Hal Dick

I am a product builder driven by curiosity. I have a knack for distilling complex projects into practical plans and collaborating with engineering teams. I've built products and managed technical projects for a range of clients, including private companies, nonprofit organizations, artists, and government agencies.

I'm currently building Flavorful, an app that uses AI to help home cooks create fresh variations on their favorite recipes. More generally, I'm interested in ways AI can help enhance (but not replace) human creativity, and excited about how AI can enable a much broader set of people to build complex software.

I am always interested in meeting people with similar interests or discussing opportunities where I can help bring new ideas to life. You can contact me by emailing hello (at) haldick.com, or find me on Linkedin.

I am based in Tucson, Arizona.

• Digital Product Strategy: Defining product vision, aligning product strategy with business goals, and creating roadmaps that prioritize learning and measurable success.
• Prototyping & MVP Development: Building and iterating on minimum viable products that test market fit and provide early value.
• AI Strategy: Identifying practical applications of AI to enable new kinds of user experiences.
• Technology in Physical Spaces: Designing and integrating digital products into physical environments, including digital signage and immersive experiences that blend digital innovation with the physical world.
• Fractional Product Leadership: Providing part-time or interim product leadership for organizations seeking support with strategy, execution, and/or team development.

• WPA Guide to New York City: In 1939, the Federal Writers’ Project published the New York City Guide, a detailed portrait of the city’s attractions, culture, and history. I created this site to let people read the guide’s depiction of landmarks, neighborhoods, and other destinations around their current location.
• IxNConnect: While working at Intersection I launched a new communication platform, now used by over a dozen cities, transit agencies, and private destinations to deliver real-time, localized information to the public across Intersection’s nationwide network of digital signage.
• Edward M. Kennedy Institute Senate Immersion Module: I led the technical development of this two-hour interactive experience in which 100 visiting student “senators” work together to write and pass a bill in a digitally-enhanced replica of the US Senate chamber. This project was featured in The Economist, which dryly praised it by writing "a mock senate for kids works better than the real thing."