Joshua Hegstad

Co-Founder

Building an AI history company.

Full stack AI and AR engineer. Computer Science at Columbia University.

Selected work

Debt Vulture preview

Debt Vulture

Bankruptcy intelligence platform for distressed debt investors. Monitors PACER filings in real time, extracts structured data from legal documents, and maps affected public companies. First paying customer is a hedge fund.

Next.jsPythonSupabasePACERCourtListener
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AlignEd

Two-sided AI education platform where teachers manage classrooms and assignments, and learners turn course materials into shareable study artifacts. Sole engineer, built as a Research Assistant at Columbia.

Next.jsTypeScriptAI
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Simetic

Multi-agent simulation laboratory. AI agents carry persistent memory, form insights through reflection, and negotiate under enforced information asymmetry.

Next.jsPythonLangGraphFastAPIAWS FargateMCP
NASA SUITS preview

NASA SUITS

Scaled a team to 20 engineers and built an AR astronaut guidance system tested at Johnson Space Center with NASA engineers.

UnityC#HoloLens 2Snap Spectacles
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NLP Hallucination Mitigation preview

NLP Hallucination Mitigation

Three-stage pipeline reducing LLM hallucinations in closed-book QA. It reached 97.5% precision in hallucination detection and improved Selective F1 from 0.50 to 0.70.

PythonPyTorchHuggingFaceLoRA/QLoRARL
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