Bentley Continental R-Type — 1952 — Technical Drawing No. 001
About
Interested in software x hardware for overlooked industries. Currently building products to make the physical world safer. Previously did AI for governments, e.g. infrastructure & permitting, and mathematics.
Work & Projects
OpenGov
AcquiredChief of Staff, Head of AI Ecosystem
Serving 2k+ state & local government agencies. From permitting in San Francisco and infrastructure management in LA and Miami to procurement in Seattle and budgeting in Minneapolis.
2024 — 2026
Autoformalization, synthetic data, RLHF, RAG Fine-tuning, AI-native language servers, semantic search for math. Backed by Khosla.
2023 — 2024
Juicebox
Series BAI for recruiting. Trusted by Cursor, Samsara, Ramp, Verkada, and more. Backed by Sequoia, Lux, Coatue, Y Combinator.
2022
Writing
Reading
Things I recommend
Energy and Civilization: A History
Vaclav Smil
How energy shapes society.
Never Use Futura
Douglas Thomas
Cultural history of a typeface. NASA, Kubrick, Ikea, etc.
On Deep History and the Brain
Daniel Lord Smail
Human history beginning with neuroscience, not writing.
Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
On selfishness.
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Starting from scratch.