Yoel Gal

About

I'm a developer and founder splitting time between London and San Francisco. Previously a software engineer at Airbus Defence & Space, and completing my Computer Science degree at the University of Manchester.

I build things that ship. Right now I'm building better-dev, an open harness of portable dev practices that run inside the coding agent you already use, and papers.town, a Letterboxd for research papers where every paper you log becomes a building in a small 8-bit town that grows with your library. Before that I co-founded torch0, a supplier-side carbon accounting tool that turns real operational data into signed, auditor-verifiable receipts for enterprise Scope 3 emissions; we raised over $10k in equity-free funding before winding it down. I also co-founded Digested AI, an AI content curation platform with paying subscribers, and along the way built ML APIs handling 10,000+ daily requests, embedded C firmware for a Formula Student electric racecar, and projects across the full stack.

Soon I'll be co-authoring a research paper on using AI agents to accelerate advanced materials discovery. More on that coming soon.

I think a lot about ontology: how systems model what they operate on, and why getting the representation right matters before the automation.

I care about tools that are decoupled, model-agnostic, and open. I believe in shipping fast, because momentum fixes most things.

Projects

• better-dev
  Portable dev practices, packaged as skills that run inside the coding agent you already use. Scope work into observable contracts, isolate changes in git worktrees, and drive them to done through autonomous verification loops. Current focus.
  Agent Tooling Open Source
• papers.town
  Letterboxd for research papers. Log, rate, and review what you read, and each paper becomes a building in a small 8-bit town that grows as your library does. Wander it, visit other readers, and follow the ones worth trusting.
  Research Community
• torch0
  Replace estimates with receipts. Supplier-side carbon accounting that converts real operational data into signed, auditor-verifiable receipts for enterprise Scope 3 disclosure under CSRD, IFRS S2, and SB 253. Raised over $10k in equity-free funding. Co-founder. No longer active.
  Climate Carbon Accounting
• Digested AI
  AI-powered content curation platform. Personalized news digests delivered to your inbox. Co-founded, built end-to-end from idea to revenue.
  Next.js OpenAI Stripe

Connect

• GitHub
• LinkedIn
• Email