I find minds fascinating, carbon or silicon. These days that means AI: building agents, looking inside models, and forecasting where it’s all going.

Right now I lead AI at IndustrialEnet. Before that I founded StrawPoll.vote and grew it to 1M+ monthly users, and built software at SoFi, MarketDial, AidKit, and SilkAi. M.S. in Artificial Intelligence (UT Austin, 2026), B.S. in Mathematics (University of Utah).

I’m looking for my next role in AI: AI safety and evaluations, applied AI / forward-deployed work, or forecasting research. Reach me at prestonbjensen@gmail.com.

Projects

  • takeoff.watch

    Weekly AI forecasts for concrete, checkable questions about the next five years of AI: AI doing AI research, loss of control, alignment, US–China, and more. Each week a fresh model run researches every question and gives a probability for each quarter-end; a validation step blocks inconsistent forecasts, and every forecast publishes its reasoning.

  • Deskmate

    In progress, not public yet

    A desktop app for running autonomous Claude agents with more control and monitorability. Each agent gets its own virtual machine, apps, and accounts, never your computer. A network layer controls what each agent can reach, with per-agent budgets and pause, stop, or take over at any time.

Writing