florida Atlantic University","line":"BFA in Visual Design, minor in Philosophy"}],"skills":[{"name":"Generative AI strategy","line":"What AI should do for your company, given your constraints."},{"name":"Multi-agent systems","line":"Coordinated agents running production work."},{"name":"Scalable product development","line":"Systems the client owns, not dependent on the builder."},{"name":"Creative system architecture","line":"Design and engineering together from the start."},{"name":"Human factors","line":"How people actually use systems, and AI shaped to it."},{"name":"Teaching by building","line":"At the keyboard, with people who have never written a line."},{"name":"Vibe coding","line":"Directing an agent in plain language, reading the result, shipping."}],"closing":"Who's training your agents?","contact":{"ctaButton":"Give me a task","title":"Give me a task.","lede":"Speaking, work, or anything else. It comes straight to me.","sentTitle":"On it.","sentLine":"Your task reaches my phone within 15 minutes, and I'll answer by email. I won't just sit here.","waitLabel":"Waiting on Chris for","seeWork":"See PostScarcity AI","watchTalk":"Watch me teach","backHome":"Back to the start"}}