Deploying Frontier AI inside Enterprise Finance

I bridge the gap between model breakthroughs and institutional deployment. I translate what the best models can do into strategies that institutions can actually deploy, and I'm always working to understand both sides more deeply.

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About Me

Taewan Yoon, CFA

Columbia MBA/MS. Built and scaled Claude's NYC builder ecosystem from 0 to 1,000+ members. Led the AI Club through historic 4x growth, and co-organized the flagship AI Startup Challenge. Founded BRAIN, a cross-school startup network tackling the hardest business challenges with frontier AI.

AI strategist, product manager, and startup community builder. Shipped agentic workflows as Manus AI Fellow, and co-founded AI-native fintech startup (acquired by a major insurance firm). Mentor at CFA Society New York.

Projects

Featured Claude Code Jun 2026

claude-ensemble: Achieving Frontier-Level Performance with Claude Code

A Claude Code kit for the most challenging tasks. Runs a Sonnet-5 panel with a high-effort Opus judge and a code-grounded verify-loop, entirely on a Claude subscription (no API key). Backed by blind, length-controlled A/B evals.

Codebase

Featured RAG Sep 2025

[MathWorks Finance Conference] RAG Pipeline for Quantitative Investment Research

Built a LightRAG pipeline that combines a knowledge graph with vector embeddings to make 4,000+ academic papers queryable, surfacing contrarian investment strategies with 2.4x more comprehensive responses than naive RAG. Presented at MathWorks.

Conference Recording

Product Management

Access to Experts — CNN Product Strategy

A 12-week product strategy engagement with CNN: diagnosed why engaged readers leak attention to Substack, podcasts, and X during breaking stories, then designed a credentialed expert reaction layer and stage-gated rollout endorsed by senior product leadership.

May 2026

Causal Inference

Causal Inference — Interactive Study Guide

A single-page interactive web app covering causal inference from potential outcomes to Double ML, with canvas visualizations, KaTeX formulas, and a full method comparison framework.

Mar 2026

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Writings & Insights

Featured Knowledge Management Jul 21, 2026

What Form Should Knowledge Take?

The AI frontier has settled on what curated knowledge should look like as a system, and retrieval turns out to serve it, not make it.

Featured Knowledge Management Jun 21, 2026

How I Think About Knowledge in Finance

Finance spent two decades improving its data systems. It did far less to preserve the reasoning behind decisions. AI has lowered the cost of finding that reasoning. This essay explains how financial firms can manage it.