Writing

Learning in public. Writing as I go.

Essays on AI, product, and the Booth experience — organized by quarter and by theme. Courses, competitions, case studies, and the ideas that don't fit neatly into any of them.

Q2 — Winter 2026

January – March 2026

Courses

Financial Statement Analysis (Smith)
AI & Financial Information

This quarter

Built Medibill Copilot — AI legal navigator for medical debt

BoothMarch 14, 20268 min read

Six months in: what Chicago Booth is actually changing about how I think

Two quarters into Booth, the biggest changes are not on my resume. They are in how I prepare, how I choose, and how honestly I measure my own effort.

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Q1 — Fall 2025

September – December 2025

Courses

Microeconomics (Hornbeck)
New Venture Strategy (Bacon)

This quarter

Adobe Case Competition — Top 10 finalist
Booth Hackathon — Built Choreo, won Best Use of AI + Most Likely to Become a Unicorn
VCIC — competed, did not advance

BoothJanuary 18, 20266 min read

Q1 at Booth: three competitions, three different lessons

Adobe case competition finalist who couldn't close. A hackathon win with two prizes out of five categories. A VCIC that didn't clear the first round. First quarter at Booth taught me more from the losses than the wins.

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Ideas

ProjectsMarch 15, 20262 min read

Building Medibill Copilot at Chicago Booth

What it looked like to build an evidence-first AI workflow in a domain where confidence without proof is a liability.

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IdeasMarch 4, 20263 min read

Why I care about building evidence-grounded AI systems

Grounding is not just a technical pattern. It is a stance on how AI should behave when people need to trust what it says.

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