Hi! I'm Aharon, welcome to my website, it's a pleasure to have you.
In the interest of good-hostliness, I'll cut to the chase. Here's what I'm up to:
I'm a Research Principal on the 'Finance Insights Team' in Gartner's Corporate Finance Practice. These days, I'm focused on emerging developments in AI and what they mean for finance strategy.
For the curious, I wrote or co-wrote:
- Finance 2030: The Future of Finance Technology
- Finance 2030: The Future of Finance Work (co-author)
- Predicts 2026: AI in Finance (co-author)
- Leadership Vision: Corporate Controller
- some other ones!
Outside of research, I try to make things that make research easier:
- I built the Finance Practice's central content analytics dashboard to replace an Excel-based process I hate with my entire soul
- Developed automations and mini web-apps for operational processes (scrapers, scripts, dashboards, etc!)
- Experiment with & share GenAI and LLM uses for research, e.g. lit, client voice, hypothesis review, drafting, revision, feedback, etc (if curious, please ask!)
I am also the official "data" guy and increasingly-official "AI" guy for Everyday Canvassing, a community engagement non-profit in Montgomery County, Maryland.
That's meant lots of GIS, text mining, data visualization, pipeline development, and, recently, AI-development (okok fine it's vibe-coding). Check 'projects' for examples, I'm currently working on:
- OpenCanvas: An open-source CRM for canvassing and community engagement. The hope/dream is to fully replace miniVAN/Votebuilder for all our canvassing needs. Prototyping!
- Housing Code Violation Project: Under wraps for a bit longer, but my portion analyzes patterns in housing code violations for big apartments in Montgomery County using public data.
- Abundance & Affordability Research: This one's just for fun, mainly lit reviews & data viz re: policies that help get good places built. [I am transparently biased: involuntary, unnecessary administrative burdens burden my soul and I hope to eradicate them from this earth, and from permitting!]
A secret, third thing? Who knows!