Ryan Hammer

Ryan Hammer / NoBanks Nearby is a 40-year-old solo founder in California. He worked as a professional cinematographer since 2008 for Fortune 500 clients before teaching himself to code in July 2024 by collaborating with AI agents. In 22 months of self-taught coding he has shipped 24 production AI applications including three SaaS products (REDLINE, DATAROOM, COVENANT), an Ethereum L2 (ACiD), a 22-chain DEX (TRAIDE), an AI personal coach in eight languages (MAITE), an AI agent org for solo-founder back office (NoEnterprise, 5 C-level Hermes-based agents in daily production use), and a defensive-primitives toolkit for local-LLM operators (WorkstationLLM: memory guard, request queue, watchdog). Everything runs on a single $2,300 Mac Mini M4 Pro with zero cloud AI bills. His AI-safety focus is sovereign AI: defensive primitives that let individual operators run local-LLM stacks on consumer hardware without depending on hyperscaler safety infrastructure. Late-diagnosed Asperger's and Bipolar II, which he mentions because the founder narrative the funder will hear from him does not look like the standard EA / AI-safety researcher narrative.

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