RS monogramRussell Schmidt
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I am a product executive and recovering developer that loves to build. Interests include energy and sustainability, AI, bringing projects to life, and your problems. I am stubbornly optimistic about the future.

Recent Work

Nimra.ai project showcase

Nimra.ai

Nimra

AI RFP, RFI, and grant response tool that extracts requirements, builds compliance checklists, and drafts responses from a company's own materials.

InControl project showcase

InControl

InCharge Energy, Inc

InCharge Energy's InControl Charge Maintenance & Management System (CMMS), pioneering charger management software (CMS) for the electric vehicle charging industry

EVgo Driver Apps project showcase

EVgo Driver Apps

EVgo

Electric vehicle driver apps for iOS and Android for one of the largest charging networks in North America

Latest Writing

From Gachi to Tuki: Turning Room Reactions Into Product Priorities

8/28/2026

How GoGachi.app and Tuki fit together in my build-in-public stack: one captures fast desirability signal, the other turns that signal into ranked, dependency-aware product planning.

Tuki: Prioritization Without Gantt Chart Theater

8/27/2026

How a nights-and-weekends internal beta became a tool for stacked ranking product work, exposing dependencies, and preserving the business case behind priorities.

Building Gachi Over a Weekend: Fast Feature Voting for the Room

8/26/2026

Why I built GoGachi.app as a lightweight way to capture whether a feature actually wows a sales team, without buying an expensive platform for a narrow meeting job.

Load Management Is Not a Hack

8/25/2026

Dynamic load management is often treated as a workaround for weak infrastructure. In practice, it is a serious product and grid strategy for turning scarce capacity into useful work.

What Carnegie Mellon's Agentic AI Course Changed About Nimra.ai

8/24/2026

Refining Nimra.ai through Carnegie Mellon's Agentic AI course pushed me from a prompt-first product toward a more deliberate workflow built around retrieval, review, and human control.