San Francisco
Peter Wen
I build software for accountants. I'm the founder of Tallyfor, which is automating tax, and Perch, an AI-native, agentic accounting platform. Before that I was a historian, a CPA, and the first US product hire at Xero.
Most of what I make is full-stack AI-pilled Clojure.
Outside of that I practice and teach yoga, and I've been researching where the styles taught in America actually came from, and how yoga fits in the history of human movement — which turned into a small archive.
Research on where American yoga comes from: a field guide to the interpretations, a deep dive on the one I trained in, and charts tracing the poses back to their sources. It also turned into a tool — Asana, in Parts composes pose names from 259 Sanskrit words, so a pose does not have to be on a list to have a name.