Team
Built at the intersection of ML and economics.
Nate Schmiedehaus
Founder & Research Lead
Homesick Candles (acq.)BuzzFeed Product Labs
Built and sold Homesick Candles. Led BuzzFeed's Product Labs. Ran demand forecasting across weather-sensitive consumer businesses and experienced the structural gap firsthand. Research focus: causal inference for time-series, economic scaling laws, and transformer architectures for structured economic data.
Julianna St. Paul
Graduate Researcher
Columbia University
Business & Social-Organizational Psychology
Graduate researcher at Columbia studying organizational behavior and decision-making. Contributes research on human factors in forecasting and organizational adoption of causal models.
Open Roles
We're building the team.
Full-time · First hire
ML Research Engineer
Researcher at the boundary of NLP and econometrics. Experience with transformer training, causal identification, or time-series foundation models.
Full-time
Data Infrastructure Engineer
Build the economic data ingestion pipeline: transaction records, FRED, BLS, weather stations. Reliability, schema contracts, continuous archiving.

