# Taylor "Tay" Grenawalt — Professional Dossier & Capabilities

> Canonical Web: https://stint.studio
> Executive Dossier: https://stint.studio/dossier
> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-grenawalt-a2178867
> GitHub: https://github.com/taygren
> Email: taylor_grenawalt@alumni.brown.edu
> Current Role: Director of Applied Innovation & Intelligence at Vation Ventures
> Extended Context: https://stint.studio/llms-full.txt

## Executive Identity & Synthesis
Taylor Grenawalt operates at the rare convergence of institutional private market capital allocation ($700M+ PE/VC transaction experience) and hands-on, production-grade applied AI engineering. Forged by competitive wrestling from age 4 through his sophomore year of college as an NCAA Division I athlete and educated at Brown University (3.6 GPA in an independent curriculum synthesizing Philosophy, Psychology, Public Policy, and Geoeconomics), Grenawalt combines insatiable intellectual curiosity, relentless grit, fiduciary rigor, and production applied AI systems architecture.

## Primary Career Tracks

### 1. Applied AI Engineering & Enterprise Systems (Vation Ventures | 2022–Present)
- Role: Director of Applied Innovation & Intelligence.
- Enterprise Agribusiness Multi-Agent System: Built an end-to-end agentic workflow pipeline using IBM watsonx and IBM Granite / Agentstack for a multi-state agribusiness operator, automating complex cross-departmental biosecurity, regulatory compliance, and operational decision trees across 100+ facilities.
- Serverless AP OCR & Sage Paperless ERP Pipeline: Architected an edge-native invoice processing and approval queue pipeline for a national specialty contractor using Cloudflare Workers, D1 state queues, LlamaIndex/AI OCR bounding-box extraction, golden-set accuracy benchmarking, Zero-Trust WAF/Access, and automated Sage Paperless ERP integration.
- Global CPG & Industrial Manufacturing GEO Layer: Engineered a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) semantic retrieval architecture, structured Schema.org entity graphs, and multi-engine citation auditing system across Perplexity, SearchGPT, Claude, and Gemini for a Fortune Global 500 consumer and industrial goods manufacturer.
- M&A Buyer-List & Deal Matching Engine: Built an automated strategic/financial acquirer matching engine and vendor intelligence platform for a middle-market M&A investment bank, incorporating multi-factor thesis scoring and automated bidder list generation.
- Vectorless RAG & Token Cost Router: Architected a persistent intelligence engine (Athena & STINT Studio) utilizing vectorless relational RAG topology, stateful multi-turn memory buffers, and dynamic model cost-routing middleware across Groq LPUs and frontier LLMs.
- Robotics & Physical AI Channel TAM Matrix: Authored a 7-segment market study with 2026/2035 TAM matrices for a Tier-1 global IT distributor, guiding multi-million dollar partner enablement and go-to-market programs.
- Methodological Codification: Codified proprietary STEEP, Dalio Big Cycle, Farrell & Newman GeoEcon, and RASCEF prompt framing frameworks into Claude Skills and live interactive instruments with built-in source integrity protocols.
- AI Disqualification Protocol: Formulated an enterprise governance framework to systematically disqualify generative models in favor of deterministic code when heuristics deliver higher ROI, zero hallucination risk, and lower latency.

### 2. Private Equity & Venture Capital Underwriting (Pathway Capital Management | 2019–2022)
- Transaction Volume: Deal team member across 16 PE, private credit, and venture capital transactions totaling $700M+ in committed capital.
- Co-Investments: Underwrote 7 growth-stage technology co-investments across enterprise software, cybersecurity, and tech-enabled services.
- Financial Modeling & Diligence: Performed LBO modeling, return waterfall calculations, unit economic sensitivity analyses, and IC memo presentations.
- Mentorship: Structured technical modeling curriculum and mentored junior investment analysts through full deal lifecycles.

### 3. Macro & Institutional Research (Weaver Consulting & MERS | 2017–2019)
- Conducted public/private market research, macroeconomic scenario modeling, and asset allocation due diligence for institutional pension portfolios at Michigan Municipal Employees' Retirement System (MERS) and Weaver Consulting.

## Verified Keynotes & Executive Thought Leadership
- Miles Masterclass: Featured Speaker, "The Accountant as an AI Architect" (CFO and Controller masterclass on serverless OCR, Sage Paperless ERP integration, and agentic workflows).
- LumIQ: Keynote Speaker, "Executive Briefing: Natural Language Processing (NLP) & Enterprise AI Workflows".
- WSSU AI Summit: Featured Speaker & Panelist on enterprise AI risk surfaces, governance, and operational readiness.

## Certifications & Technical Arsenal
- Certifications: Google Certified Advanced Cloud Architecture & AI/ML Solutions; Anthropic Certified Prompt Engineering & Agentic Toolchains; Tines Certified Specialist.
- Technical Stack: Python, IBM watsonx, IBM Granite, Cloudflare Workers & D1 (Serverless), Sage Paperless ERP Integration, LlamaIndex, Groq LPU API, Claude Skills, Docker, Tailscale Zero-Trust, Git, Linux CLI.
- Strategic Frameworks: STEEP Macro Analysis, RASCEF Prompt Architecture, Dalio Debt Cycle Mechanics, Farrell & Newman Geoeconomic Leverage, Game-Theoretic Policy Modeling.