# Brett Schneider - Founding Engineer at MeritFirst

> Probe-verified (tier 2 of 3). Last checked 2026-08-23. 2 of 5 capability checks passed.

- host: www.bretts.dev
- url: https://www.bretts.dev/
- category: software engineer portfolio
- type: personal
- country: US
- locations: Austin, Texas, United States
- language: en

## Probe-verified · tier 2 of 3

Probed live on 2026-08-23 against rubric v1. 2 of 5 checks passed.

- PASS — Markdown negotiation
- fail — Markdown twin at a predictable URL
- fail — llms.txt
- PASS — API catalog
- fail — MCP server answers

## Unverified actions

Read from the page's own content, with the wording each was drawn from. Inference is kept separate from tested facts; an agent completing the action is tier 3.

- **contact** — "Send email" → `mailto:brett.c.schneider@gmail.com`

## Summary

Personal site of Brett Schneider, a software engineer and entrepreneur in Austin working at MeritFirst and sharing articles on startups and software development.

## Context

19 sites in this index share the category "software engineer portfolio"; 0 are transactional.

## How we grade

- tier 1 — **Declared**: The site says agents are welcome in its robots.txt. A permission, not a capability.
- tier 2 — **Probe-verified** (this site): We fetched the site and tested each signal ourselves. Dated, repeatable, re-checked on a schedule.
- tier 3 — **Behaviourally verified**: An agent completed the action end to end — booked, bought, submitted — and it worked.

## About this record

Known-Good probes sites live and publishes what was tested and when.
Method: https://knowngood.sh/about.md · Rubric: https://knowngood.sh/benchmark