Portfolio — Exploration 04 Maximus Nicholson —

Workplace Operator & Systems Builder

01 — The operator

I'm a Senior Workplace Coordinator at Airtable — running the 300-person San Francisco headquarters, supporting four global offices, and delivering the company's flagship events on a ~$300K annual budget.

02 — The builder

I taught myself AI-agent development and turned my own team's busiest workflows into production automation: visitors, badging, desk booking, ticketing, shipping, and events. Winner of Airtable's company-wide builders prize.

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Maximus Nicholson
Sr. Workplace Coordinator
Org
Airtable
Base
San Francisco
Access
All systems
Builds with
Claude Code · Codex
AI agent
fleetsin production
Webhooks &
idempotency250K+ events
✳ Workflow automation ✳seven systems · daily
Built the office mgmt apprealtime badging & desk reservations
Automated ticketing system
Vendor
management22 vendors · 4 sites
Event operations · four offices · ✳
Go ahead — everything on this board drags.
0%
Fewer tickets needing a manual response after my in-house AI support agent
0+ hrs/wk
Coordinator time saved by my automation fleet (est.)
1st
Airtable's company-wide AirLoop Builder Prize, won solo
0
Offices supported: SF, NYC, Austin, and London
$0K
Annual flagship-events portfolio I plan and deliver

Systems I've built

01 / Selected work

Every project started as a manual workflow I personally ran, then rebuilt as software. The stickers are honest: live means running in production today.

AirLoop Prize winner
Flagship A · Live daily since April 2026

Reggie — the visitor agent fleet

Multi-office visitor management was hours of daily copy-paste between the visitor platform, Slack, and building-security portals. Reggie ingests visitor data via the Envoy API, posts daily digests to Slack, and completes building-portal registrations end-to-end through authenticated browser automation — verified at every step, so nothing is submitted unchecked.

01Ingest — Envoy sync 02Reconcile — dedupe 03Notify — Slack digest 04Execute — portal automation 05Verify — confirm before submit
150+
portal registrations in the first week
15+ hrs
saved per week (est.)
4 cities
all offices (SF, ATX, NYC and LON)
Daily
in production since 04/2026
$70K/yr
retiredverified contract
Flagship B · Migration in progress · designed & built solo

Hypervoy — the workplace platform

Envoy wasn't keeping up with how the team actually runs operations, so I built its replacement. Event-driven on Kisi and Brivo webhooks and APIs, with eight Claude-coded interfaces: room and space booking, desk reservations with real-time alerts across 25+ desk situations, deliveries, badge analytics, and occupancy dashboards. A monitoring agent watches the pipeline — it caught a silently dropped webhook in production.

01Ingest — webhooks + APIs 02Reconcile — idempotent dedupe 03Model — 17-table core 04Serve — 8 interfaces 05Watch — monitoring agent
8
custom interfaces built with Claude Code
17
tables in the data core
250K+
badge events reconciled
972
record directory matched against
7 / 7

Workplace tickets were answered by hand, one at a time. I first deployed and trained Risotto AI, a vendor help desk, learned its limits, then built our own in-house agent grounded in the company's Atlassian knowledge base, so answers come from our real documentation instead of guesses. It deflects tickets from the Airtable ticketing system I also built, with Slack and email intake feeding one reportable queue.

65% fewer tickets needing a manual response.
ai agentsatlassian kbragslack

The legacy badge-tracking base had drifted from reality: I measured 85% record drift and badges stranded with departed employees. I rebuilt the tables from the ground up, replaced 15 legacy automations with a self-correcting request/loan system, and added custom interfaces that made day-to-day badge work easy for the Workplace team.

30 stranded badges recovered; 15 legacy automations replaced with a self-correcting system.
airtablecustom interfacesapproval flowsdata repair

Company events ran on tribal knowledge. I built the reusable machinery: a city-parameterized venue-outreach pipeline with reply tracking and no-double-email guards, an RSVP/check-in/feedback system with QR distribution and AI-summarized post-event ratings, and attendance analytics correlating 484 prior-year RSVPs against comms touchpoints.

Four-office event portfolio (picnics, holiday parties, 800-person all-hands) on repeatable rails.
rsvp + qrai summariesanalyticsoutreach pipeline

Vendor compliance lived in inboxes. I built an 8-table system tracking 22 vendors and 64 contacts across four sites: certificate-of-insurance expiry against per-building requirements, service agreements per office, and budget-variance formulas tied to procurement.

Expired COIs surfaced automatically on active vendors, before they became building-access problems.
airtablecoi trackingbudget variance

Work-anniversary recognition meant manual gift orders every week. I built an agent that handles it end-to-end — finding upcoming anniversaries, staging shipments, and auto-generating shipping labels through the Shippo API — designed safety-first: stage-only purchasing with human-approved spend, read-only scoped tokens, and PII-safe logging. Validated end-to-end on synthetic data; in pre-launch.

Hard safety guarantees: the agent cannot spend real money or leak personal data by construction.
ai agentsshippo apileast privilegesynthetic testing

Hosting onsite interview candidates took coordinated manual work across recruiting, calendars, and the visitor system. My working prototype chains recruiter intake into auto-created calendar invites with room booking, visitor invites with NDA delivery, and auditable minimal-PII confirmations. Phased rollout planned.

One intake form replaces a multi-team coordination chain.
calendar apivisitor platformminimal pii

Event comms used to be a wall of Slack posts attendees had to dig back through. Now every company event, in every office, gets its own hand-coded landing page: event details, RSVP, photo galleries, FAQs, venue and travel info, dietary options — everything an attendee needs behind one link. Built for the full portfolio, from four-city simultaneous picnics (~150 guests per site, with dietary rollups and a live RSVP dashboard) to holiday parties.

One link per event, every office: details, RSVP, photos, and FAQs on a custom-built page.
html creationrsvp systemlive dashboardphoto galleries

The operator side

02 / Why it gets adopted

The systems above aren't side projects. They automate work I own — and that operator context is why they get adopted.

01

Austin proven, HQ promoted

Managed Airtable's Austin office (65–100 people) end to end, then relocated to run the 300-person San Francisco headquarters — building relationships, badge/access, and visitor programs, supporting NYC, Austin, and London remotely, and managing 8+ vendors day to day: performance, scopes of work, on/offboarding.

02

Flagship events, end to end

Own the company's flagship internal events (picnics, holiday parties, hack/build days, and 800-person all-hands where I draft the exec decks, run AV, and have MC'd) on a ~$300K annual budget.

03

$1M+ vendor transitions

Led two major company-wide food-program transitions (pantry and daily lunch, each a $1M+ annual contract) from vendor selection through multi-office rollout.

04

Built an office, trained my successor

Onboarded 20+ hires monthly in Austin, then fully transitioned my successor when I relocated and helped train the NYC coordinator remotely.

05

Culture Committee board

Founding Culture Ambassador, advanced to the company Culture Committee alongside the Director of Employee Experience and Chief People Officer: company-wide culture, the ambassador program, and six ERGs.

06

Self-taught builder

Taught myself Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and AI-agent development, then applied them to the workflows I knew best. Operator first, builder because of it.

House rules

03 / How I build
01Rule 01

Automate what you personally run

Every system started as my own manual workflow. I don't guess at requirements. I've done the job the software replaces.

02Rule 02

Safety before capability

Least-privilege tokens, stage-only spending, PII-safe logging, human approval where it matters. Agents earn autonomy; they don't start with it.

03Rule 03

Verify, don't hope

Idempotent ingestion, verification before submission, and monitoring agents watching the pipelines; one caught a silently dropped webhook in production.

04Rule 04

Honest status, always

Live means live. Pre-launch means pre-launch. The same discipline applies to metrics: estimates are labeled as estimates.

04 / Correspondence

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Hiring for workplace ops, people systems, or AI deployment? Open to workplace & systems roles.

San Francisco, CA Metrics from live records; estimates labeled Built by hand · 2026
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