Clay Good

Founding Engineer at OpenSpec

Selected work

Hard boundaries.
Useful software.

I build products that replace vague promises with something concrete: an enforced permission, a physical stop, a cited report, or the right answer in seconds.

Independent tools

Small software. Real utility.

Focused products built to be fast, private, and useful without an account or a sales call.

Games and experiments

Strategy, reduced to its sharpest form.

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Essays

Long-form thinking on systems and software.

Everything Is a System25,097 words Ads in the Age of AI11,495 words Govern at the Source11,292 words Owning the Means of Prediction10,345 words Forward Deployed Engineering9,383 words Roll Your Own9,041 words The Kinetic Execution Firewall7,491 words