On the TechTO stage ×1
First seen on the TechTO stage in 2026. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Eden ↗
In their words
the limitation isn't really intelligence. It's not how smart you are, it's that one system is made to be legible, and the other just really is not
the infrastructure exists for finance, but it doesn't really exist for public institutions, which makes doing research on them extremely difficult
we really just want public information from government institutions and civil servants to be used in more decision-making across businesses, across policy makers, and eventually everyday citizens as well
Quick answers
What does NationGraph do?
It collects and normalises public information from US state, local and education agencies — budgets, meeting minutes, strategic plans, RFPs — so sales teams can see which agencies are about to buy.
What did he do before?
He worked on the quantitative research team at Citadel in New York and Chicago, on systematic equity strategies. He told the TechTO audience he grew up in Vancouver and studied computer science at UBC.
What did he tell the TechTO audience?
That government data is hard to analyse not because the problem is difficult but because nobody built the plumbing: Wall Street spent decades standardising its data, and public institutions never did.