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Ben Rippere.

Neuroscience → AI systems

I build AI systems that think like teams, act like operators.

I study how people make decisions at the neural level — reward, motivation, cognitive bias, risk tolerance — then build systems that account for those realities. Production-deployed, not notebooks.

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01 Featured work

Featured work

Live systems with real stakes — each one its own space. Scroll through; every frame links to source.

01 / Neuro × ML

TRIBE v2

Predicts how a video lands in the brain

It scores short-form video by predicted brain response, modeled from the video alone with no scanner, and commits its success criteria to git before the results, so the claim can be proven wrong.

TRIBE v2 brain-encoding content scorecard: a per-region neural-attention radar, hook/mean/offset deltas by brain region, and a 0–100 neural score.
Each bar is a brain region's predicted response (attention, social, valuation…). The 89/100 is overall predicted engagement.
02 / Behavioral finance

Sector Flow Analyzer

Catches sector rotation before it hits price

It detects institutional money rotating between market sectors in the covariance structure before the move shows up in price. Decision-support only.

live
Behavioral finance

Spots regime shifts early, and it's been tested honestly.

p = 3.26e-20

the signal is real, not random noise

13 yr

validated on unseen, out-of-sample data

60.7%

calls right — vs a 55% coin-flip

regime classifier
crisis
risk-off
neutral
rotation
risk-on
03 / Systems

alfred-v2

My always-on second brain

A self-hosted memory system that captures everything I read, answers in under a second, and repairs itself before it ever pages me.

live
Systems

Capture → recall in under a second → self-repair

01

Obsidian vaults

everything I read · 6 domains

02

pgvector graph

30k+ records, embedded

03

MCP query bridge

answers in under a second

04

self-healing watchdog

detect → heal → page (last resort)

04 / Agentic product

NovaCRM

Turns inbox chaos into a sales pipeline

A live AI-native CRM where six agents read scattered email and Slack and turn them into structured, prioritized deals, with a human in the loop for the calls that matter.

NovaCRM pipeline board — deals across stages with AI win-probability and deal-health scoring.
The live pipeline: six agents sort email + Slack into prioritized deals, each with an AI-scored win probability.

Sentiment models, automation infra, and the experiments that don’t make the front page — the receipts are all public.

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02 About

About

I build agentic AI systems: software where autonomous agents read through messy human information, reason about it, and carry the work all the way to action. I come at it from an unusual angle. I study how people actually decide (reward, motivation, bias, at the neural level) and design systems with those realities built in. Builder first; the science is the lens I build through.

My main system, NovaCRM, is a live AI-native CRM where six specialized agents turn scattered email and Slack into a structured pipeline. Each agent has one bounded, verifiable job, and a person stays in the loop for the moments that matter. It grew out of Executive Mind Matrix, where three agents with competing cognitive biases argue a decision before routing it. Around them I’ve built a knowledge system that self-heals before it pages me, a model that scores video by predicted brain response (success criteria committed to git before the results), and a behavioral-finance tool that catches institutional rotation in covariance before it shows up in price.

The thread through all of it: the bottleneck is rarely the model. It’s the system around it, and the people it’s for. I care about the gap between good thinking and executed action, because I’ve watched capable people drown in operational overhead while their best ideas never ship. So I’m putting real agentic systems into production and learning in the open, headed toward an early-stage team where building the system and understanding the people it serves are the same job.

  • Domain

    Agentic AI systems, grounded in the neuroscience of decision-making

  • Builds

    NovaCRM · alfred-v2 · TRIBE v2 · Sector Flow · Executive Mind Matrix

  • Studies

    Psychology & Entrepreneurship · cognitive science w/ a computational-neuroscience grounding

  • Direction

    AI product / engineering at an early-stage team

03 Building in public

Building in public

What I shipped, what broke, what I learned — with the diff attached.

Rigor

Caught my own product's landing page overselling. Ripped out fabricated ML claims, rewrote it to the real stack, and wrote an honest demo script. Credibility over hype, even on your own front door.

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Systems

Built a cross-venue financial hub edge-first: the signal is vendored so a dead disk mount can't silently kill it. It fails loud with EDGE-DOWN, and every recommendation is bound to a P&L trust gate. The dangerous failure is the silent one.

Product

Got TRIBE's video scorer running end-to-end on a persistent A100, including unwrapping a silently-failing nested output and validating each clip's size and length before paying for GPU time. Validate inputs before you spend on compute.

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Incident

My memory system's vector store corrupted under a bad write window. Instead of paging me, it now self-heals the corruption and shrinks the window that caused it, so the same failure fixes itself and gets rarer. Fix the condition, not the symptom.

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04 Connect

Building decision intelligence, behavioral AI, or agentic tooling? I’d like to compare notes.