Michael Helms
Customer Education & Enablement · AI-Native Builder · Nashville

I build what
I enable.

Fifteen-plus years designing certification and enablement programs at scale across Meta, Google, and Apple — and, on the side, shipping AI-native products solo on the Claude API. The work below is that second half: things I've architected and built end to end, not just taught.

Enable

Owned a learning platform with 27,000+ active users. Led teams up to 10. Programs shipped in 10+ languages.

Build

Ships production AI tools solo. Sigil — an adaptive certification platform — built end to end in a single weekend on the Claude API.

Selected Work

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Certification · SaaS

Sigil

Adaptive certification that builds and grades itself.

An adaptive certification platform that generates assessments and adjusts them to each candidate in real time — built solo over a single weekend on the Claude API, from data model to grading logic to interface.

What it provesI can architect and ship the exact category of product I'd be enabling — closing the usual gap between someone who teaches a platform and someone who could have built it.

Claude APIPython / TypeScript
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Interactive Learning · Claude API

You Are the API

A simulation that teaches APIs by making you one.

You play the gateway itself — checking each request's key against its badge, stamping honest status codes, and living with the consequences of every call. An in-experience coach grades free-text answers live on the Claude API, with a scripted fallback and xAPI throughout; three chapters, built solo.

What it provesBoth halves of my work in a single build — rigorous, measurable learning design and hands-on AI product engineering — the exact intersection I operate in.

React / TypeScriptClaude APIxAPI
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Learning · Platform

DM Academy

AI coaching for real skill development.

An AI-coached skill-development platform (2026) that applies conversational AI to structured, ongoing practice — the learning domain I've specialized in for over a decade, rebuilt around what AI coaching now makes possible.

What it provesSustained product development, not a one-off — and it puts my enablement expertise and my building in the same place.

React Native / ExpoTypeScriptSQLite (offline-first)LLM content pipeline
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Pipeline · Creative AI

Dungeons & Drawings

Turns tabletop sessions into finished comic pages, automatically.

A multi-stage pipeline that takes a raw D&D session recording and produces illustrated comic pages: Whisper for transcription, an LLM for story generation, a custom Python LayoutDirector for composition across seven layout templates, and ComfyUI for image generation — running locally, end to end.

What it provesI can design and orchestrate a real pipeline across the modern AI stack — transcription, generation, layout logic, image models — not just write prompts. Systems thinking on a genuinely hard multi-model problem.

WhisperLLMPythonComfyUI
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Background

15+ yrs
MetaGoogleAppleBuilt TechnologiesLearnUp
27,000+
Active users on a platform I owned at Meta
10,000+
Users in a partner program, 10+ languages
4.7/5
Program satisfaction rating
5,000
Largest live audience spoken to

Reality Labs, enablement & certification leadership.

Let's talk.

Open to remote or relocation. Nashville-based.