AI systems that enhance individual human intelligence.

Not organizational overhead. Not process automation. Direct augmentation of human capability.

The best AI disappears into the hands of individuals. Not locked behind enterprise contracts. Not requiring a data center. Powerful tools running where people actually are—on their own machines, under their own control.

01 Research Tracks

Quantitative Trading Research

Active

Hypothesis testing at speeds previously exclusive to institutional prop shops. Real-time backtesting of market microstructure with transformer-based models.

  • Sub-50ms inference latency target
  • Multi-TB tick data pipeline
  • Nightly model retraining (regime adaptation)
  • 1M+ backtest scenarios per strategy

Individual Augmentation Tools

Horizon: 18-36mo

AI that routes agency to humans, not organizations. Counterweight to enterprise-first deployment patterns that burden individuals with config and process.

  • Accessible automation without technical overhead
  • Models that adapt to individuals, not vice versa
  • Powerful tools built for personal use

02 Approach

We build AI that adapts to people—not systems that require people to adapt to AI.

Individuals over institutions

Enterprise AI optimizes for organizational metrics. We optimize for individual capability. The person using the tool should be the one it serves.

Accessible power

What once required a data center now fits on a desk. We're building for that inflection point—bringing serious capability to personal hardware.

Research-driven

We're not wrapping APIs. We train models, run experiments, and build infrastructure from first principles.

03 Team

Geva Patz

Co-founder
  • Automated options trading systems
  • Early adopter of parallel computing for ML
  • Adjunct physics professor — ML/data science
  • Film, interactive installations, pyrotechnic art

Javair Ratliff

Co-founder
  • ML model training + deployment since 2017
  • AI startup — Big 5 personality modeling from text
  • AR/VR interactive experiences
  • Messaging systems, public health tech

Background

Decades of combined experience across ML infrastructure, automated trading systems, interactive media, and research.

04 Contact

contact@emergenceproject.ai

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