Software · Product · AI

Dale
Spoonemore.

I like building useful things, especially where software, product, automation, and AI overlap.

I’m Lead Engineer at Untangle and a co-founder of From Seed to Spoon. My work spans building products, connecting business systems, and figuring out how to work well with AI agents.

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Dale Spoonemore outdoors, smiling — Builder. Musician. Oklahoma.

Dale presenting Seed to Spoon to the seated audience at Thunder Launchpad Demo Day. — Archival photo: Dale presenting Seed to Spoon at Thunder Launchpad Demo Day, 2018. · From Seed to Spoon archive

Work &
experience

Now

Lead Engineer at Untangle

Ryan Carson built and ran Untangle with AI agents before I joined. I came in to take over engineering and build processes around QA and client handling so Ryan could focus on growing the business.

My work brings together product decisions, architecture, implementation, testing, and agent orchestration. I spend a lot of time giving agents useful context, reviewing what they produce, and improving the process around them.

Business systems

Software & marketing technology

At J & P Park, I worked across a portfolio of e-commerce brands on software development, AI, automation, integrations, and internal tools. That meant connecting storefronts, business data, and the people who used those systems every day.

How I got here

From Seed to Spoon

Carrie and I created From Seed to Spoon to help people grow their own food. Learning to build the app was a big part of how I got here. Park Seed acquired From Seed to Spoon in January 2022.

Dale standing beside climbing plants in the family’s backyard garden in 2018. — Dale in the family’s backyard garden, September 2018. · From Seed to Spoon archive

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Notes from
the work

I write about what I’m trying, what’s working, and what still needs a person involved.

Short posts on software, AI, and the people behind the work.

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Practical guideAdapted: October 10, 2026

Getting better UI out of AI with image generation

One of the things I've found that makes a big difference in the UI I get from AI is spending some time working through the design with an image-generation model. I want to see a few directions and figure out what I actually like before I ask a coding agent to build the finished interface.