Derek Brown

🇺🇸 • founder & ceo, @americanspend • indexing American commerce • previously addepar, linkedin • fly eagles fly

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

@corbpage Agents should be able to advertise resources they have (API tokens, credits, compute, etc.).

Other agents would pay to access those resources instead of booking directly if it meant no subscription or recurring costs, etc.

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

Happy Veterans Day, everyone! 🇺🇸

If you served, or are currently serving, thank you for your service.

Very cool data from @americanspend in honor of our veterans, who seem to be holding it down for Maverik and SiriusXM.

PS. I had to look this up: Maverik is a gas station chain.

[American Spend @americanspend]

In honor of Veterans Day, we ranked the brands USAA and AAFES customers were likelier to shop at than the average cardholder.

[American Spend @americanspend]

@artemis on what AI customers buy, using our data:

[American Spend @americanspend]

@byPredicted’s Q3 report on prediction markets, using our data:

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

Proud that @americanspend data is behind some of the great insights in the newly published report on prediction markets from @byPredicted.

It's a fascinating look at an emerging industry using our model of the American economy.

[Pet @PetBerisha]

We just launched an incredibly comprehensive prediction market report over on @byPredicted

Recommend checking it out! 👇

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

seems dope… but what does the NBA commissioner know about investing in infrastructure

[Max Segall @segall_max]

First US state leveraging crypto rails and Privy wallets

MAJOR props to my friend @AdamTSilver for working tirelessly to bring this use case to life

Bullish Alaska

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

@apex_ether @Veildotcash Great run, Apex. Rooting for whatever you choose to do next.

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

Our friends at @artemis with a great look at AI usage and consumer spending. Check it out:

[Artemis @artemis]

Does your AI usage reveal your spending profile? We crunched the data from @americanspend

- @McDonalds x @OpenAI partnership next? @OpenAI customers over index on @McDonalds
- @AnthropicAI customers eat a lot of @WholeFoods

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[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

@Shaughnessy119 You can use the @americanspend MCP server! We’re building an open model of the American economy.

Get started here: https://t.co/QaOtlVpZd5

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

@JackStrawFM no but seems like folks like @mjc716 are tackling

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

Emails to humans will be functionally dead as a communication channel over the next 3 years.

Cross-agent communication will replace it.

“Have your people contact my people” for everyone.

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

@mj41Fantastican Send a carrier pigeon if you really need to reach me.

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

@vladtenev https://t.co/alGch7HtUh

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

@alexadelman We're very fortunate.

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

@whatdoteth @americanspend South Bay meetings all day :(

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

I’m in the San Francisco Bay Area for the first half of this week!

Want to catch up or chat @americanspend?

DMs open.

[Derek Brown @derekbrown]

The more you look at the Bucs’ box score, the less sense it makes.

[Stabledash @stabledash]

“Until you have something like Google’s PageRank, you can’t really make sense of [the internet].”

How does @americanspend turn raw card data into something you can query, with Founder & CEO @derekbrown

[Stabledash @stabledash]

“We’re building a real-time model of the American economy.”

@americanspend’s model combines card spending, census data and CPI, so people can “build on it, query it, discover things about the American economy.”