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Jack Lau

Proof of work

Products, experiments, and infrastructure connected to the ideas.

Searcle AI, the identity-graph infrastructure behind this site, and the experiments around them — each documented with the problem, the role, and what changed after building.

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Projects

Case studies connected to the ideas.

active / AI search product

Searcle AI

A Google plus AI search direction focused on source-backed answers.

People want faster answers but still need credible sources, context, and a clear path to verification.

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active / Personal site infrastructure

Jack Lau identity graph

This website as a public identity graph, research archive, and proof-of-work index.

Social profiles and resumes are too flat to explain a person's beliefs, work, learning, and context.

Open case study

planned / Interactive tools

AI workflow playgrounds

Small tools and demos people can use to explore search, agents, decision systems, and personal workflows.

Ideas are easier to understand when visitors can try an interface instead of only reading a claim.

Open case study

Work arc

The career chapters behind the projects.

Now

Founder-led AI product work

Founder / Builder / Remote

Building practical AI products and a public archive around search, agents, tools, writing, and learning.

  • Turning personal context into an owned-domain identity graph.
  • Designing tool and writing systems that can be extended through Sanity.
  • Building around AI search, agent workflows, and founder-led product loops.

Founder path

Searcle AI and startup experiments

Founder / Public web

Exploring Google plus AI search, build-in-public workflows, events, and early product discovery.

  • Shaped a clear thesis around source-backed AI search.
  • Built public context through events, writing, and social channels.
  • Learned from the gap between interesting demos and useful repeated workflows.

Quant chapter

Bridgewater and IMC

Quant / markets experience / Professional experience

A markets foundation that shaped systems thinking, decision quality, feedback loops, and comfort with uncertainty.

  • Built a mental model for decisions under uncertainty.
  • Developed taste for rigorous thinking and fast feedback.
  • Carried market-structure intuition into startup and AI product work.

Foundation

University of Ottawa

Finance to computer science / Ottawa

An interdisciplinary base across finance, computer science, mathematics, competitions, and founder communities.

  • Built the bridge from finance into software and AI.
  • Competed in trading and investment competitions.
  • Passed CFA Level I and continued toward a builder path.

Current work

Building AI products and turning this site into a public identity graph, research archive, and proof-of-work index.