opening the room…
work
since high school i have wanted to build something of my own, and what i was after was never really a job. it was the independence of it, making something out of nothing and working for myself, free to chase a goal that i set, and that is most of what i actually stand for.
the timeline
- jul 2024
startup school
yc runs a free one day conference in san francisco, and that was the day i understood that whatever is happening in texas is a fraction of what is happening out here. i spent it in a room full of the most ambitious people i had ever met, and i have not been able to see it any other way since.
- jun 2025
ai startup school
yc ran their first one that june, and i was handpicked for it and flown out. that was the trip that actually did it, because i came home knowing i was going to start the company.
- 2025 to 2026
built the platform
i spent about a year building most of polara, and that year was made of long calls with advisors, partnerships i put together one at a time, and the foundation that the entire product still sits on.
- apr 2026
startup grind
1876 ventures flew me out to san francisco for startup grind, where i stayed with a friend who works at aws and pitched every day of it. my first warm connections came the unglamorous way, sitting outside the conference with a sign and introducing myself to whoever stopped, and those are the conversations that turned into my first clients.
- summer 2026
the summer i stayed home
i spent june through august on the product full time, closing the first clients and putting in the groundwork that the company runs on now. it is also the summer i started polara enterprise, a second branch built for the firms doing the auditing rather than the startups getting audited.
- sep 2026
first $10k
polara crossed $10k in profit.
- oct 2026
iso 27001
polara takes companies through iso 27001 now, not only soc 2.
projects
chik
a personal ai chief of staff for briefs, tasks, memory, and work across my computers.
crewdeck
a personal dashboard for calendar, tasks, and weather, with 15 ai workers and a system that repairs its own services.
beta tau omega
the chapter website for beta tau omega at texas a&m.
vendor risk
an ai tool that checks marketplace listings for fraud and policy violations, with batch processing and exported reports.
aanomoly
built at tamuhack in january 2024. an aircraft maintenance prototype that flags unusual engine readings in simulated data, with 3d engine visuals.
netprophets
built at hacktx in october 2023. a python experiment using sentiment analysis to score sports articles.
vin2pic
a desktop tool that takes a car's vin and finds a vehicle image and description.
research
LLM-IDEA: Identifiability-Driven Experimental Agent for Autonomous Discovery of Mechanistic World Models
previously project ascension
ai agents are starting to run science on their own. this one can tell when it is stuck because it needs to try harder, and when it is stuck because no experiment of that kind could ever answer the question. written with professor ulisses braga-neto at texas a&m.
