Unfinished work can still be instructive.
These projects were not taken through to long-term execution, but each clarified something useful about feasibility, operating burden, or product-market fit.
Winter 2018
Project Upcycle
A fundraising concept for Enactus built around California CRV collection economics. The plan was financially plausible, but the operational burden was too high for a student organization to run cleanly.
What carried forward: Feasible models still fail when labor intensity and execution overhead are underestimated.
Open artifactFall 2018
Solutions for beruby
An early case competition proposing a subscription-style retention strategy for a cashback rewards company. The business model shift was ambitious, but it also required a stronger change in user behavior than the market probably supported.
What carried forward: Strategy ideas need to be judged not just on elegance, but on how much user and market behavior they ask you to rewrite.
Open slides2018 - 2020
Multiple QR-Code Verification Method
A security concept for multi-step QR-based verification intended for lower-cost authentication flows. It never moved past the grant-seeking stage, but the idea came from a real concern about how weaker transaction environments handle identity and trust.
What carried forward: Security ideas become more interesting when they can widen access rather than only raise technical sophistication.
What the archive shows
Strong ideas still need workable execution.
These projects remain useful because they show how I think about systems, incentives, feasibility, and the gap between an interesting concept and something that can actually be sustained.