About

I am the founder of Minerval. Our mission is to build a map of the world’s claims, then use the map to direct attention toward answering the most important, tractable, and neglected questions.

The world’s existing epistemic institutions have never been good enough and are simply not going to cut it going forward. We can, and must, do far better. Other projects in the AI for Epistemics space are focused on building ever better techniques for using AI to reason better, but that will not, on its own, suffice. New norms, and new institutions, are needed. Minerval is an attempt to build one such institution: the claim graph.

I also work as the AI strategist at Broad Reach, a global macro hedge fund, where I designed and built the firm’s LLM agent framework. LLM agents monitor and organize sell-side research, news flow, internal communications, and price and positioning data into a coherent and accessible firm knowledge base.

Before that, I founded a startup called tooter.ai using LLMs to track students’ knowledge state and deliver custom lessons. I majored in math at Pomona College.

I write here at jacksonhurley.com and on Substack.