US citizen · Remote / async Open to: Head of Finance Vertical, Every
Overview
Finance founder, Wiley author, and applied AI operator focused on turning frontier models into working systems for financial teams. Founded and exited Raen Trading after building its trader evaluation software, AI operating workflows, training architecture, and partner relationships. Strong fit for Every’s finance AI consulting practice: credible with finance clients, hands-on with agentic systems, and comfortable teaching complex workflows to non-technical teams.
Why this role
I’m pursuing the finance vertical at Every because it’s the work I just finished doing on myself. At Raen, I didn’t bolt AI onto a trading firm — I rebuilt the operating layer around it: support, inbox, research, mentorship, curriculum, internal coordination, plus the trader evaluation platform we shipped with a quant and a designer. Every is selling that transition to clients. I can bring finance credibility, hands-on agentic implementation, and a written track record of teaching complex process to non-technical operators.
This is a fit move, not a comp move — I just exited Raen, so I’m choosing what comes next. Small team of early adopters. Builder/writer DNA. The explicit bet that the next decade goes to teams who manage AI agents as effectively as they manage people. Every is where I want to do that work.
Selected Systems
Agentic operating system
Implemented AI agents across support, inbox workflows, mentorship operations, research, curriculum production, and internal coordination.
Finance knowledge engine
Building a Python / LangGraph system that converts research papers, articles, and transcripts into reusable, stress-tested knowledge primitives.
Trader evaluation platform
Worked with quants, developers, and designers to evaluate real trade data through risk-adjusted analytics instead of headline P&L.
Studies
A growing collection of interactive demos and short essays. Each study takes one idea — edge, ruin, regime, sizing, policy — and makes it visible. Pull the sliders. Watch the math behave. studies-ryanwright.vercel.app →
Experience
Founder & CEO Raen Trading
Founded and scaled Raen Trading from zero into an institutionally partnered principal / proprietary futures trading firm; exited via founder buyout in May 2026.
Built and led a team of 15 full-time across product, risk, operations, design, and trader development, alongside 30+ contracted traders — hiring, direction, feedback, and talent development.
Led relationships across institutional software, brokerage and capital partners, product, risk, operations, design, and trader development while growing organically with zero paid marketing.
Systematized workflows, documentation, training, and AI-enabled operations so the company could operate beyond founder dependency.
Founder Raen Ventures
Built Raen Ventures as a private R&D lab and consulting vehicle for technical architecture, IP development, and agentic AI workflows in institutional finance.
Designed finance-specific AI workflows around research intake, statistical-arbitrage synthesis, risk review loops, writing systems, advisor processes, and operating coordination.
Consulted with proprietary and principal trading firms, brokers, and finance operators on moving from AI curiosity to practical workflow adoption.
Earlier
Co-founder Apteros Trading
Co-founded and directed a proprietary futures trading operation; built trader development systems connecting strategy design, risk behavior, execution quality, and performance attribution.
Strategic Advisor Plotify
Advised a venture-backed institutional real estate platform on growth, global expansion, investor relations, SPV structures, and institutional block trades.
Director of Strategic Initiatives Liquidity Digital
Held an executive strategy role at a blockchain private-placement platform, shaping product strategy, deal formation, and capital raising with family offices and private investors.
Principal, Venture Strategy Wright&Company
Partnered with US and European startup founders on sales, business development, product strategy, go-to-market, investor positioning, and capital formation.
Principal Trader Single-Family Office Mandate
Ran a discretionary absolute-return trading book for a San Francisco-based single-family office.
Flight Operations / Aircrew United States Navy
Served in high-accountability operational environments requiring preparation, communication, risk discipline, and execution under pressure. Promoted through ranks leading aircrew teams from age 18. Honorably discharged.
Trained 100+ developing traders through live 12-week cohorts, run continuously for six years. Wiley Finance author, curriculum design, complex technical concepts translated into usable operating process.
Writing about professional trading process, uncertainty, risk, sizing, and decision quality at RyanWright.co and on Substack (2,000+ subscribers); nearly 8,000 followers on X.
Current stack May 2026
Pi for editing. OpenCode and Hermes for agents (moved off OpenClaw — brittle and sluggish). cmux for terminal. Daily across Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 (extra-high thinking by default, medium for speed), Gemini 3.5 Flash since the morning it shipped, Grok. Watching Sonnet 4.8 and Gemini 3.5 Pro next month.
In every early-access program I can find. Active on X for model reads and shipping notes — found Dan Shipper’s podcast that way this morning.
Education & credentials
Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management — Business Strategy Certificate, 2020
California State University San Marcos — economics coursework
Academy of Art University — MFA program, Motion Pictures & Television
Level 4 Diploma in Trading & Financial Market Analysis
