AI Founder & CEO
Michael Frank
Building and leading companies for the agentic era.
Executive Profile
Michael Frank is an AI founder and CEO building companies for the agentic era. He is the founder of Seldon Strategies, a developer of AI-native products across consumer software, enterprise operations, media, and gaming. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Radiant Intel, an agentic intelligence platform for geopolitical risk, macroeconomic analysis, and technology policy.
Michael's work spans company formation, product strategy, commercialization, and the deployment of agentic AI in real-world markets. He focuses on how autonomous software is changing what companies can build, how organizations operate, and where entirely new categories of products and services can emerge.
He also writes and speaks about AI competition, emerging technology, and the changing relationship between technology, international politics, and economics.
Leadership Focus
Company Formation
Identifying markets where agentic AI can support entirely new products, services, and business models.
Product Strategy
Turning emerging AI capabilities into focused products with clear users, differentiated value, and paths to market.
AI Deployment
Moving agentic systems out of demonstrations and into real-world operating environments across industries.
Technology & Power
Analyzing how AI changes international competition, economic power, corporate strategy, and public policy.
Selected Writing
Seldon Strategies
Why Agentic AI Is Different
Why the defining opportunity in agentic AI is enablement rather than simple automation.
Radiant Intel
AI, China, and Leverage
A strategy for treating technological interdependence as a source of geopolitical leverage.
Radiant Intel
America's Real AI Advantage Is in Ecosystems
Why AI competition depends on platforms, adoption, and technical ecosystems—not only chips and models.
Background
Before becoming a founder, Michael was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he focused on AI and emerging technology policy. Earlier, he led the Economist Intelligence Unit's Asia technology and geopolitics policy research.
He holds a master's degree in public policy from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree in international relations and economics from Colgate University.