Thomas Cadleitsthomas.dev

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I build AI systems you can actually measure.

Forward-deployed product engineer — eight years shipping 0→1 embedded with customers: startup CTO, founding engineer through an acquisition, owner of a $5M+/yr partner API at Magic Eden. Now: LLM agents with real retrieval, real evals, and a human in the loop.

lykos · forecast runthread 0x9f3a
ingestpolymarket/fed-cuts-2026ok · 412ms
rag54 chunks → 5 passagesgrounded
forecastP(yes) 0.38 · conf 0.725 citations
sizeedge +0.06 → 2u · ¼-kellycapped
approvalinterrupt() — awaiting humanAPPROVED
executepaper fill @ ask 0.32position open
logsha256 9f3a…52c1⛓ chained
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an actual run shape from Lykos, my open-source forecasting agent ↓

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selected work

agent · open source

Lykos

A prediction-market research agent — and an argument that agents should be graded, not demoed. It retrieves and grounds evidence with a two-stage RAG pipeline, forecasts the outcome probability with cited reasoning, sizes a position with edge-aware Kelly, pauses at a human-approval gate, then paper-fills and writes a hash-chained audit record. Because markets resolve, every forecast eventually gets a real grade against the price itself.

LangGraph.js · Claude · Voyage · pgvector · LangSmith · Python evals

146tests across the monorepo
interrupt()human gate before any position
sha256hash-chained audit log
Briergraded vs. the market price

fintech · llm tool-use

Qurio

A personal-finance agent that answers natural-language money questions — LLM tool-calling over live Plaid, Zerion, and account data. Code private; demo on request.

TypeScript · LLM tool-calling · Plaid · Zerion

consumer ai

MyTummyHurts

An AI food scanner that flags gut-sensitivity triggers — an LLM scoring pipeline over ingredient data, wrapped in a mobile-first product.

TypeScript · React Native · LLM scoring pipeline

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career · hash-chained

  1. [2025 → now]

    independent ai engineer @ applied-ai products

    Building Lykos, Qurio, and MyTummyHurts — production LLM systems with retrieval, evals, and human-in-the-loop gates.

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  2. [2024 → 2025]

    senior software engineer @ magic eden

    Scaled the wallet to a peak of 250k MAU across three chain ecosystems; built and owned the public partner API driving $5M+ in annual trading volume.

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  3. [2023 → 2024]

    founding partner engineer @ carpool

    First hire. Owned product and engineering for a high-performance Solana indexer, embedded with client teams — acquired by Magic Eden within 7 months.

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  4. [2021 → 2023]

    co-founder / cto @ blockstop

    Product studio for enterprise consumer brands. Embedded with each client from scoping through production — $3M+ in delivered client work.

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  5. [2018 → 2022]

    senior software engineer @ capital one

    Real-time data-streaming services — Java, Python, Kafka, AWS — inside a regulated financial enterprise.

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now

Thomas Cadle

Currently building Lykos in public, and open to forward-deployed / applied-AI roles — the kind where you sit with the customer, prototype fast, and ship something measurable.

Off the clock I'm chasing a single-digit handicap. The accent color is not a coincidence.