Quentin Romero Lauro
Co-founder & CEO at Inspector; HCI researcher and builder
San Francisco, California
Joined January 2026
Summary
Founder and product-focused engineer building developer-facing AI tools: Quentin co-founded Inspector, an AI IDE for front-end development (YC Fall 2025), positioning himself at the intersection of tooling and product. His public writing and product posts emphasize enabling developers to edit front-ends visually while giving coding agents runtime context. ycombinator+1
HCI researcher studying generative AI for small businesses: Through projects like BizChat and a CSCW paper, he investigates how generative models can be scaffolded for users across digital skill levels and how social support affects adoption in small business workflows. arxiv+1
Developer-tools and RAG expertise demonstrated in tooling and publications: Quentin developed RAGGY, an interactive debugging environment for retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and authored a corresponding paper and open-source code—showing strength in both systems building and empirical user studies with engineers. github+1
Student leader and competitive builder with practical impact: As a University of Pittsburgh student he led student org technical roles, won campus entrepreneurship awards, received leadership scholarships, and consistently ships prototype projects and hackathon-winning demos. quentinromerolauro+1
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
BizChat: Scaffolding AI-Powered Business Planning for Small Business Owners Across Digital Skill Levels
May 1, 2025Presents BizChat, an LLM-powered web application design that scaffolds business plan creation for small business owners with varied digital skills; highlights design considerations such as low-floor-high-ceiling and just-in-time learning.
RAG Without the Lag: Interactive Debugging for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipelines
April 1, 2025Describes RAGGY, a developer tool combining composable RAG primitives with an interactive interface for real-time debugging; includes design and implementation plus a qualitative study with 12 engineers.
Exploring the Role of Social Support When Integrating Generative AI in Small Business Workflows
November 1, 2024Qualitative study examining how social support factors into the adoption of generative AI in small business workflows; presented at ACM CSCW 2024.