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Oliver Buchannon
Ben Turtel

Founder & CEO @ Lightning Rod Labs

Predicting Patient Outcomes From Clinical Notes

Jun 10, 2026

A small AI model, trained on existing hospital notes with no manual labeling, predicts patient outcomes like ventilation, dialysis, and mortality — and runs on a single GPU.

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Forecasting Geopolitical Risk with Foresight Learning

May 29, 2026

A small open model, trained from public news, massively outperforms GPT-5 at predicting military strikes.

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How We Built the #1 AI Forecaster

Apr 2, 2026

Foresight V3 is #1 on Prophet Arena, beating every frontier model. Here's how a small team with a small model outperformed the largest AI models in the world.

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Build a Labeled Forecasting Dataset from Real-World News in 10 Minutes

Feb 10, 2026

Use Lightning Rod to turn real news into a model-ready prediction dataset.

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AI-Driven SEC Risk Prediction: Separating Signal from Noise

Feb 6, 2026

Transform 10-K narratives into calibrated probabilities using Foresight Learning. Outperform general purpose models like GPT-5 with specialized risk prediction.

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Using the Future to Train Prediction Models

Jan 21, 2026

Real world event resolution as a scalable source of supervision

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Foresight-32B Beats Frontier LLMs on Live Polymarket Predictions

Aug 27, 2025

A forward-looking test of AI forecasting performance on live prediction markets

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