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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17

Kiran Kurmilla's Proof-First AI Portfolio

kskiran.xyz ↗ · Personal Pages · score 82.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

Auckland-based applied-AI portfolio centered on KiwiStart, a production service answering immigration, tax, tenancy, and settlement questions for migrants and international students in New Zealand.

Why it surfaced

The portfolio is unusually concrete about failure: KiwiStart is designed to abstain rather than improvise, attach server-resolved provenance, redact personal information, and expose degradation through instrumentation. It reports roughly 3,000 questions answered, 93.3% judged retrieval recall on a 30-question gold set, and zero false eligibility claims.

Monica’s Calendar of Flowers

August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.