Built a customer discovery and market research pipeline using Claude Skills and Claude Design. Created training resources to teach the team how to use the pipeline.
Nate Besthoff
Product
design
AI + software + smart home
I’m Nate, a USC student working across
product design, engineering, and AI.
Seeking a summer 2027 internship
About Me.
I’m Nate, a student at USC’s Iovine and Young Academy working across product design, engineering, and AI. This summer, I built AI tools and research workflows at Adept ID and Prodoscore.
I major in Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation and minor in Artificial Intelligence Applications at the Viterbi School of Engineering.
My interest in product engineering started at NuVu, a project-based high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since then, I’ve developed dozens of rapid prototypes across software, electronics, product design, and architecture.
I’m especially interested in home automation and the ways AI can make everyday products more useful. I enjoy taking an idea from an early sketch to something people can try, then improving it through testing.
Experience
Download résumé ↗Built customer-facing Claude Skills and Artifacts on top of Prodoscore data accessed through its Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration.
Co-founded a startup focused on a smart wearable to help individuals with walking impairments break out of freezing episodes through external haptic cues. Secured $15K in funding from USC Office of Research and Innovation and developed an MVP.
Designed a new service offering, a project-based certification curriculum for SDRs. I also designed an automated research + outreach workflow with Make, integrating Slack, Notion, and error handling.
Designed an autonomous lead generation pipeline that scraped public data, qualified leads using the OpenAI API, and enriched contacts with the ZoomInfo API. My pipeline generated thousands of qualified leads from scratch.
Guided customers through equipment selection based on skill level and conditions, matching users to the right experience. Managed intake workflow including waivers, payments, and safety tracking for all patrons.
Relevant
Coursework
In Progress
Making with Materials
Fundamentals of Product Design
Industry Practicum I: Designing and Implementing Real-World Solutions
Exploring Ethnicity through Film
Team Projects I
Completed
Global East Asia Japan-Tokyo: Japanese Society and Design Thinking
AConstructing Experiences
A-Design Strategy: Problem Solving
B+Workshop in Architecture
A-Purpose-Driven Innovation Incubator
AThe Practice of Design: Ideation
AHuman Technology Interaction
B+Special Topics – Law Without Borders: Law in a Cyber Universe
AIntroduction to Machine Intelligence
ADesigning Interactive Data Systems
ACase Studies in Innovation
A-Disruptive Innovation
AAgent Native
Product Engineering
I use AI to build tools for product teams—from customer discovery and market research at Adept ID to Claude Skills and Artifacts connected to Prodoscore data. These are tools and areas I work with or explore:
- Claude Code + Cowork
- Claude Plugins and Custom Skills
- Claude Design and Artifacts
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Webhooks
- Openclaw
- LangChain and LangGraph
- Vercel AI SDK
- n8n and Make Automations
- Prompt Libraries and Prompt Engineering
- Learning Memory