Aviation-adjacent work
Corrie Mays can support selected aviation and defense-adjacent projects with 20 years of experience as a Marine Corps aviator, Naval Flight Officer, and Blue Angel.
Team
Main Character is founder-led by Gabe Mays, with project-specific subject-matter review for work that depends on operational judgment.
Systems-minded builder.
I build AI systems for operational workflows, technical teams, and decisions that need context, speed, and review.
Before technology, I served as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. That experience shaped how I think about leadership, operations, communication, and the importance of tools that work under pressure.
After the military, I moved into technology and product leadership, eventually leading product teams at GoDaddy while building startups and side projects across SaaS, automation, developer tools, and AI systems.
Main Character is my product lab for building small, testable AI systems around specific workflows. Some of that work starts in personal tools; some of it becomes infrastructure, compliance tooling, or frontline operational software. The thread is simple: AI is most useful when it is close to the source material, the workflow, and the person making the decision.
Domain judgment supports the build.
Main Character is founder-led. When a project depends on specialized operational knowledge, I pair product and engineering work with credible subject-matter review.
Project-specific review
For other domains, the right reviewer should match the workflow: operators, analysts, maintainers, or experts who understand the environment and constraints.
How we think
The operating kernel
Across the work, the same product architecture keeps showing up: keep context, source material, permissions, decisions, and follow-through in one accountable system.
The model is replaceable. The durable asset is the operating layer around it: what the system saw, why it suggested something, who approved it, what changed, and how the result can be reviewed.
Source evidence before output
Commands before autonomy
Durable state over prompt state
Human review where judgment matters
Evaluation before scale
Shared capabilities across surfaces
How we build
Build from the workflow
Start with the person doing the work, the constraints around them, and the decision they need to make next.
Reduce cognitive load
Good tools lower the amount of coordination, searching, and translation required before a person can make a decision.
Keep judgment in the loop
The goal is not replacing judgment. It is better context, better memory, and better execution when the stakes are real.
Outside work.
I am originally from California and now live on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with my wife of 18 years and our two children, Maverick and Samantha.
Ready to build something real?
Main Character helps turn complex product, workflow, and architecture problems into systems that work under real constraints.