Dacia Donohue · Portfolio & Field Notes

Clarity for the ineffable.

I build intelligent tools that make people feel more capable. Twenty years of professional work taught me what to build. AI showed me I could. Now I spend my days riffing with language models and shipping real things.

— welcome in.

Currently

Vibe-coding inside Clarineffable, writing Speak Human most weekends, and losing at Commander about 40% of the time.

Recently shipped

Talk Unplugged (iOS), PowerDeckAI (beta), a batch of Essentials guides for people who are AI-curious but jargon-tired.

§ 01 · What I'm building

Three things, made on purpose.

Each of these started as a personal problem. None were supposed to be a "product." They just needed to exist.
iOS · shipped

Talk Unplugged

Conversation starter cards for families who actually want to talk.

On the App Store · 2025
Web · beta

PowerDeckAI

Commander bracket analysis for Magic players who just want the answer.

Live in beta · 2025
App · in use daily

Clarineffable

A second brain built around the mess, not against it.

Runs my life · 2024–
The rest

See the full portfolio →

Including the smaller things — a Starfall collection tracker, Signal for ND college students, experiments that didn't ship.

everything I'm making →
Intelligent tools should make people feel more capable. That's it. That's the whole thing.— the one-sentence version

Say hi.

Most of my inbox is people telling me which metaphor hit. I like that. Tell me what you're building, or what question to ask.

dacia@clarineffable.com →

Or keep looking.

The about page is the longer story — how I think, what vibe coding actually looks like, why I named a company after a contradiction.