Superhuman Data
for Finance
The reasoning layer for long-horizon finance agents.
Three steps. One session.
Training-ready data.
Model performance drops exponentially on multi-step tasks
Scaling laws have driven AI performance through more compute, larger models, and more tokens. The binding constraint is now data quality. In verifiable domains — coding, mathematics — models can self-correct through automated feedback; synthetic data and training environments suffice. In open-ended domains like finance, law, and medicine, correctness depends on contextual judgment with no ground-truth signal to train against. These domains require a fundamentally different data infrastructure — and it does not yet exist.
Current models are trained on outcomes — what an expert concluded, structured after the fact. The reasoning moves that drive per-step accuracy — the cross-reference that triggered a pivot, the assumption revised midway through a discounted cash flow, the confidence shift before a final judgment — are absent from every existing training corpus. The data that exists captures decisions. Engram builds data that captures the process of deciding.
Reasoning traces captured in real time, structured for model training.
Every competitor asks experts to write down their reasoning after the fact. The result is a reconstruction — shaped by hindsight, narrative instinct, and the impulse to sound coherent. Engram captures reasoning while it happens. Here's the difference.
{
"event_type": "CONCERN",
"start_ts": 1421.3,
"end_ts": 1438.7,
"transcript": "Wait — the EBITDA margin assumption doesn't hold if you back out the one-time items...",
"confidence": 0.94,
"pause_delay": 4.2,
"screen_state": "event_1421.300.jpg",
"revision_triggered": true,
"label": "EBITDA margin challenge"
}
Codifying Wisdom into
Reasoning Trace Packages
Existing training data asks experts to reconstruct their reasoning after the fact — producing accounts contaminated by rationalization and hindsight. Engram captures reasoning as it happens, preserving the signals that retrospective annotation destroys: the 4-second pause before an insight, the confidence shift after cross-referencing a source, the pace change that preceded a revision. Time is information. The temporal architecture of expert reasoning is a first-class training signal, not metadata.
Each session produces three interlocking training signals: event classification (per-event cognitive typing), reasoning chains (multi-step logic reconstruction), and session synthesis (full-session analysis). The deliberative structure — hesitation, revision, hypothesis rejection — is encoded directly in the trace. Standard SFT requires extensive RLHF to correct errors the training data failed to prevent. When the preference signal is already in the data, RLHF becomes a refinement step rather than a corrective one.
Every training example embeds the screenshot the expert was looking at when they spoke — base64-encoded inline via VISION format. The model learns situated reasoning: cognition grounded against the specific financial data on screen. Voice cross-references visual context, making the data self-verifying by design.
Each session refines the reasoning format itself. As the corpus grows, it accumulates domain-specific structure — branching patterns, edge-case heuristics, decision-point taxonomies — that later sessions build upon. Session 200 is structurally richer than session 10. The result is a corpus that compounds in depth, not just volume, and grows harder to replicate with every session.
Your Knowledge Compounds.
So Do Your Royalties.
The prevailing compensation architecture for AI training data decouples expert contribution from downstream value creation. Annotators are paid per task or per hour — a transactional model that extinguishes the contributor's economic relationship with their knowledge at the point of delivery. The resulting asymmetry is structural: the expert's judgment compounds indefinitely inside the models it trains, while the expert captures none of that compounding value.
No residual claim.
Income compounds with demand.
The heuristics a portfolio manager has refined across multiple market cycles, the judgment a CFO has built through a hundred transactions — this is an intellectual legacy. We are building the infrastructure for humanity's epistemic endowment: a system in which the knowledge of its most capable practitioners is preserved in structured form, and returned to them — with every model that learns from it.
Cognitive infrastructure for AI companies building in finance.
Any team whose competitive advantage depends on the quality of financial reasoning their models can produce.
Built by Operators from
Finance and AI
Advised by operators who have scaled data products, led enterprise transactions, and deployed capital at the frontier of finance and technology.
- EEG research at UVA Computational Memory Lab — extracting latent heuristics from expert behavior
- 30+ analyses at a growth equity firm via Bain's Private Equity Group
- Chief of Staff at Cosmos Institute
- Senior Data Engineer at QuantumBlack (McKinsey AI) — 5 Fortune 100 agentic AI deployments
- 2.5 years deploying AI solutions for institutional finance and strategy clients
- Explainability research at Berkeley AI Research Lab (BAIR)
- 15+ years in PE due diligence and portfolio operations
- First expert to contribute reasoning traces to Engram
- Built voice AI infrastructure for banking and insurance
- AI product strategy for regulated industries
- Stanford Philosophy (Suppes Award) + CS
- Published at ACL, EMNLP, ICML, NeurIPS
- AI evaluation methodology and trust
- Head of Global Innovation & Design practice
- 25+ years in consulting — UVA Engineering + Darden MBA
- PE relationships across India, Middle East, and US
- Fluid Interfaces group — human-computer interaction
- Cognitive interface design and reasoning capture
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