Projects & News

What's been built recently

For longer-form writing, see the blog. Open-source work is on GitHub. This page is the short list of announcements.

Open source

The same agent implemented across multiple agent frameworks, to show the practical differences between them.

Evolving a naive tool-using agent into an MCP-based agent, in three steps.

A personal chat front-end unifying access to a variety of LLM providers.

2025-05-25 Announcing Bizily: Time Tracking and Invoicing Made Simple for Consultants
A straightforward time-tracking and invoicing tool for consultants and freelancers, built by a consultant, for consultants. Live at bizi.ly.
2025-04-02 Striker Consulting Launches Sunfire
An AI video-generation platform built with Suzanne Bayles Consulting. Upload up to 7 images and get a script, voiceover, and music, sized for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn. Try the public demo at sunfirevideo.ai, or see the open-source code at github.com/rachedblili/Sunfire.
2025-01-30 Major Update to LLM Battleground
Added support for DeepSeek Chat V3, DeepSeek Reasoner R1, and Alibaba's Qwen models (Max/Plus/Turbo), plus markdown and code-block rendering, syntax highlighting, and user accounts with saved battle history.
2024-11-30 Introducing the LLM Battleground!
An app for comparing LLMs side-by-side using user-defined, auto-generated evaluation functions — another great idea from Suzanne Bayles.
2024-09-23 Watch Rached's Tech Talk at Hacker Dojo
"The Making of an AI App — A Finger Painter's Journey," a talk given at a Bay Area AI Network (BrAIN) event at Hacker Dojo, Mountain View, CA.