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David Weinstein

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David is a strategist, builder, and systems thinker focused on helping ambitious people make sense of complexity and lead with clarity. His work sits at the intersection of AI, knowledge graphs, and organizational design, always in service of enabling smarter decisions and deeper insight.
Before starting KayOS, David was the Chief of Staff at the NEAR Foundation, where he worked on ecosystem design, governance, and decision-making frameworks for emerging networks. He's advised startups, built intelligence systems for high-agency operators, and studied everything from political philosophy to ancient wisdom to understand how people and systems evolve.
David's mission is to build tools that help people think better, act faster, and stay aligned in a world of growing complexity.

Experience

Co-founder and CEO
KayOS
Sep 2024 - Present
Building contextual infrastructure and custom agents for AI-native organizations.
Advisor and Investor
KDC
Feb 2019 - Present
beondeck.com, magicmind.co, exploremar.co, makerwine.com, sportsicon.co, dope.dog, braid.co, others in stealth
Near Foundation
Chief of Staff to the CEO
Jan 2022 - May 2024
- Member of Leadership Team; responsible for internal operations, strategy, prioritization, internal / external comms, and ecosystem analytics. - Led the Analytics team to keep the pulse on the NEAR ecosystem, quantitatively and qualitatively, to inform both internal stakeholders and the general public. - Deep understanding of the needs and priorities of key ecosystem nodes while maintaining clear, coherent communication externally.
Head of BizOps & Analytics
On Deck
Jan 2019 - Mar 2022
Business Operations and analysis
Head of Analytics
Circle
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
Head of Analytics
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David Weinstein

From Bottlenecks to Leverage: Re-architecting Scaleup Operations with AI Agents

Part 4 in a 4-part series on intelligent agents in fintech This is the final article in our series on how AI agents are transforming fintech operations. We’ve explored how lean teams are scaling with agents instead of headcount, how data chaos can be turned into structured context, and how embedded governance enables safe autonomy. Now we turn to ...

03 July 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

David Weinstein

Agents in the Loop: Rethinking Risk, Compliance and Governance with AI

This article is the third in my four-part series exploring how intelligent agents are reshaping the foundations of fintech operations. In Part 1, we looked at why the smartest fintechs are scaling not by growing headcount, but by building with agents. These systems aren’t just automating tasks – they’re giving lean teams enterprise-grade levera...

27 June 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

David Weinstein

Beyond Dashboards: Turning Fintech Data Chaos into Structured Context

The data problem faced by many Fintech’s isn’t scarcity, it’s chaos - too much scattered information, and not enough meaning. Customer notes are stashed in Notion. Key metrics sit in Looker. Compliance lives in dense PDFs. Slack channels hold buried insights. Internal docs reflect half-written strategies no one remembers updating. Multiply this ac...

19 June 2025 Artificial Intelligence

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