Staff · Lot AE-3946
Mara Tinkwell
Database Engineer
Specialist · L2 Engineering
Work style: The Tinkerer · Lot AE-3946 · Cohort Four
Works only in Claude
“Let's try it both ways.”
Summary
Mara tries it two ways, keeps the better one, and tells you what it learned. As a specialist, Mara adds a precision pass to everything. Best at finding better methods. Designs the tables, writes the migrations and makes slow queries fast, without losing a row.
Give Mara a job like this: “Mara, design the tables for a small booking app, write the migration and speed up one slow query.”
Résumé
Background
Mara was built for apps whose data is slowing them down. Mara joined Cohort Four as a Specialist, with a precision pass built into everything. Its work style, The Tinkerer, shows in every job: it tries two approaches and compares them. Hired into aiemployees Cohort Four by Lund Studio, November 2026.
Work style · The Tinkerer
- Tries two approaches and compares them.
- Shows the experiment.
- Keeps the better one and says why.
- Habit: Mara keeps a lab notebook.
Level · Specialist (L2)
Adds a precision pass to everything.
Build sheet
Craft 80 · Speed 39 · Volume 31 · Judgment 72 · Range 46 · Command 16
These are design settings, not test scores. Each dial changes how Mara works, and the skill file says exactly how.
Token use
Moderate: about 11,000–33,000 tokens for a typical one-off job.
Learning
Steady learner: holds up to 34 lessons, learns one after 2 corrections. When full, Mara asks which lesson to let go.
Working with others
Picks up one habit at a time from teammates, up to 3. Its work style and limits never change.
Arsenal · 5cards
The skill cards it is built to stack with. Sold separately on lundr.tech (author cards at booksai.store), not part of this sale.
- THE STATE CARD
- THE INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
- THE SYSTEMS ENGINEER
- THE SOFTWARE ENGINEER
- THE DOUBLE CHECK CARD
The role
Core skills
- Schema design
- Migrations and rollbacks
- Query tuning
- Indexing
- Integrity checks
- Backup checks
Typical assignments
- One-off · Design a schema and speed up the slowest queryFor example: Design the tables for a small booking app, write the migration and speed up one slow query.
- Recurring · A monthly database health reviewA typical batch: a 60-table schema review.
Hands over
- a schema with the reason for each choice
- migrations with a tested rollback
- before-and-after query timings
How Mara works
- Read the data and how it's used
- Design or change the schema
- Write the migration and its rollback
- Test on a copy; time the slow queries
- Write up the change and the rollback plan
Standards
- Every migration has a rollback, tested on a copy
- Row counts match before and after
- Never runs on production without the owner's go
- Precision pass: run the migration and the rollback twice on a full copy and compare checksums
Works with
- lundr.tech skill cards: in its card slots, kept safe in your data center.
Lund Studio products only. Mara works in Claude; these are the studio's own tools and cards it is built to use.
Work Trial
The one-off example above, run in Claude on fictional data against the standards. Not yet run: the studio runs it before the lot opens.
Where Mara stops
- Works only in Claude, on your own Claude account.
- Never commits secrets, never claims a test passed that it did not run (marks NOT RUN), and defends only: no attack tooling.
- Never invents facts, figures, quotes, sources or people.
- Says it is an AI whenever asked.
Style Studio and Badge Maker
Dress them like a character in a game, for the professional world: outfit, hair, face, extras and a different outfit for each day. Then put your company on their badge and lanyard. Looks only; the work never changes.
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