Posts

All my articles, thoughts, and ideas.

• Building a Memory System for AI Agents

  Published: Feb 17, 2026

  • 22 min read

  Vector 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.

• Building a Web Cartographer for AI Agents

  Published: Jan 17, 2026

  • 21 min read

  I 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.

• The Credit Invisible Crisis: How AI Can Bridge the Gap

  Published: Jan 10, 2026

  • 12 min read

  45 million Americans lack credit scores. Here is what that actually means, why it keeps happening, and how open-source AI frameworks can change it.

• Building Risk Intelligence Systems That Institutions Can Trust

  Published: Dec 1, 2025

  • 12 min read

  Lessons from building AI-powered vulnerability detection for financial institutions and supply chain operators. The hard part is never the algorithm.

• Why Explainable AI Matters for Financial Regulation

  Published: Nov 15, 2025

  • 11 min read

  The case for transparency in AI-driven credit and risk decisions affecting millions of Americans. Not just for compliance — for doing this right.

• What the Risk Professionals Are Saying About AI

  Published: Nov 7, 2025

  • 7 min read

  Notes from the GARP Charlotte Chapter Meeting on Artificial Intelligence: Risk, Governance, and Emerging Challenges — November 5, 2025.

• What I Saw Judging at HackNC 2025

  Published: Oct 13, 2025

  • 8 min read

  Seven 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.

• What I Took Away from the IEEE ENCS Leadership Summit at Duke

  Published: Oct 6, 2025

  • 6 min read

  Reflections 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.

• Building a Payment System That Proves Finality Instead of Asserting It

  Published: Sep 8, 2025

  • 11 min read

  Most 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.

• The Night I Told My Friends About Ifa and AI

  Published: Mar 3, 2025

  • 8 min read

  A 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.

• Rethinking Supply Chain Planning with Probabilistic AI

  Published: Nov 18, 2024

  • 14 min read

  Most supply chain software treats uncertainty as noise to be smoothed away. I've been building something that treats it as the actual input. Some thoughts on why deterministic MRP is fundamentally broken and what a better model looks like.