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Robert Frost

Robert Frost

AI systems builder, founder, and operations leader.

At Virtu Prep, I build and deploy agent harnesses, adapted models, and speech systems while leading product delivery and company operations.

Deployed at Virtu Prep

AI systems in operation.

All Engineering work
  1. Virtu Prep / Application architecture

    Agent harness engineering

    Implemented, tested, and deployed

    A model can propose an action. The surrounding system has to establish context, check authority, validate the request, and decide what may actually run. I designed, built, and deployed that application-specific harness in Virtu Prep.

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  2. Virtu Prep / Teacher-student model development

    Speech model development & distillation

    Trained, evaluated, and deployed

    A teacher-student speech pipeline: audio generated by a teacher model, a verified training corpus, Piper/VITS student training, ONNX export, and held-out listening comparisons. The resulting student voice is deployed in Virtu Prep.

    Read the case study
  3. Virtu Prep / Model selection and measurement

    Model training and evaluation

    Models trained, evaluated, and deployed

    Supervised fine-tuning, held-out comparisons, adversarial checks, and evaluation-instrument repairs. Selected adapted models and application configurations are deployed in Virtu Prep.

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Operating experience

Companies, capital, and execution.

Full experience
  1. 2015 to Present

    Virtu Prep

    Founder & Chief Executive Officer

    Built and led a 19-person product organization. Company planning, budgets, hiring, and cross-functional delivery, with hands-on involvement in the product and AI systems.

    Responsibilities
  2. 2010 to 2015

    Koherent Incorporated

    Chief of Staff, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Investment Officer

    Operating structure, investment processes, portfolio reporting, and executive decision support across an international family office and private equity organization.

    Responsibilities
  3. Earlier Work

    FinTech

    Novus Partners, Caufex & Panafex

    Financial analysis, exchange operations, and international market development across institutional finance and financial technology.

    Responsibilities

Foundational work

The argument and the evidence vocabulary.

Published

Learning Without Gatekeepers

Independent book and interdisciplinary research synthesis, second edition, 2026.

It is an institutional argument and synthesis, not original experimental neuroscience or a peer-reviewed scientific monograph.

Read about the book
Published

Real Merit Protocol

Published open specification for keeping observations, derived measures, inferences, validation, and capability claims inspectable.

The protocol is public and inspectable; implementation, adoption, and validation are separate claims.

Read the protocol

Get in touch.

AI systems, technical product, and operations leadership opportunities.