Richard Ewing
I operate as The AI Economist. The AI Economist is how I apply that system to AI.
I do not manage backlogs. I manage P&Ls. I sit at the exact intersection of CPO thinking, CFO rigor, and CTO reality.
"Most executives have two disconnected languages: Tech and Finance."
The Tech Language: velocity, backlog, debt, sprints, architecture.
The Finance Language: ROI, EBITDA, cash flow, payback, risk.
Few people translate cleanly between them. That translation layer is where real influence lives. I build the category where product management meets corporate finance and technical reality. My frameworks aren't theoretical—they are financial wrappers around technical problems.
"You cannot build an autonomous AI being on a foundation that hallucinates and forgets."
Everyone is trying to build AGI on top of stochastic text predictors. As we move from basic chat wrappers to autonomous systems taking actions in the real world over the next decade, admissibility and accountability become existential requirements.
I founded Exogram AI to be the deterministic control plane for the AGI era. We capture immediate value today by injecting persistent memory and structured inference (Layers 1 and 2). We enforce strict cryptographic guardrails (Layers 3 and 4) to act as the regulatory and operational baseline that makes AGI safe to deploy.
Domain Expertise✦ AI-Enhanced
AI Unit Economics & Capital Auditing
Identifying and eliminating AI hallucination debt, zombie infrastructure, and structural margin collapse in B2B SaaS environments.
Deterministic AI Infrastructure
Architecting admissibility control planes and state-hashing commit enforcement to prevent autonomous agent liability.
The Math of Ruin (R&D Efficiency)
Shifting engineering metrics from shipping velocity to Cost of Goods Sold efficiency and gross margin preservation.
Revenue Resurrection Specialist
Inherited stagnant P&L, drove 200% YoY growth to $20M. Scaled SaaS from $0 to $25M ARR. $5M cost reduction.
The Methodology
APER™ Diagnostic
Actionable Product Economic Review. Forensic audit of engineering throughput vs. revenue impact.
Q-PEP™ Protocol
Qualitative-Profitability Efficiency Protocol. Surgery for unit-economic insolvency.
Product Debt Index™
AI-powered forensic engine to quantify capital leakage in your backlog.
The AI Economist™
15+ years of methodology distilled into an executive playbook. O'Reilly book in progress.
Credentials
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