allen chen

Tested Claude, GPT, Gemini, and other china open-source models on real HP tasks, then told them which ones to buy and how to negotiate the deal
Built a version-control system for prompts so the team's AI outputs only get better over time — nothing ships unless it passes eval
Designed a step-by-step adoption path for non-technical teams, because the best AI tool is useless if nobody knows how to us

Led the company-wide AI transformation — decided where agents should enter the business, built the infrastructure, and got the whole team using it.

Made company data (portfolio, research, ops) accessible to agents through CLI/API, not just humans through dashboards. This is the foundation everything else runs on

Built a tool where mentors can talk to an agent to research their portfolio companie

Log triage: a continuous error monitoring system that catches pipeline failures, diagnoses what went wrong, and re-runs the failed job in a sandbox until it self-heals — then pings the team on Feishu only when human attention is actually needed

Cost tracking: connects to Alibaba Cloud, traces every dollar of cloud spend back to the exact data item that caused it, and flags anomalies automatically

Rewrote the company story from scratch, cold-emailed 50+ global VCs. 5 replied, 2 entered due diligence.

establishing vc and business literacy knowledge database for college students and recent grads interested in Entrepreneurship, which meant to increase their primary understanding of vc industries. As similar to what YC is doing, this knowledge database is also working for increasing the quality of potential portfolios by educating potential candidates with essencial knowledge of how to do a good

social pro-bonal project for helping underrepresented students breaking into consulting

I lead multiple entrepreneurs peer advisory groups in China and US for leaders of company-of-one or small startups who are committed to both personal and business growth.

Managed daily operations for a community of 1500+ paid users
Designed and implemented regular member-exclusive newsletters and organized internal and external guest speaker events within the community
Conducted user behavior analysis using the RFM model, and designed retention strategies resulting in increasing monthly customer retention rate from 30% to 45%
Led user experience design for a career

Conducted thorough research on addiction treatment options, specifically the Sinclair Method.
Designed and conducted experiments to test the efficacy of the Sinclair Method in treating addiction, including behavioral addictions such as sex and internet addiction.
Analyzed data from experiments and studies to draw a conclusion that the Sinclair Method can effectively treat not only alcohol addict

Organized the first-ever Asia-Pacific SA8000 supplier training program in Chinese and English, covering 108 suppliers across five time zones. Successfully trained 108 suppliers from Asia-Pacific, resulting in an increase in supplier compliance by 80%.
Established a supplier information database using Python and SQL, which automatically tracked supplier participation and sent follow-up emails based

Formulated 3 competitive analyses by 35 consolidated reports on the Education Tech Industry;
Supported the design of an online educational course with 500+ enrolled students ;
Assisted product managers with cross-functional project management for new product development;
Drafted learning outcome assessment for 3 clients.

Transferred to Minerva for a more intimate community of creative individuals

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