✦ Chicago · Operator, Writer, Architect of agentic systems

LARRY F
GORDON.

Design, Build, Ship.

Extracting value from data for over a decade. I work where culture, industry, and data meet — usually with Claude in the Clouds. I put the analysis in public and ship apps that prove the thesis.

✦ Ask Frankly

Ask Frankly.

Questions about jobs, prices, rates, and growth, answered from the Federal Reserve's FRED data with the numbers, the caveats, and a citation you can check. Pick a pattern and fill in the blanks.

Build a question

Fill in every blank to ask.

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✦ Video

Frankly, data.

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Sep 6, 2026

What Is Data, If Not the Moments of Your Life?

How the Netflix Algorithm Really Works (From a Data Strategist)

You Don't Own Your Data. You're Leasing It.

✦ Apps you can try

Built & interactive.

Not screenshots — working tools. Each one turns data into something a person actually uses. Tap in and play with it.

AppLive
Poised Pages

Poised Pages

Bookstagram, turned into an owned storefront

AppLive
FranklyData

FranklyData

Your streaming data, made readable

AppIn testing
TradesOn

TradesOn

Home-services marketplace, launching July

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✦ Work with me

Let’s build
something.

Tell me what you’re working on — data, agents, or a thorny business question. I read every note.

me@larryfgordon.com