2026 Sept Meetup

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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: Get involved: 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