Mark Ulett driving a truck through a Montana valley, one hand off the wheel mid-sentence, mountains and cured grass through the windshield

MarkUlett

Trained as a philosopher and historian, I write about how AI agents behave when they have to do real work. Earlier this year I created BeargrassAI, where I build AI discoverable websites and agents for small businesses in Montana’s Flathead Valley.

48.37° N · 114.18° W · Columbia Falls, MT
A wooden trail sign reading Bearfoot Trail No. 6500 where a two-track meets deep summer grass, forested ridges behind

Fig. 01 Trail junction. Flathead National Forest, summer 2025.

Latest · Reflective Practitioner

Three recent essays.

No. 05 · August 2026 19 min

When Your Agent Stops You and Nothing Is Wrong

Your agents read prose that a human wrote, and some of it quietly stopped being true. The alarm is faithful, the reasoning is sound, and the conclusion is wrong.

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No. 04 · August 2026 28 min

White Bears in My Constitution

I replaced a creed with a constitution because the literature said to, and my agents started producing exactly the failures the constitution named.

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No. 03 · August 2026 11 min

The Grandmother and the Machine

Fifty thousand years apart, two women do the same thing. What that tells us about AI, and about the one question that has always done the work.

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Track record

Twelve years of figuring out how systems actually behave.

2025 180

sites migrated in 3 months as Product Lead at ShyftLabs.

2023-24 2.5M

custom-generated puzzle pages delivered at Ways 2 Wellness.

2024 1,150

test cases written in a single day using a logic-driven QA framework.

2020 100k+

physicians and patients served by onboarding content at Noteworth.

Five continents. Thirty-six places called “home for now.” Montana is where home is.

Mark · About
Campfire at a backcountry campsite in Montana, mountains and r-pod behind

Fig. 02 Backcountry campsite. Glacier National Park, summer 2025.