Hi, I'm Cole.
These days, my focus is teaching machines to read cuneiform, the world's oldest writing.
Previously, I spent 6 years as Co-Founder & CTO at AbstractCRE, an enterprise product for extracting structured data from commercial real estate legal documents.
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What I'm up to
DPhil Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
University of Oxford · Starting October 2026
Building NLP infrastructure for cuneiform. The document-understanding problems are surprisingly similar to the ones I spent six years solving — just a few millennia older.
MPhil Cuneiform Studies
University of Oxford
Expected completion: June 2026. Two years of intensive Akkadian and Sumerian. You can't build good computational tools for a domain you don't deeply understand, so I'm learning to read these texts the old-fashioned way first.
B.S. (Honors) Symbolic Systems
Stanford University
Concentration in AI. Minor in Classics. Came back six years later to finish what I started. SymSys — the study of how humans and machines represent and process information — turned out to be the perfect degree for what I'm doing now.
Independent Contractor
Lush Software LLC
A deliberate pause after six years of startup intensity. Took contract work while figuring out how to spend the next decade.
Co-Founder & CTO
Enterprise SaaS product to extract structured data from messy commercial real estate documents, run reports, and connect it to other systems of record. Architected, built, and maintained the entire stack for six years: user-facing product, internal annotation platform, data pipelines, custom ML models.
Undergrad (Pt. 1)
Stanford University
Leave of absence to start AbstractCRE
Born and Raised
North Georgia mountains
Grew up in moonshine country, taught myself to code at 14, and talked my way into working for startups while I finished high school online.