Field Notes

Lessons from building AI for finance in emerging markets.

Field Notes

The Frontier Is the Lab: A Note on Building AI for Finance in Emerging Markets

Promise and peril in roughly equal measure and why the people building here are solving the real problem, not a lesser version of it. I want to set out plainly what I believe about this work, because I think the prevailing way of talking about AI and finance in emerging

Field Notes

What Building an AI Financial Analyst Taught Me About Thin-Data Markets

Most AI-in-finance tools are built on an assumption that quietly breaks the moment you cross into an emerging market: that the data is there. There is a particular kind of confidence you can only have if you have never built for an emerging market. It shows up in