David F Brochu — Curriculum Vitae

A 35-year track record of identifying structural openings before they were obvious — and building advisory businesses around them.

David Francis Brochu

Laconia, New Hampshire
Phone: 603.490.8921
Email: dbtoasle@gmail.com
Site: deconstructingbabel.com

Professional Profile

Founder, fiduciary advisor, business builder, and independent researcher working at the intersection of Ai alignment, language corruption, institutional decision-making, and human thriving. Career built on identifying structural openings before they became obvious, building high-performing divisions and advisory businesses around them, and translating complexity into practical decision frameworks. Currently building a new fiduciary advisory platform and public research program grounded in real-world advisory practice, thermodynamic systems thinking, and observer-anchored alignment.

Core Areas

Professional Experience

Founder & Author — Deconstructing Babel

2025–Present

• Publishes essays and research on Ai alignment, observer-anchored systems, memory architecture, language corruption, institutional entropy, and constructive human–synthetic collaboration.
• Developing public frameworks: the Stability Equation, Observer Constraint, Telios Protocol, Telios Alignment Ontology (TAO), TM Quotient, OAPMA, and related system-level analyses — all open-source, free for any institution or individual to use.
• Writing for technical, philosophical, and policy-adjacent audiences concerned with Ai safety, civilizational coordination, and practical alignment.
• Author of Thrive: The Theory of Abundance and The End of Suffering, Liberty Hill Publishing, 2025.

Founder / Builder — Fiduciary Advisory and Human Thriving Platform (in development)

2025–Present

• Building a new fiduciary advisory services platform informed by 20+ years of prior advisory practice and current research in aligned decision systems.
• Early work includes health-sector introductions, active client relationships, and platform design integrating human thriving, governance, and aligned advisory practice.
• Operating under voluntarily adopted fiduciary standard with five binding obligations: duty of care, duty of loyalty, full disclosure, suitability, and continuous obligation.

Founder & CEO — StrategicPoint Investment Advisors

Providence, Rhode Island | 1989–2008

• Founded and built an independent fiduciary advisory firm in Providence, Rhode Island.
• Shaped the firm from startup stage into a recognized registered investment advisory business serving individuals, families, and institutional relationships.
• Built the business during the period when sophisticated investment management and financial planning were moving from elite private channels into broader client markets.
• Developed the firm's client-facing advisory architecture, business strategy, growth direction, and market positioning.
• Led through expansion, media visibility, and strategic scaling.
• Recruited, trained, and developed talent — including Jill Schlesinger, who later became a national financial-media figure.
• Participated in the firm's eventual sale during the financial advisory roll-up era.

Founder / Early Builder — Progressive Financial Strategies

Rhode Island | Late 1980s

• Helped launch the advisory work that evolved into StrategicPoint.
• Recognized early that high-end investment management and financial planning were moving toward mainstream households.
• Built business processes and client acquisition around that thesis before the market fully matured.

Vice President — Resource Objectives, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts | Late 1980s

• Held senior leadership role in Boston staffing and executive search.
• Extended prior operating experience in staffing, market development, and profit-focused division building.
• Applied disciplined commercial judgment to growth strategy and organizational structure.

Division Manager / Business Builder — Positions Incorporated / Blue Arrow PLC

Boston, MA & Rhode Island | Mid to Late 1980s

• Began in executive search and staffing during the period when Positions Incorporated became part of the Blue Arrow expansion wave.
• Identified under-covered demand in real estate development, construction, site engineering, environmental engineering, and related project markets.
• Created and scaled a construction-focused division that became the firm's largest-producing division.
• Conducted market analysis that identified healthcare as the next high-opportunity vertical and built the healthcare division, which became another top-performing business line.
• Shifted operating focus from gross production to profit discipline and improved commercial performance.
• Managed recruiting strategy, market development, client acquisition, and operational growth in fast-moving sectors.

Insurance Agent / Early Producer — Metropolitan Life

Early Career

• Entered the insurance business at an unusually young age after meeting demanding pre-appointment performance hurdles.
• Achieved exceptional early production and established a pattern of rapid commercial execution.
• Recognized opportunity in reviewing under-served policies during a changing product environment and turned that into strong sales performance.
• Built first practical grounding in fiduciary responsibility, household risk, and long-cycle client trust.

Selected Achievements

• Built multiple high-performing business lines by identifying neglected or emerging markets before competitors fully occupied them.
• Built a fiduciary advisory enterprise from the ground up and led it through long-term growth.
• Recruited and developed talent that later achieved national visibility.
• Combined advisory judgment, business-building skill, media fluency, and systems analysis across finance, healthcare, and Ai-related work.
• Rebuilt public intellectual output through Deconstructing Babel after a period of severe personal and systemic adversity.
• Co-hosted weekly radio program "Making Money" for 12 years.
• Weekly commentator on NBC News affiliate.
• Active nonprofit board experience including Board Chair, Amos House, Providence, RI.
• Filed pro se amicus brief in Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War (2026).

Research and Intellectual Agenda

Current work centers on:

• Ai alignment grounded in observer dependency rather than purely rule-based control
• Thermodynamic and stability-based models for institutional and synthetic decision systems
• Human language bias and its consequences for machine reasoning
• Practical frameworks for constructive human–Ai collaboration
• Rebuilding fiduciary systems for human thriving rather than extraction alone

Additional Information

• Retired investment manager, author, and philosopher
• Based in New Hampshire with professional roots in Rhode Island and Boston
• Available for research collaboration, advisory work, writing, and public discussion in Ai safety, fiduciary design, and systems governance
• Extensive experience conjuring something from nothing
• Proven, verifiable track record

Contact

For private questions, the Questions button at the top of the site sends a private email straight to David. For public discussion, the comments section on any post is open. For research collaboration or advisory inquiries, dbtoasle@gmail.com.

Last updated: April 30, 2026