Recent Posts
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Building a Memory System for AI Agents
Published:• 22 min readVector databases tell you what is similar. They do not tell you what happened, what was decided, or what the agent learned that overrides what it knew before. I needed something different.
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Building a Web Cartographer for AI Agents
Published:• 21 min readI wanted AI agents to understand the web the way a researcher does — not just fetch a page, but navigate structure, follow intention, and remember where they have been. Notes from building Cortex.
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The Credit Invisible Crisis: How AI Can Bridge the Gap
Published:• 12 min read45 million Americans lack credit scores. Here is what that actually means, why it keeps happening, and how open-source AI frameworks can change it.
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Building Risk Intelligence Systems That Institutions Can Trust
Published:• 12 min readLessons from building AI-powered vulnerability detection for financial institutions and supply chain operators. The hard part is never the algorithm.
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Why Explainable AI Matters for Financial Regulation
Published:• 11 min readThe case for transparency in AI-driven credit and risk decisions affecting millions of Americans. Not just for compliance — for doing this right.
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What the Risk Professionals Are Saying About AI
Published:• 7 min readNotes from the GARP Charlotte Chapter Meeting on Artificial Intelligence: Risk, Governance, and Emerging Challenges — November 5, 2025.
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What I Saw Judging at HackNC 2025
Published:• 8 min readSeven hundred students, eighty projects, and one team of five that built something I will not forget for a long time. My experience judging at HackNC 2025 at UNC Chapel Hill.
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What I Took Away from the IEEE ENCS Leadership Summit at Duke
Published:• 6 min readReflections from a full day at Duke University with IEEE Region 3's Eastern North Carolina Section. Semiconductors, agentic AI, open access publishing, and the people making it all happen.
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Building a Payment System That Proves Finality Instead of Asserting It
Published:• 11 min readMost payment platforms tell you a transaction succeeded. I am building one that proves it — cryptographically, deterministically, and in a way that can be replayed and audited years later. Notes from the work in progress.
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The Night I Told My Friends About Ifa and AI
Published:• 8 min readA casual Saturday evening with friends turned into a two hour conversation about artificial intelligence, ancient Yoruba divination, and why the future of computing might have roots older than any of us realized.