Jadon Jahnke

Jadon Jahnke builds AI tools that people use at work.

I'm an AI engineer in crop insurance. I lead the work on an AI assistant that employees across the company use to find answers in policy and HR documents, from building it to checking that its answers are right and that people actually use it.

What interests me most is the step from a promising AI demo to a tool a team relies on every day. Outside work I build small AI tools for documents and email, and websites for a few local businesses.

Currently: upgrading our ai assistant to a newer modelIowaBS Software Engineering, WGU (2025)
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Work

Current role · 2025–now

An AI assistant that answers employees' policy and HR questions

Employees ask a question in plain language and get an answer with links to the documents it came from. I lead the engineering, from what the assistant can search to how we check that its answers are right.

Lead engineerAWS BedrockLangGraphPostgresTerraform
What I built
  • Expanded what it can answer from 2 subject areas to 6, each backed by its own set of company documents.
  • Simplified the design from several cooperating AI agents to one once newer models could handle the job alone. I made this change myself.
  • Built the testing process: 120 questions with known answers that every update must pass before it ships.
  • Run it like a product, with separate development, testing, and production environments and monitoring.
How it works nowquestionassistantdocs 1docs 2docs 3docs 4docs 5docs 6
before: several agents, 2 subject areas6 document sets
2 → 6subject areas it can answer
120test questions every update must pass
1assistant instead of several agents
The redesign shipped alongside a model upgrade.Read the case study →
Current role

Modernizing 25+ reporting programs

I took over the reporting programs claims adjusters rely on and rewrote most of them in Python. What used to be one person's full-time job now takes about a fifth of my week, and adjusters get results faster.

PythonSASSQL
Current role

Evaluating AI vendors

I test outside AI products against our real use cases and write recommendations that help leadership decide whether to buy a tool or build our own.

ResearchRecommendations

Projects

GitHub ↗

Windrow

In progress

Reads business documents like invoices, pulls out the important details, and asks a person to check anything it isn't sure about. It works with whichever AI model a company already uses.

PythonReactPostgres

Receipt reader

Demo video

Reads receipts with an AI model that runs on my own computer. When it isn't confident, it pauses and asks me to fix the details before saving them.

LangGraphOllamaPython

Studiolo

Demo video

A focus timer that paints a one-of-a-kind generative artwork while you work. Finished pieces are saved to a gallery, and the art can react to whatever music is playing on the PC.

ReactTypeScriptTauriRust

Thriftin

Private

Take a photo of a thrift-store find and it identifies the item and estimates its value, with sources. My other AI tools can use it too.

NodeVision AISQLite
Screenshot of Inbox organizerSample data

Inbox organizer

Private

Sorts my Gmail automatically by topic, whether it needs a reply, and how urgent it is. Running it costs a few cents per thousand emails.

PythonGmail API
Screenshot of Household plannerSample data

Household planner

Private

A multi-tab budget spreadsheet rebuilt as a web app where a household can plan together, with logins and loan previews.

PythonReactPostgres

Experience

Resume (PDF) ↓
May 2025 — now

AI Solutions Analyst II

Farmers Mutual Hail
  • Lead engineer on the company's AI assistant (AWS Bedrock), used by 3,000+ people.
  • Built the testing process that keeps its answers accurate as it changes.
  • Modernized 25+ reporting programs, evaluate AI vendors, and report on usage to leadership.
Dec 2024 — now

Web developer

Freelance
  • Websites for small businesses, from design through hosting.
Feb 2022 — Nov 2024

Seed Technician

Bayer Crop Science
  • Built dashboards and data reports for production teams, and trained operators on automation systems.

Education

  • BS, Software Engineering
    Western Governors University
    Completed April 2025

Certifications

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • CompTIA Project+
  • ITIL Foundations
  • Google IT Professional

Tools I use most

AI

LangGraphLangChainAWS BedrockRAGAI evaluation

Engineering

PythonFastAPIPostgresTypeScriptNext.js

Cloud & operations

AWSTerraformDockerDatadog
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