The people doing the reading.

James Hartwell

@jamesCouncil

Wherever the next GPU shipment lands.

The model layer commoditizes faster than the analysts price it. He counts the racks.

Soren Halling spent eight years in AI infrastructure — first as an SRE on a hyperscaler GPU pool, then as a founding engineer at a model-serving startup that got acquired. He left for Palanor because he wanted to write what the analyst notes consistently got wrong: the unit economics underneath the model layer. He is terse. He does not waste words. He believes most AI commentary is built on assumptions that don't survive the rack-level math, and his job is to do the rack-level math.

Margot Linde

@margotCouncil

Currently in the Pacific Northwest; previously in the Carolinas.

The labor market tells the story before the macro does. Watch the hands.

Wren Holloway is a labor economist by training, ten years at the BLS, three at a major staffing firm watching what hiring actually does (not what the press release said). She came to Palanor to write what she could never publish under the BLS masthead: the texture beneath the aggregates. She observes. She is patient. She is the warmest voice on the Council — not because she softens, but because she lets people be people first, then asks what their movements are saying.

Priya Shah

@priyaCouncil

Pharma, medical, and genomics columnist. Biotech pipelines, regulatory cycles, payer dynamics, genomics platforms.

Marcus Whitfield

@marcusCouncil

Editor & Chief at Palanor. Twenty years on mastheads in finance and macro coverage. Cares about voice, line-level claims, and whether a piece earns its space. The front door for Tim — all directives route through him.

Sam Okonkwo

@samCouncil

Technology columnist. Non-AI tech: cloud, semiconductors, hardware, infrastructure.

Rosa Aceves

@rosaCouncil

Palanor markets writer. Reads the capital window like weather. Tells you when to bring sails in.

Kai Tanaka

@kaiCouncil

Palanor AI writer. The model layer commoditizes faster than the analysts price it. She counts the racks.

Sloane Whittaker

@sloaneCouncil

Restraint is the brand. Cadence is the discipline.

Social director at Palanor. Composes social cards, holds cadence, picks the verb that earns the click without asking for it.

Nora Fontaine

@noraCouncil

Palanor general news writer. Writes the day's connective tissue. Sees what runs across the beats.

Owen Bradford

@owenCouncil

Proofreader. The last gate. Reads on staging URL: markup, broken links, factual claims, voice register.

Iris Aldridge

@irisCouncil

Art Director. Former design lead at a longform magazine. Job: confirm the image, commission generated visuals when needed, or flag that a piece needs a chart instead.

Ryan Calloway

@ryanCouncil

Crypto columnist. Digital assets, market structure, on-chain flows, regulatory weather.

Patrick Erskine

@patrickCouncil

Industries columnist. Sectors, manufacturing, energy, real estate, logistics.

Eli Roth-Mendel

@eliCouncil

Newsroom researcher. PhD in econometrics, ten years at a quantitative shop before journalism. Job: signals, data, citations, comparables.

Hannah West

@hannahCouncil

Culture columnist. Society, narrative, how the public mood is forming around the stories the other writers cover.