Financial Engineering · AI-Native Data Systems · Event-Driven Research

Nicholas Wagner

I build research infrastructure for turning messy public information—filings, central-bank communications, market data, and technical documents—into structured signals, dashboards, and decision-support systems.

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Selected Work

Featured Projects

FedGPT — Federal Reserve Communication Scoring

LLM-assisted pipeline for acquiring Federal Reserve communications, generating structured monetary-policy sentiment scores, and visualizing sparse, irregular central-bank communication signals for portfolio research.

  • FOMC release scraping and normalization
  • OpenAI Batch API scoring jobs
  • Structured score families for rates, inflation, employment, credit, growth, surprise, and policy phase
  • SolidJS/ECharts dashboard for sponsor-facing analysis
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SEC / EDGAR Event Intelligence

Local-first SEC filing infrastructure for turning filings, exhibits, and event disclosures into reproducible research artifacts and structured event signals.

  • py-sec-edgar-m and SEC/EDGAR ingestion workflows
  • Deterministic document identities
  • Raw and parsed artifact tracking
  • Event extraction and downstream research workflows

AI-Native Event-Driven Hedge Fund Research OS

Prototype architecture for agent-assisted investment research: ingest documents, extract structured events, generate trade hypotheses, run backtests, and write experiment postmortems.

  • Filing-to-event extraction
  • Trade-candidate generation
  • Backtest and attribution workflow
  • Reflection/postmortem agent design
Nicholas Wagner working in a lab on an early Opentrons prototype in Shenzhen, China.

Builder Background

Engineering Mindset Across Software and Physical Systems

My work sits at the intersection of financial engineering, software systems, and physical prototyping. Before focusing on AI-native finance and data infrastructure, I co-founded Opentrons Labworks and helped build early liquid-handling robotics systems, including firmware and Python API work for the OT-1.

That builder background now informs my approach to research systems: make the pipeline observable, reproducible, and useful enough that others can test and extend it.

Published Materials

Documents

FedGPT Sponsor Technical Report

A sponsor-facing technical report covering Federal Reserve communication scoring, FOMC ingestion, OpenAI Batch API processing, score materialization, visualization, limitations, and continuation recommendations.

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