jake handy
what i'm doing now
product managing r&d at pex
running a bi-weekly AI newsletter
building an automatic podcast generator
consulting with misc people about AI and emerging tech
trying to raise a good human
fighting for democracy in Helldivers 2
what i did then
2024 ... put up the Music Distro Labs waitlist
2024 ... worked on new leading AI voice detection tech with pex
2024 ... launched a newsletter exploring AI data analysis
2024 ... helped with a flashcard podcast service
2023 ... uncovered over 1M cases of song infringement with pex
2023 ... worked on novel lyric fingerprinting tech with pex
2023 … led an initiative to partner with The MLC on data matching
2023 … launched a newsletter for AI news and thought leadership
2023 … gave a talk on the state of popular AI products at Data Science Nashville
2023 … built an AI-based music metadata generator
2023 … wrote misc python scripts to source music metadata
2023 … built an AI-based brand brief generator
2022 … taught myself the basics of python and various ML frameworks
2022 … built a database-of-truth at pex
2020 … product managed an online bookseller called aerio
2019 … built an NLP-based book metadata enhancement service
2018 … helped with business analysis for ingram content group
2017 … wrote a book on publishing metadata
2017 … headed up metadata quality for a music metadata engine
2016 … wrote music metadata style guides for MusicBiz
2015 … built a classical distribution engine with a good human
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1992 ... was born
I've advised numerous individuals and large companies on AI and other emerging technologies, leading initiatives on short-term implementations and long-term product strategy.Email me at [email protected].Any work that conflicts with Pex's technology and vision will not be considered.
what they say
Jake built us an AI music tagger from scratch -- helping us realize how simple use of AI can remove blockers and speed up our product delivery.
Mark Montgomery
Entrepreneur, Investor
Jake is a highly talented individual who helped us analyze a new business segment. The work was done in a timely manner, professionally, and with top notch design skills all the while fitting with our business development goals. I highly recommend Jake!
Jorge Brea
CEO, Symphonic
Jake is incredibly efficient and adept at finding novel solutions to complex problems. Nearly a year before AI agents were available to the public, he coded a custom "BrandGPT" for us from scratch, capable of ingesting 10x the normal token count worth of training docs while preventing the data from being used to train outside models. It generated highly specialized creative briefs and branded copy on the spot for pennies, paying for itself 5 times over in cost savings by the end of the quarter.
Ernest Chapman
Founder, notblacklabs