Finance · Research · Seattle
Nick Barran
Finance student at UW Foster focused on wealth management and building clearer financial tools.
Featured research · 2026
The Circular AI Capital Map
An interactive map of who is financing the AI buildout, built from company announcements and SEC filings. The question it asks is how much of the money committed comes back to the company that supplied it.
The diagram shows the pattern the project looks for. A chip vendor invests in a model lab, the lab commits spending to a cloud provider, and that provider buys hardware from the vendor that started the sequence. Measuring how much of the buildout actually runs this way is the point of the ledger. So far, most of the disclosed value does not.
Selected work
- Trading Comparables Generator2026A command-line tool that turns live public-market data into trading comps, valuation scenarios, and formatted Excel or CSV output.Python · yfinance · pandas · Excel
- StockAnalysis.com Scraper2026A desktop application that downloads company statements and market data into organized Excel workbooks or CSV files.Python · tkinter · pandas · Beautiful Soup
Currently
- Building the Circular AI Capital Map dataset
- Preparing for CFA Level I
- Studying finance at UW Foster