What Gordon built and maintains
Built and shipped the public web product and iOS app while carrying the retrieval and guardrail architecture across both live surfaces.
Designed the product experience to feel trustworthy to an audience that is appropriately skeptical of generic AI tools.
Worked through the domain specific retrieval and content handling challenges that make LDS focused AI different from general assistants.
What was hard
Religious communities have high expectations for accuracy and low tolerance for hallucination in sensitive content areas.
Cross platform consistency requires a product architecture that does not fragment the experience across web and mobile.
Guardrails have to be real constraints, not just policy statements, which requires real engineering decisions.