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Carl Weiss · Founder & systems builder

Growing thoughts
into things.

One evolving body of work across life sciences, market intelligence, augmented intelligence, and human-centered technology.

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I like to build.

Different domains.
One way of thinking.

The throughline is systems thinking: finding the important signal inside a complicated environment, then designing the human and technical parts together.

01

Life sciences & evidence

More than two decades connecting clinical operations, regulated data, quality, technology, and the people who need all of it to work together.

IRIS · Clinical systems · Real-world data

02

Market intelligence

Order-flow research and finished intelligence that help independent traders, automated systems, and software buyers see more and decide better.

Algo Futures · Sceeto

03

Human systems

Movement, recovery, rest, and wellness projects designed around the way bodies, attention, environment, and technology actually interact.

Vermont Forest · Enhanced Biofeedback

A field of connected work.

Some names are companies. Some are products, research programs, or places to organize an idea. carl.Farm is the map—the connective tissue between them.

Foundation · 20+ years

Life sciences

Global clinical operations, regulated systems, data governance, and IRIS.

Active · market intelligence

Sceeto

An Algo Futures company translating market complexity into finished, usable intelligence.

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Active · human systems

Vermont Forest

A portfolio of nature-first movement, recovery, resilience, and rest projects.

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Method · everywhere

The lab

Applied AI, automation, ontologies, prototypes, and whatever the next problem requires.

The names changed.
The work kept moving.

This is a timeline of operating chapters, not a collection of disconnected careers.

December 2005 — today

Algo Futures

The market-intelligence branch begins. Research moved through trader tools, bot-assisted workflows, and Sceeto’s current intelligence products.

January 2006 — March 2021

Shared Solutions

The operating vehicle for life-sciences technology, systems work, and the experiments growing around it. This chapter closes as Vermont Forest takes up the work.

March 2021 — today

Vermont Forest

The next operating chapter begins with VermontForest.com: movement, recovery, resilience, rest, and a growing portfolio of human-systems projects.

The connective tissue

carl.Farm

Not another company. This website is the map that shows how the full body of work grew from one systems-thinking practice.

Timeline anchors for Algo Futures and Vermont Forest use the original domain-registration dates.

Concept to system.

  1. 01Notice

    Find the pattern, friction, or overlooked human signal.

  2. 02Connect

    Bring the right domains, people, data, and machines into one frame.

  3. 03Build

    Turn the thought into a tool, protocol, product, or working system.

  4. 04Learn

    Test it in the world, preserve judgment, and make the next version more useful.

Thoughts on people, machines, and systems.

Recovered from the original carl.Farm notebook. These are working ideas—not polished doctrine—which is exactly why they belong here.

I speak technology.
I speak people.

I like to build.

Seasoned Global Clinical Operations (GCO) IT professional with > 20 years’ experience designing processes and building the technologies support all things data.

Decades spent learning how folks operate in GCO has allowed the continual honing of the skills required to successfully manage change via continual process improvements.

Enjoying a career-long learning experience where success requires me to be working closely, and holistically, with multitudes of disparate Stakeholders.

Comes with the Package

Mother tongues, Stakeholders and SME’s.

A speech bubble made from a diverse group of people

I speak IT.

I also speak Clinical, Quality, Regulatory, Study Start Up, Real-World-Data, Procurement, Data Governance, Medical Writing, Submissions, Operational Data Analysis, Health Authority Inspections, Learning, Manufacturing, Marketing, Vendor, Process, CRO, CTMS, eTMF, IQ, OQ, PQ, CFR, CRF, PHI, you get the picture.

Bringing common language across stakeholder communications leads to a more harmonious and efficient experience.

Steve jobs, Systems Thinking, and the ability to connect the dots.

Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards…this approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

A framed drawing of Steve Jobs beside books and a plant

The foundation of Steve Jobs incredible ability to connect the dots is built upon his Systems Thinking skills.

Systems thinking is a process through which one comprehends a system by examining the interactions and linkages that exist between the components of the system.

Systems Thinking provides methods to push beyond the immediate problems to see the underlying patterns, to fix issues or o implement holistic improvements.

Trained in Systems thinking by Jason Lim (Systems Thinking Guru), coupled with a curios disposition and decades of build experience, brings a particularly acute 3-D model of how systems inter-operate in the real-world.

This career-long, honed ability to break systems down into their discrete components - while re-imaging their configuration - provides extremely valuable oversight as programs goes from concept, through design, and into build, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

“Creativity is just connecting things.” – Steve Jobs

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

  • Autodidactic U
  • School of Hard Knocks
  • Liberal Arts with concentrations in Economics and Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, May 1986.
  • Regents Scholar 1982-1986.
  • Project Management Institute (PMI) PMP Certification [Expired]

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should become a thing?

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