Broken Branch — a dev studio by Ben Schippers
Interactive physics sims. AI tools. Production apps. Weird little explorables that don't belong on a resume. Microsoft is one side of the work — enterprise Copilot, at scale. This is the other side. Both real.
The work I care about most — physics sims, AI tools, and products I actually ship.
Everything below is built with Claude as the pair. How that works, in the writing.
Interactive quantum-biology explorable. Ten physics engines — RK4, Monte Carlo, Berry phase, stochastic resonance, energy budget — test seven hypotheses from Bandyopadhyay et al. (2020, 2022) directly in the browser. 86.3% meta-robustness; H2 falsified; H7 unvalidated at p=0.179. Pure HTML/CSS/JS, zero dependencies, MIT-licensed. Not peer-reviewed research — a tool for sharpening questions.
AI-powered gameplay narrative engine. Desktop app (Tauri + FastAPI) captures screenshots during play, classifies with Claude Vision, and generates chronicles in preset or custom storyteller voices — survivor journals, war dispatches, colony epics, built from your actual runs. Four-phase witnessing system (chronicle → fact store → response pool → retrospective). Nine game presets, seven narrators, three visual themes. Stripe billing live; local-first with optional cloud hosting and managed AI tiers.
Visit Site →A road trip companion with three AI-narrated raccoon characters — Scout, Skates, and Macey — who react to your drive in real time. GPS-triggered storytelling, automatic day-to-spooky mode shift at sunset, Spotify integration, character-voiced error states. Companionship on the road, not audio-Wikipedia. Expo + Supabase mobile app; web demo live at roadtripper.ai.
Visit Site →AI-powered household inventory. Snap a photo, speak, scan a receipt, scan a barcode, or point a live camera — Claude Vision identifies items, tracks expiration dates with FIFO rotation, suggests recipes from what's in the fridge, and lets families collaborate on shared shelves. Android app plus web dashboard on Supabase.
Open-source MCP server that turns Claude into a full job-search partner. Knows your career history, tailors every resume and cover letter, tracks applications end-to-end, and preps you for every interview. Ships with a local web dashboard: pipeline kanban, KB overview, funnel analytics. The tool I built for myself during a 10-month job search — now public.
View Source →A web-based workshop for dimensions. Hub plus five rooms — Unit Space, Spatial, Fractal, Infinite, Negative — each a different flavor of what "dimension" can mean. Rooms 1 and 2 live: hypercubes from 3D to 6D, projections, slicing, live face-count panels. Every configuration is a URL-hash-shareable link.
Enter the Workshop →AI-powered physical product design from idea to shop-ready plans. Describe what you want to build, and Claude generates a full spec—cut lists, shopping lists, exploded views, and 3D-printable connectors that replace traditional joinery. Parametric geometry engine, OpenSCAD exports, and a brainstorm mode that suggests builds from your existing material stock.
Visit Site →Gamified achievement platform for adults. Badge progression, troop management, photo-verified requirements, and Stripe-powered subscriptions. Full-stack production app with 19 database tables.
Visit Site →Prototype mutual benefit platform concept for tech workers. Pooled fund model with simulated risk modeling, employer-cap diversification, and a two-sided marketplace. Built the pricing engine, benefit calculator, and simulated claims workflow. Not a licensed financial product.
Visit Site →Collaborative knowledge system where AI doesn't just read—it maintains, labels, and improves the knowledge base. Natural language intent detection, auto-tagging, confidence scoring, and real-time orchestration view.
📷 View ScreenshotDistraction-resistant desktop environment. Full-screen CRT terminal aesthetic with Pomodoro integration, focus-gated media, and embedded productivity tools.
Behind the Screens — thoughts on AI, product, and building in public
203 applications. 76 rejections. 34 ghosts. 2,710 GitHub contributions. 6 live products. A data-driven cross-section of 10 months in the 2025-2026 tech market — the funnel, the ghosts, what actually worked, and the parallel build sprint that changed the trajectory.
Read the Data Story →Self-sustaining AI infrastructure for global public good. A framework for converting idle compute capacity into verified outcomes through UN outcome-based funding. Whitepaper, DRAFT v2.0.
Read the Paper →The $1K Experiment Part 2: What happens when the framework compounds. 5.5 hours to working MVP. 2,031 lines became 106,000. Shipping is addictive—here's the warning label.
Read on LinkedIn →Could a senior PM with product clarity but no coding background actually build and ship real software? 31 days, 215 commits, 38K lines of TypeScript. The 64/33/3 collaboration model that made it work.
Read on LinkedIn →Research suggests only 5% of AI pilots deliver measurable impact. The early warning system hiding in your support tickets—and the metrics that predict failure before day 90.
Read on LinkedIn →Experimental projects and works in progress
Interactive exploration of mindfulness and mechanics. Blending hard science with contemplative practice.
Multi-platform simulation game. More details coming soon.
Location-based ASCII survival simulation. Uses real geography for procedural world generation.
Randonautica-inspired exploration experiment. Quantum entropy from ANU's RNG scattered across a map, statistical anomaly detection to find clusters, and OpenStreetMap verification to confirm you can actually walk there. An excuse to stitch together a dozen APIs and see what breaks.
Visit Site →Ten years at Microsoft, a 10-month gap where shipping in public became the job, and back at Microsoft since March 2026. The numbers, the case study, and the CV live below for anyone who wants them.
Senior Program Manager, AI Platforms & Enterprise Operations
Across 5 years, spanning Copilot · Graph · Windows 365 · Teams Devices
Owned a portfolio of internal platforms across 8 product lines—signal systems, routing intelligence, self-service tools, and quality measurement. The infrastructure that turned customer friction into engineering action.
Microsoft Premier Support
Built Premier Engineering from a 3-person pilot to 150 agents handling 60K incidents/year.
Managed partner programs spanning 1,000+ Office 365 migrations across 12 global partners.
B.S. Interdisciplinary Science & Technology — University of Arizona
Former dendrochronologist. Yes, tree rings. It's where the domain name comes from.
Led the cross-functional effort to build enterprise AI adoption intelligence across multiple product lines. Created the signal-to-engineering pipeline that identified 76 blockers, unblocked 7,380 users, and contributed to 94,000 seats added.
A major enterprise AI rollout was accelerating across multiple product lines with no shared visibility into adoption patterns. Customers were hitting adoption walls that no single team could see. I assembled a cross-functional team, deployed real-time case analytics, and built the feedback loop that turned support signal into engineering priorities. The framework created a sustainable system for surfacing and resolving adoption blockers across the enterprise AI ecosystem.
If something here sparked an idea — or you want to trade notes on building weird things with Claude — reach out.
Atlanta, GA
Read from the center out. Thicker rings = growth years.
Former dendrochronologist. The domain name had to mean something.
