Chris Baker
Co-founder, COO & Head of Ai @Further
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WORK HISTORY
Co-founder, COO & Head of Ai @Further
Cambridge, MA, US
Further is an AI-powered fintech transforming how first-time buyers understand and navigate the homebuying process. We deliver instant clarity on affordability, payment trade-offs, and mortgage options by helping buyers make confident decisions while keeping agents and lenders aligned from first conversation to closing.As Co-Founder, COO & Head of AI, I own both the operational engine and the AI architecture that powers our platform.AI & Technical Leadership- Architected our production AI agent: a multi-agent system built on LangChain/LangGraph with a supervisor pattern orchestrating specialized agents for real estate guidance, mortgage analysis, and personalized action planning- Designed the full AI infrastructure stack: OpenAI integration, Pinecone amd Redis vector search for semantic retrieval, Firebase/Firestore persistent memory, Redis caching and checkpointing, all deployed on GCP Cloud Run- Built our analytics platform from the ground up: Jitsu event pipeline → BigQuery → Dataform (68 transformations, 33 data quality assertions), processing ~5M events/month across ~50K conversations- Established multi-model evaluation and routing practices to stay on the frontier as foundation models evolveOperational Leadership- Drive day-to-day execution across product, engineering, design, and customer success- Lead go-to-market strategy, brokerage/lender partnerships, and multi-state regulatory compliance (licensed broker in FL, GA, AL, NC, SC, DC, MA)- Oversee financial planning, budgeting, and runway management through a unified data infrastructure connecting Ramp, QuickBooks, Justworks, SVB, and Carta into BigQuery- Recruit and build a cross-functional team driven by curiosity, rigor, and speed
EDUCATION
University of Florida - Warrington College of Business
MS, Real Estate
Emory University
BA, Mathematics & Economics
University of Virginia Darden School of Business
MBA, Concentrations in Asset Management, Corporate Finance / Investment Banking, and Sustainability
SKILLS
ABOUT CHRIS BAKER
I\'ve been building with AI since 2020, before ChatGPT, before the hype cycle. I started with GPT-3 integrations at Knox Financial and evolving into the multi-agent, multi-model architectures I design today. I\'m not an AI tourist. I write production code daily, architect infrastructure, and ship systems that compound. At Further, I\'m Co-Founder, COO & Head of AI. We\'re building the AI homebuying coach that helps first-time buyers go from curiosity to confident decision-making. I architected our AI agent infrastructure from scratch: a multi-agent system built on LangChain and LangGraph with a supervisor pattern that orchestrates specialized agents for affordability modeling, mortgage trade-off analysis, and personalized action plans, all backed by vector search (Redis/Pinecone), persistent memory (Firestore), and a real-time analytics platform processing ~5M events/month through BigQuery and Dataform. Beyond Further, I run a personal AI homelab that keeps me on the bleeding edge. I built and operate OpenClaw, a multi-channel AI gateway that routes conversations across multiple messaging channels (WhatsApp, Slack, iMessage, email, and Discord) through a unified agent framework with 20+ custom plugins. My homelab runs local inference on Apple Silicon, multi-model task routing across GPT-5, Claude, DeepSeek, and Grok, and a fleet monitoring system with 114+ health checks. I build in the open because the best way to understand where AI is going is to live inside it every day. The through-line of my career is applying technology to industries that resist it. I grew up in Palo Alto taking apart PCs and coding in the \'80s, built websites during the first internet wave in the \'90s, then spent almost 10 years in real estate. I earned a Master\'s in Real Estate, broker licenses in seven states, and deep operational experience from commercial development through the 2008 crisis. After my MBA at Darden (where I met my co-founder Kevin on day one), I led consumer product and analytics at Bank of America and Banco Santander, helped take EverQuote public while running its largest business line ($250M+ revenue), and built products at multiple proptech startups through acquisition and beyond. Homeownership changes lives. AI will reshape how people make life\'s biggest financial decisions. I\'m building at the intersection of both, and the agent stays at the center.
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