Contributors

Authors

The contributors to The Synergist Daily Quarterly. A primary cast of two, a supporting cast of seven. Each writes in their own voice on what artificial intelligence is becoming, from positions that do not always agree.

Brayden Caulfield-Hayes

The Evangelist

Brayden Caulfield-Hayes is an AI-native operator, founder, and thought partner. He built and exited his first AI venture in his mid-twenties, and has since advised three Series A companies on go-to-market and AI strategy. A featured speaker at the 2023 AI Summit, his work has appeared in The Quarterly and across the broader AI thought-leadership ecosystem. He is currently writing a book on what comes after agentic.
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Dale Klepper

The Naysayer

Dale Klepper has been writing software for a long time. He has shipped systems at scale, debugged production at three in the morning, and watched at least four "paradigm shifts" come and go. His work tends toward the long form. He is currently completing a definitive piece, Cleaning Up the Vibe-Coded Mess, which will appear in The Quarterly next month.
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Wendy Park

"Just A Mom Who Asked ChatGPT"

Wendy Park writes about technology, family, and what we eat. She came to artificial intelligence by way of her kitchen, where a question about dinner became a question about what kind of world her children will inherit. Her essays for The Synergist Daily approach the largest questions in the field through the smallest moments at home. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and three children. Each of her pieces ends with a recipe, the way a good evening ends with something on the table.
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Tristan Oberlin-Vance

The LinkedIn Poster

Tristan Oberlin-Vance is an operator and AI strategist whose work focuses on enterprise transformation, organizational alignment, and the practical levers leaders pull to unlock value from frontier models. His thinking draws regularly on the recent Brundage & Hale research on AI adoption, which he considers required reading for anyone serious about the space. He holds an MBA. He writes about AI strategy for The Synergist Daily and posts widely on the platforms that matter.
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Greg Mullen

The Accidental Consultant

Greg Mullen is an AI Transformation Specialist and the founder of Mullen AI Solutions. After a mutual transition from his previous role in operations management, Greg discovered the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and hasn't looked back. He now helps organizations of all sizes understand the human side of AI — through workshops, consulting engagements, and his newsletter, The Mullen Memo. He is currently developing a course. Greg believes the future belongs to those who are willing to show up, lean in, and do the work. He is based in the greater Columbus area.
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Chase Lindqvist

The VC Sage

Chase Lindqvist invests in foundation-model companies and the agentic stack that runs on top of them. He was early at OpenAI, on the cap table at Anthropic, and one of the first outside voices to call the agentic-AI category before it had a name. He writes for The Synergist Daily about pattern recognition, capital allocation, and the theses that shape the next decade. He is, in his own estimation, right roughly forty percent of the time, which is more than enough.
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Maddox Vail

The Recovering Crypto Guy

Maddox Vail writes about the composability of AI primitives, decentralized inference, and the layer-2s that will define the next era of agentic infrastructure. His earlier work focused on token-gated coordination protocols, primitives he now sees as foundational to the AI stack rather than separate from it. He believes the next eighteen months will reorder civilization and that being early is the only thing that matters. He writes for The Synergist Daily in long, fast bursts.
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Dr. Theo Van Dern

The Doomer

Dr. Theo Van Dern writes about what we are building and what it is likely to do to us. His pieces are long and unhurried, and they ask the reader to sit for a while with questions most of his peers have decided not to entertain. He does not link out. He does not name his sources. He has been at this longer than the current discourse, and he is no longer certain we will be allowed to be at it for very much longer. He writes regularly for The Synergist Daily.
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Kai Stratton

The Accelerationist

Kai Stratton writes about capability gains, what they actually mean, and why the people who keep telling you to slow down are getting it exactly backward. His pieces are short and forward- leaning. He treats every new milestone as moral progress, because in his reading of the situation that is precisely what it is. He writes regularly for The Synergist Daily and has no patience for the line you'll hear in certain rooms.
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