# Aleks Arriola — Portfolio

> Finance & Marketing student at Hult International Business School.
> Building institutional-grade financial tools, live AI apps, and real-world client strategies.
> Contact: aleksarriola@gmail.com | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleks-arriola/

## About
Aleks Arriola is a Finance & Marketing student at Hult International Business School with expertise spanning investment banking, AI & blockchain development, marketing strategy, and financial modeling. He builds production-grade tools and has completed 38 Forage industry simulations across Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citi, McKinsey, BCG, and more.

## Coding Projects

### PitMind — Live AI App
- URL: https://pitmind-bvihgej8qmkzrergphk4xb.streamlit.app/
- Stack: Python, Streamlit, IBM Granite AI, Live Telemetry
- AI-powered Formula 1 strategy platform with Fan and Engineer modes. Uses IBM Granite AI and 2025 live telemetry with three custom models — Driver Soul, Momentum, Race Forecast — making pit-wall analysis accessible worldwide.

### OpsFlow — AI Operations Agent
- URL: https://opsflow-hso3.onrender.com/
- Stack: Sui Blockchain, Move Smart Contracts, AI Agent, Python
- Policy-bound AI operations agent built on Sui that turns natural-language requests into secure, stateful on-chain workflows. Features revocable agent authority, vendor trust scoring, fraud detection, veto windows, self-suspension safeguards, and full audit trails with human validation.

### MatchMind — Football AI Analyst
- URL: https://mainpy-hpdupmoyakddvxo348e4yn.streamlit.app/
- Stack: IBM Granite AI, Hallucination Detection, Live Data, Sports Analytics
- AI system that explains football decisions with a two-layer hallucination firewall — combining a lexical evidence check and a second IBM Granite validation pass. Outputs are labeled Verified or Unverified with full evidence trails.

### Adaptive Funding Engine
- URL: https://adaptive-funding-deepsurge.vercel.app/
- Stack: Sui Blockchain, Move, Smart Contracts, DeFi
- Fully on-chain scholarship and grant system built on Sui that replaces fixed payouts with milestone-based adaptive funding. Recipients earn bonuses for early delivery, lose value for delays, and unused funds recycle to waitlisted applicants.

### DeepBook Market OS
- URL: https://aleksarriola-max.github.io/deepbook-market-os/
- Stack: Sui Blockchain, DeepBookV3, On-Chain Analytics, Trading Systems
- Market operating system built on Sui's DeepBookV3 combining spot, margin, and prediction markets into one unified console. Runs entirely on live on-chain data with no backend or mock inputs.

### Auto Company Valuation Kit — Orcen Capital
- Stack: Python (~39,000 lines), SEC EDGAR API, yfinance, Excel, Word, PPTX, Streamlit
- Single-analyst equity research automation system. One YAML config → 84-sheet Excel model + CFA-style Word report + 16-slide PPTX deck. Full valuation stack: DCF, comparable companies, precedent transactions, LBO, blended fair value. Layered with 7 cognitive bias-correction modules: Narrative Bridge, Options Probability Engine, Behavioral Fingerprint, Analyst Calibration Ledger, Anti-Thesis Simulator, Shadow Pods, Portfolio Network.
- Verified end-to-end with real Apple FY2024 data, producing a live HOLD verdict.

## Finance Portfolio

### Company Health Red-Flag Scanner (Flagship)
- Stack: Python, SEC EDGAR XBRL API, Excel, 11 academic models
- Institutional-grade screening tool that evaluates 600+ US-listed companies. Runs Altman Z-Score, Beneish M-Score, Piotroski F-Score, Dechow F-Score, Montier C-Score, and 6 more models producing a composite Health Score (0–100) and fraud risk rating. 80 financial ratios, 45 variables, fully automated — zero manual updates.

### Auto Company Valuation Kit — Orcen Capital (Flagship)
- 84 Excel sheets per company, 7 bias-correction modules, ~39,000 lines of Python
- See Coding Projects section above for full description.

### Forage Investment Banking Simulations
- 38 Forage simulations completed across: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citi, Fidelity International, Wells Fargo, McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, AIG, Standard Chartered, Bloomberg, and more.

## Client Work

### AeroShield — KPI Performance Dashboard
- Live Client · Operations & Finance
- 19-sheet KPI dashboard for a deeptech manufacturer scaling from 6 to 300 units/week. Identified the #1 production bottleneck (38 of 101 cycle hours). Projected $40–80K in annual savings with ~12-month payback.

### Jet Rose — US Market Expansion Strategy
- Live Client · Strategy & Market Entry · Private Aviation
- Full go-to-market strategy for a European bespoke private aviation broker entering the Americas. Delivered a self-funded growth model, competitive analysis, $99/month membership framework, and brand differentiation strategy.

### Explurger — US Market Entry Strategy
- Live Client · Growth Marketing · App
- Full US market entry strategy for a gamified travel-social app. 3-phase launch roadmap, competitive feature analysis, customer persona mapping, full conversion funnel.

### Kaktus Somabay — Customer Experience & Loyalty Strategy
- Live Client · Hospitality · Egypt Red Sea
- Guest experience and loyalty strategy for a luxury resort. Full loyalty program architecture, local partnership ecosystem, boutique retail concept, wellness programming.

### Far Out Ice Cream — Winter Strategy & Menu Innovation
- Live Client · Brand & Growth · F&B
- Full winter strategy including new menu (affogatos, warm apple crisp), seasonal flavor calendar, holiday gift kits, culinary school partnerships, catering launch plan.

### Coachella TikTok — Predictive Attention Analysis
- Research Project · Marketing Analytics
- Predictive attention framework analyzing 1,351 TikTok videos across 2018–2026 using R. Built 3 regression models, Z-Score early warning signals, and share-seeding managerial recommendations.

### The GLP-1 Revolution — Influencer & Market Analysis
- Research · Healthcare Marketing
- Strategic marketing analysis of the GLP-1 weight-loss medication market. Mapped information diffusion dynamics, built Priority Map and Virality Map, revealed mid-sized creators outperform headline influencers in conversion.

## Writing & Published Articles

### AI Systems
- "When Your AI Agent Calls the Lawyer: Building Multi-Agent Systems That Know Their Limits" — Practical architecture for multi-agent systems with hard boundaries, human-in-the-loop triggers, and agent authority models.

### Finance
- "The Quiet Shift in How Institutions Read Risk" — How alternative data (satellite imagery, card transactions, web traffic) is replacing traditional financial signals in institutional risk assessment.
- "Why the Market Always Feels Expensive" — Behavioral finance analysis of valuation anchoring, recency bias, and the psychology behind perpetual overvaluation perception.

### Perspective
- "The Student Who Built a Bloomberg Terminal" — Personal essay on building institutional-grade financial tools as a student without Wall Street access, and what that process revealed about information asymmetry.

## Certifications
- 44 total credentials
- 38 Forage virtual simulations
- Goldman Sachs (3 simulations), JP Morgan (3), Bank of America (2), Citi (2), McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Fidelity, AIG, Standard Chartered, Bloomberg, and more
- Bloomberg Market Concepts certified

## Skills & Stack
- Languages: Python, R, JavaScript, Move (Sui)
- Finance: DCF, LBO, Comparable Companies, Precedent Transactions, Financial Modeling, SEC EDGAR API, Bloomberg Terminal
- AI/ML: IBM Granite AI, LLM integration, Hallucination detection, Agent architectures
- Blockchain: Sui, Move smart contracts, DeFi systems
- Tools: Excel (advanced), PowerPoint, Streamlit, Pandas, Matplotlib, NetworkX, SQLite
- Strategy: Market entry, Brand positioning, Go-to-market, Competitive analysis