About

I'm cofounder and CEO of Continual, an AI agent platform for business.

Previously, I cofounded Sense, an enterprise machine-learning platform that Cloudera acquired in 2016. I spent the next three years as CTO for Machine Learning at Cloudera.

I hold a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard, where I studied causal inference under Guido Imbens, and an MPA in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School. Before graduate school I worked at the World Bank. After the PhD, I was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science. My applied work through this period was in development economics and the causal evaluation of public policy.

I write here about AI and economics.

Reach me at tristan@continual.ai, or on X , and LinkedIn .