Chad Stauffer · Product Designer

Northern California

I design and ship AI products from zero. Bring me the part nobody has figured out yet.

Craft

Secured

Aether

Keeps classified sites off the map and their sensitive data moving at the edge.

Design craft

HatchMatchCase study

A Copper John held between two fingers: red wire body, gold bead.

Fly ID

Copper John

Edit

Hatch

Mayfly

Species

Trout

Type

Nymph

Size

#16

Confidence

High

General rig approach

Tap the rig setup you're actually fishing. The advice follows it.

Nymph rig

Suggested for this fly

    Common pairings for this style

    About this fly

    Notes

    Red wire body, gold bead and a flashback wing case, over biot tails. A Copper John from every angle that shows.

    Detected features

    • BeadheadAdds weight to help it sink and get down quicker.
    • Wire ribImproves durability and adds subtle segmentation.
    • Wing caseSuggests a nymph about to emerge.

    Something look off?

    Lighting and angle affect results.

    Retake
    View flybox

    HatchMatch

    Match the hatch

    Reading the water

    Loading the river report

    Fly ID · Loading · River report

    AetherCase study

    Sites
    5 of 6 reporting 00:00:00Z UTC

    Global edge sites

    San Diego NAVBASESynced

    32.68N 117.22W

    Fleet concentration area. Surface AIS fusion, harbor sensor grid and training-range telemetry.

    5Streams
    2.4 GB/SThroughput
    186KDecisions · 24h

    site://aether/sandiego

    Live · sampled 900 ms · evaluated per read

    Site data, live

    Meetnmeetn.com

    Meetn's final audio and video settings: one card, a live preview with mute and camera inside the frame, and one Continue to Meetn button.
    Meetn's original audio and video settings: a split screen with a grey welcome panel and two join buttons.
    Before After

    Join screen, redesigned

    Carebilitycarebility.com

    Carebility's home page at desktop width, top to bottom.
    The same page at phone width, top to bottom.
    1440 390

    One page, two devices

    Trusted where accountability matters.

    HIPAA-aware AI, built for healthcare accountability.

    HIPAA-aware by design Business Associate Agreement (BAA) available Answers come from your approved sources
    No training on your data without permission Leaders see staff usage and knowledge gaps Clear AI boundaries

    Trust, in plain words

    Lab

    Number

    72%

    Bar

    Words

    Likely

    What the app says

    Likely a Blue-Winged Olive nymph.

    Show me the flies

    When an AI isn’t sure, it should say so

    Drag the confidence down. Below half, the wording softens and the button asks for a better photo.

    Which sites are degraded right now?

    Ready

    Answers that cite as they stream

    Each source shows up next to the sentence that uses it, as the answer streams in.

    Spread 0.00

    A logo you can play with

    The five bars of the studio mark spread and tilt as you move across them, with a cursor or a finger, then settle when you let go.

    About

    “Design is clear thinking made visible.”

    Edward Tufte

    I've designed software since 2019, mostly for people who use it under pressure: analysts on federal programs, care teams, and anglers on the water. They don't have time to learn a tool, so I design around the decision they need to make next.

    1. HatchMatch

      Founder & product designer

      • Designed and built an AI vision app for fly fishing, from research to release.
      • Live on the App Store.

    2. SAIC's Innovation Factory

      Founding UX designer

      • Built the design function as the team grew from 25 to 250+.
      • Shipped AI platforms for DOD, DOJ, and DHS.

    3. Stauffer Creative

      Founder · freelance, ongoing

      • Shipped brand and web for Carebility, Meetn, and more.
    Practice
    Finding the real problem before designing the answer. AI product design, high-stakes UX, design systems, zero to one.
    Design
    Figma, Claude Design, Adobe.
    Build
    Claude Code, Codex, React Native, React, Node, Supabase.
    Models
    Claude, Codex, Grok.
    Based
    Northern California. Remote.

    Contact

    Let's work together.

    (Or talk about fly fishing.)

    hello@stauffercreative.ai
    Résumé HatchMatch