Mark Ulett driving a truck through a Montana valley, one hand off the wheel mid-sentence, mountains and cured grass through the windshield

MarkUlett

Trained as a philosopher and historian, I write about how AI agents behave when they have to do real work. Earlier this year I created BeargrassAI, where I build AI discoverable websites and agents for small businesses in Montana’s Flathead Valley.

48.37° N · 114.18° W · Columbia Falls, MT
A wooden trail sign reading Bearfoot Trail No. 6500 where a two-track meets deep summer grass, forested ridges behind

Fig. 01 Trail junction. Flathead National Forest, summer 2025.

Latest · Reflective Practitioner

Three recent essays.

No. 06 · September 2026 6 min

Hardening the Shell

A contact form is an open line from anyone on the internet to a small-business owner. I stopped checking who was calling and started checking what they wanted.

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No. 05 · August 2026 19 min

When Your Agent Stops You and Nothing Is Wrong

Your agents read prose that a human wrote, and some of it quietly stopped being true. The alarm is faithful, the reasoning is sound, and the conclusion is wrong.

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No. 04 · August 2026 28 min

White Bears in My Constitution

I replaced a creed with a constitution because the literature said to, and my agents started producing exactly the failures the constitution named.

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Track record

Since 2017, figuring out how systems actually behave.

2025 180

sites migrated in 3 months as Product Lead at ShyftLabs.

2023-24 2.5M

custom-generated puzzle pages delivered at Ways 2 Wellness.

2024 1,150

test cases written in a single day using a logic-driven QA framework.

2020 100k+

physicians and patients served by onboarding content at Noteworth.

Five continents. Thirty-six places called “home for now.” Montana is where home is.

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Campfire at a backcountry campsite in Montana, mountains and r-pod behind

Fig. 02 Backcountry campsite. Glacier National Park, summer 2025.