Build inside
the rules.
Entrepreneur and operator. Writing about regulated industries, applied AI, and what it takes to build serious companies inside the rules instead of around them. Currently building AutoCoin — a FinCEN-registered AI trading platform.
Essays
Long-form on regulated industries, applied AI, and building serious companies.
What AI Is and Isn't Doing for Retail Traders
I want to take the word "AI" off the brochure for a minute and say specifically what is happening inside a modern retail trading product when it claims…
Read →The Regulated Crypto Decade
A pattern I cannot stop noticing in conversations with operators across crypto, fintech, and the increasingly thin line between them:Almost everyone agrees, in private, that the next decade…
Read →Why I'm Building AutoCoin
Two summers ago, three people I cared about lost a meaningful amount of money trading crypto in roughly the same way, in the same six-week window. None of…
Read →A publication, not a pitch
I build companies in regulated industries, and I write here about what that actually takes — the operating reality, the policy environment those companies live inside, and where applied AI is genuinely changing the work versus where it's just marketing.
If you're an operator, an investor, a journalist, or just someone trying to think clearly about frontier industries and the rules forming around them, I think you'll find something useful. The best way to follow along is by email.