Making things has always been my first language, and curiosity keeps me fluent.
Hi, I’m Jasmine. I’m an AI consultant in Austin, but that’s only the newest answer to what I do. I’ve been at a computer since I was four, spent a few years studying game design, six years working in operations, and most of my free time making art, organizing ideas, planning experiences, or following a new curiosity.
For a long time, those interests felt like separate parts of my life.
The work that finally fit
I’ve always been an organizer, and it started far from spreadsheets. My systems showed up in carefully kept journals, optimized routines, health experiments, event plans, and whatever small improvement could make everyday life run more smoothly. Call it optimization or laziness, I’ve always looked for the easier way to do something well.
Professionally, that instinct took me through executive support, procurement, inventory, vendor management, and then two years running a dealership parts department. I became the person coworkers brought the mess to, whether it was a stack of purchase orders that had become difficult to track or something that needed to be organized and carried through. I enjoyed creating order, but the relationships around the work mattered to me just as much.
When I began building software with AI coding agents, the creative and organizational sides of my brain finally had somewhere to meet. I loved shaping the idea, directing the build, and witnessing the project truly come into its own. For the first time, the kid who grew up at a computer, the would-be game designer, the artist, and the organizer all felt like parts of the same person.
Making room
I have ADHD. Without a clear system, I forget things, switch tasks too often, and lose focus. I build systems because I know exactly what happens when I go without one.
Lumen Daily began because my life was scattered across five apps and about as many journals. The system meant to support my life had become another thing to manage, so I built one place that could remember, track, and organize things with me.
Eventually, I realized I’d stopped testing it and started depending on it. It was helping every day, and my relationships were better for it. Around that time, I heard someone describe needing almost exactly what I’d built: one central life manager without juggling several apps. My immediate thought was, wait, I built that. That’s when it became real that I could build more of these for people who needed them.
Time is the one thing I can’t make more of.
Most of what I build is an attempt to stop wasting it on repetition and on carrying everything in my head.
The Jasmine Blend
For me, true care is found in the details. It’s about noticing where someone might struggle and building something that makes that step easier. I want to make things better, and I can be stubborn when I see a clear way forward.
I’ve gone by Jasmine Tea online for a long time, so The Jasmine Blend is the natural home for every side of who I am, and for whatever project comes next.
Outside of work, I’m almost always chasing some new curiosity, whether it leads me to an art project, a game, a wellness experiment, or a trip through a city I’ve never seen. That same curiosity is why I’ve wanted to create content for years, though getting comfortable on camera is the hard part. I’m working on it, so you may see more of me here eventually. I tend to bring pieces of those experiences home with me: photographs and little objects that might look ordinary to someone else, but feel inseparable from where I found them, and worth keeping. Maybe that’s also why I enjoy planning the occasional gathering for women around Austin. I love creating the kind of moments people want to carry with them.
Writing
This is where I put project notes, personal observations, and whatever I’ve been thinking about long enough to write down.