SapientTech.dev About
I’m Erik Benjaminson. I wrote my first software at twelve, a database of every monster in the D&D Monster Manual, built on an Apple IIe. Four decades later, the technology changed. The kid didn’t.
My career has covered ground most people split across three lifetimes: classical French culinary training, a U.S. Coast Guard Master’s license earned on tugboats in the Bering Sea, a decade at Microsoft during the platform wars, and a venture-backed startup that built mobile internet applications seven years before the iPhone.
Today I’m the founder of Sapient Technology Group, an applied AI lab where I design and build AI-native systems. Production-grade multi-agent architectures with the governance to back them up. I also built Culinary Explorer, a conversational cooking education platform — the place where four decades of software and three years of classical French culinary training finally collide. I believe the people who know how to build should be the ones deciding how AI builds, and that taste is the one thing you can’t automate.
Based in the Pacific Northwest. Two sons, one very opinionated dog, and a motorcycle habit I have no intention of fixing.
Sapere Aude: dare to know.