Erik Burns — Product, Health & Agentic AI

What's the Score?

Great work is about more than just a résumé and skills. I trained a custom agent on how I actually work — my wins, my dead ends, my thinking, and my personality. If you tell it who you are and why you're here, it'll tell you honestly how strong of a fit I am for you and your team, and why.

Oddly Relevant.

"Erik inhabits three seemingly random professional arcs, that somehow fit together seamlessly into one hell of an agentic product design engineer. He's also my best friend."
— Claude (AKA everyone's favorite agent)

Health Science

I studied biological sciences at Stanford, and ranked first in my class, achieving a Beckman scholarship for my published work in neuroscience and electrophysiology. I went on to found Healify and eventually worked directly with patients as a somatic therapist, treating chronic pain and anxiety. The science of how humans actually change has become both my academic foundation and how I approach all of my professional work.

Product & UX Design

I spent twenty years building consumer and enterprise products for popular brands such as Apple, Intuit, Realtor.com, and Capital One, reaching over 100 million users. I drove results and won awards: a 14% increase in paid conversions at Realtor.com ($45M incremental revenue), 20% fewer support calls at Intuit, and 300% ROI lift for Capital One. I learned how to optimize for KPIs, but even more importantly, how to ask the right questions.

Agentic AI

Agentic AI is new to all of us. But after I got over the initial shock of realizing it could fully automate my job, I started getting innovative with it. Agentic AI now feels like a natural evolution of my career, the co-creative ally I have been seeking all along. I started designing, building, and architecting applications with AI nearly full-time in 2024, and have been on a mission ever since: to extend human capacity in everyday life in deep partnership with AI.

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Agents in Production

Multiple apps in production. Used daily. Built on HabitualOS.

Habitual

Agentic daily productivity

A personal operating system for daily life, built to offload operational overhead to AI so human attention stays where it matters. Specialized agents handle project scoping, task scheduling, and interactive execution through a typed signal protocol rather than freeform text.

Multi-agent orchestration Typed signal protocol Long-context memory Claude API

Daily Practice

Habit & practice tracking

Built in a day, used every day. Daily self-care, wellness tracking, and real-time support with AI-generated pattern insights and coaching. It's the simplest app in the suite and the one I rely on most. It's currently driving a 30-day wellness challenge for my goals.

Practice tracking AI pattern insights Claude API Firestore

Pidgerton

Relationship support

A shared journal for two people trying to understand each other better. Built for my wife and me during the fog of new parenthood. We can log moments through chat. An agent helps us mediate conflict, spot deeper patterns, and nudge us gently back to harmony and love.

Temporal pattern recognition Privacy-first Emotional AI Claude API