VivaMetrix

About

Mike Lazarus

30+ years building models that make real decisions, at volume, in production.

My work started in credit, fraud and identity, where a model approves loans, stops fraudulent transactions or decides whether two records are the same person, and every error has a cost. That work taught a discipline that carries straight into today's AI systems: test on real data before launch, measure accuracy honestly, monitor after deployment, and fix what drifts.

Today I build AI agents, LLM applications and quantitative models, and I advise companies and investors on where AI will and won't pay off.

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Areas of experience

Credit risk

Scoring models that approve or decline at scale

Fraud detection

Finding rare events in high-volume data

Identity resolution

Matching records about the same person across messy sources

Targeted marketing

Response and propensity models that decide who to contact

Quantitative modeling

Systematic models for financial markets

Production systems and AI agents

Models and agents deployed, monitored and maintained