Cole Simmons

Selected Work

01
Co-Founder & CTO 2016 – 2022

AbstractCRE

abstractcre.com

Enterprise document AI platform for commercial real estate teams: structured extraction (from leases, loan docs, income statements, etc.) + reporting, with data linked back to their source. I led full-stack product and engineering.

Technical
PDF source grounding, old-school ML/NLP extraction + classification (LSTM-based at the time), document annotation/review workflows, reporting surfaces, search, exporting, Zapier integration
Stack
React · Python (FastAPI + Pydantic) · custom ML / NLP architecture · PostgreSQL · Google Cloud · microservices
02
Co-founder 2024 – present

AI-first LaTeX editor for academic writing. Decided that if I was embarking on a lifetime of writing papers, I should build the editor I want. (I really despise Overleaf.) Put on hold for the MPhil.

Technical
Browser editor architecture, LaTeX compilation flow, CRDT, real-time collaboration
Stack
Elixir · Phoenix · LiveView · PostgreSQL · Claude integration
03
Creator 2024 – present

Cuneiforge

Study and research tool for cuneiform texts, keeping transliteration, translation notes, and sign-level observations together.

Technical
domain-specific modeling, robust Anki sync CLI
Stack
TypeScript (Express + Zod) · React · SQLite