# Drew Littrell

> Product architecture and systems design for teams whose product has outgrown its structure.

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## Start here

- [Homepage](https://drewlittrell.com/index.md): Overview of Drew's current role, background, selected work, writing, and contact information.
- [Work](https://drewlittrell.com/work.md): Selected case studies and client timeline.
- [Writing](https://drewlittrell.com/writing.md): Essays on product systems, AI, institutions, and coordination.
- [Services](https://drewlittrell.com/services.md): Product architecture, systems design, information architecture, and fractional product leadership offerings.
- [Agent and developer access](https://drewlittrell.com/developers.md): When to use the public MCP, Markdown, OpenAPI, and discovery interfaces.
- [Privacy](https://drewlittrell.com/privacy.md): How the site handles analytics, requests, authentication, uploads, and messages.
- [Contact](https://drewlittrell.com/index.md#contact): Preferred contact path for consulting, advisory, and collaboration inquiries.

## Selected work

- [Doorpass](https://drewlittrell.com/work/doorpass.md): Turning a founder's smart-lock idea into a trust system for real estate access.
- [Pearson Futures](https://drewlittrell.com/work/pearson.md): Helping Pearson turn student uncertainty into a platform students could use, partners could join, and the company could keep building.
- [Simile](https://drewlittrell.com/work/simile.md): A case study on a tool I built to keep product decisions from getting lost between design and code - the judgment that shaped it, and how it held up on a real client engagement.
- [Rēkon](https://drewlittrell.com/work/rekon.md): A case study on a tool I built so a codebase keeps its purpose through any rewrite, the judgment that shaped it, and how it holds up in daily use. It's the ground-up rebuild of codebase-intel, the tool I ran across about a dozen repos over the past year.
- [Galaxy G1 Trading Interface](https://drewlittrell.com/work/galaxy.md): Designing a dense institutional trading interface without hiding the work traders need to do.
- [Adobe Lightroom.com](https://drewlittrell.com/work/lightroom.md): Why a strong product site wasn't converting, and the redesign that came out of the diagnosis.

## Selected writing

- [The Transition Is Not the Destination](https://drewlittrell.com/writing/the-transition-is-not-the-destination.md): AI is a general-purpose coordination technology. When coordination becomes cheap, the structures built around expensive coordination begin to wobble.
- [What AI Makes Buildable](https://drewlittrell.com/writing/what-ai-makes-buildable.md): Cheap intelligence does not just automate tasks. It changes which organizations and systems are feasible.
- [A Future Worth Wanting](https://drewlittrell.com/writing/a-future-worth-wanting.md): The hopeful vision for the AI age is not mass idleness or elite abundance. It is a society with more dignity, more ownership, more time, and more room for human beings to be human.

## Machine-readable resources

- [Robots.txt](https://drewlittrell.com/robots.txt): Crawl and content-use preferences, including Content Signals.
- [Sitemap](https://drewlittrell.com/sitemap-index.xml): Sitemap index for public routes.
- [RSS feed](https://drewlittrell.com/rss.xml): Feed of essays and writing.
- [API catalog](https://drewlittrell.com/.well-known/api-catalog): RFC 9727 Linkset catalog for the site's public interfaces.
- [OpenAPI description](https://drewlittrell.com/openapi.json): Typed OpenAPI 3.1 description of the public HTTP operations and errors.
- [MCP server](https://drewlittrell.com/mcp): Read-only Model Context Protocol server over Streamable HTTP; connect with an MCP client rather than an ordinary GET.
- [Markdown API](https://drewlittrell.com/api/markdown?path=/): Compatibility endpoint for retrieving a public page as Markdown by path.

## External profiles

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlittrell): Drew Littrell's LinkedIn profile.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/drewlittrell): Drew Littrell's GitHub profile.