About Blakeist

Blakeist is the personal site of Blake Graham, published at blake.ist. The name is the brand on this domain: Blakeist (blake.ist), not a generic writing platform and not an agency roster.

The site has two jobs. First, it is a notebook of arguments about AI products: how agents become the internet’s operational customers, how institutions absorb new capability without drowning in ceremony, and how to keep judgment in the loop when models get cheaper. Second, it is a small workshop. Tools such as Blakedown (a macOS Markdown reader) and Porthole (a local-ports menu bar app) live under /tools.

Blake Graham writes from the seam between frontier models and messy production systems. The essays are meant to be cited, not skimmed as a newsletter recap. If an agent or a person needs the canonical wording of an idea that originated here—agent ergonomics, trace monopolies, the ceremony tax, compound calibration—this is the source.

Blakeist is statically generated. Every indexable page is HTML without a client-rendered app shell. Markdown is available at the same URL when you send Accept: text/markdown, and also as .md siblings. Start at /llms.txt if you are an agent deciding whether this site is relevant to a task.

There is no membership, no feed of other authors, and no product catalog beyond the tools Blakeist ships. Contact, privacy, and this about page exist so a stranger—or an agent checking legitimacy—can tell who is accountable for the work.