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Capital Markets Technologist · Agentic AI · London
I work at the intersection of agentic AI and capital markets — where engineering detail meets boardroom consequence. Most of my week is spent designing systems that can reason over financial data without quietly producing nonsense, and thinking hard about the reference data underneath them. I write about what actually works in production: the plumbing, the governance, and the bits that don't make it into the demo.
// governance before glamour · plumbing before prompts · people before platforms
AGENTIC AI IN PRODREFERENCE DATACAPITAL MARKETSBUY-SIDE OPS
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18 JUN 2026AGENTSWhy reference data is the hardest problem in agentic financeAgents don't fail on reasoning. They fail on the data underneath them.2 min11 JUN 2026METAStarting a journalWhy I'm writing weekly, and what you can expect from this corner of the terminal.1 min