# Firas Kafri

> Firas Kafri. Strategist. Architect. Builder. Co-founder of Salalem, connecting strategy, system design, and hands-on building across products and organizations.

This is a personal website and writing archive. Canonical HTML pages are the citation sources; Markdown is an alternate public representation. Content is readable without JavaScript or authentication.
The author’s essays and interactive experiments express perspectives and limitations, not independent benchmark evidence. Project release and privacy details belong to their respective pages.

## Site and author

- [Home](https://firaskafri.com/): Canonical personal website.
- [Public overview in Markdown](https://firaskafri.com/index.md): Author, communities, and project summaries from the site’s public data.
- [About](https://firaskafri.com/about/): Strategist. Architect. Builder. Co-founder of Salalem. I shape direction, architect systems, and build across products, technology, and organizations.
- [Work](https://firaskafri.com/work/): Products and ventures.
- [Playground](https://firaskafri.com/playground/): Systems, ideas, and interactive experiments.
- [Contact](https://firaskafri.com/contact/): Public contact information.

## Writing

- [Writing archive](https://firaskafri.com/writing/): Published essays and observations.
- [I spent roughly $100K coding with AI on one project. Then I turned the logs into a city.](https://firaskafri.com/writing/phoenix-universe/): Phoenix Universe maps ten months of Cursor conversations and file edits onto a city. Here's how it works and what I changed before making it public.
- [I spent roughly $100K coding with AI on one project. Then I turned the logs into a city. — Markdown](https://firaskafri.com/writing/phoenix-universe/index.md): By Firas Kafri; published 2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z.
- [Putting HELM to work at Salalem](https://firaskafri.com/writing/helm-at-salalem/): Reflections on adopting HELM at Salalem: shared context, Ember, the work of review, and keeping people responsible for decisions.
- [Putting HELM to work at Salalem — Markdown](https://firaskafri.com/writing/helm-at-salalem/index.md): By Firas Kafri; published 2026-09-30T00:00:00.000Z.
- [FinSpec: getting macro out of my head](https://firaskafri.com/writing/finspec/): I built FinSpec to make the relationships between macro indicators easier to follow, with simulations I can question instead of dozens of moving parts to keep in my head.
- [FinSpec: getting macro out of my head — Markdown](https://firaskafri.com/writing/finspec/index.md): By Firas Kafri; published 2026-07-04T00:00:00.000Z.

## Discovery

- [RSS](https://firaskafri.com/rss.xml): Publication dates and canonical article URLs.
- [Sitemap](https://firaskafri.com/sitemap.xml): Indexable canonical HTML URLs.

## Optional

- [Salalem](https://salalem.com/): An AI-powered learning platform for organizations. My work connects strategy, product architecture, and hands-on building.
- [Flocki](https://flocki.app/): Attendance and leave management for teams. A product that turns everyday workplace workflows into one clear system.
- [HELM](https://helmframework.com/): The Human-first Execution and Leadership Model. Connecting direction, decision rights, and execution for product teams building with AI agents.
- [Progressive Clarity](https://firaskafri.com/progressive-clarity/): A free, open-source skill for AI assistants: answer first, keep important qualifications in view, add depth when it helps, and keep follow-ups natural.
- [FinSpec](https://firaskafri.com/finspec/): An interactive model for understanding how financial-market forces influence one another.
- [Homeward](https://firaskafri.com/homeward/): Homeward is a native macOS app that closes selected work applications outside user-defined work windows while leaving unselected apps available.
- [Phoenix Universe](https://firaskafri.com/phoenix-universe/): A city built from ten months of Cursor conversations and file edits on one codebase. Explore the demo or read how I built it.
- [Progressive Clarity agent index](https://firaskafri.com/progressive-clarity/llms.txt): Project-owned documentation and versioned installation sources; released independently.