Cynthia Mengyuan Li
Case notes from building AI products inside large organizations.
Selected writing
Escalation by Design: Multi Agent Fact Checking with Policy Constraints
Git Commits to Social Posts: Shipping a Developer CLI Against Real Usage
From One API Call to a Production Agent
RAG in Practice: Where It Works, Where It Fails, and What to Use Instead
Discovery Frameworks and ROI Modeling for Procurement AI
Moving Failure Upstream for SWIFT Validation at Airwallex
Archive
Building a Self Improving AI Assistant from 10 Markdown Files
2026
Breaking Changes on a Deadline in Enterprise EDIFACT Integration
2025
The Semantic Layer in Modern Data Architecture
2025
Photo to Listing in 7 Seconds: Unit Economics and Emotional Design in Mobile AI
2025
Four Layers of Harm Mitigation in Enterprise AI
2025
Turning Federated Data Chaos into Controllable Decision Systems
2024
Circadian Science for Personalized Sleep Plans
2024
akaTask: From Ambiguous Parenting Pain Points to a Shipped AI Task Manager
2024
Mapping Cognitive Load to AI Feature Bets from Parent Interviews
2024