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GREG JONES
Building systems that compound.
Family Office · Venture Capital · Automation
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Greg Jones runs a single family office as an AI-native operating system: a fleet of scheduled agents that prepare work, monitored by heartbeats and dead-man switches, with every consequential decision reserved for a person.
He is President and CEO of SWS Venture Capital and the founder of TailYield. Before that he spent roughly a decade in financial services at Morgan Stanley, UBS, and in the RIA space, focused on asset management, portfolio construction, and risk analysis for high-net-worth individuals and institutions.
He publishes the specification layer for that work publicly, and writes weekly about what small organizations can borrow from institutions.
Operating principles
- Build leverage before scale.
- Automate the repeatable.
- Preserve optionality.
- Compound quietly.
- Measure what matters.
- Remove friction relentlessly.
Capital
Capital is not the asset. Judgment is.
Systems exist to preserve, deploy, and compound both. Allocation is a sequence of reversible and irreversible decisions, and the discipline is knowing which is which.
The same division applies here as everywhere else in the operation. Machines assemble the file, check it against a written standard, and surface what is missing. They do not score, rank, or recommend, because an output that functions as a verdict is a decision wearing a costume.
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Contact
The best way to follow the work is the essays. They go out weekly and cover what is actually running, including what failed.
Direct email is open. If you are writing about something you are building, three sentences on what it does and what is hard about it is plenty. Replies are not guaranteed and are never fast.