Founder and CEO
Tim Miner is the founder and CEO of By The People Technologies, a New York AI adoption consultancy for private equity, credit and hedge funds.
Not to be confused with Tim Miner, the gospel and R&B singer-songwriter.
Background
What Tim does at the firm.
Tim Miner founded By The People Technologies after leadership roles at Salesforce, IBM, and Tact.ai. He has personally delivered over 100 prompt engineering workshops to investment and operations professionals across financial services, and he sets the standard for every client engagement.
He is a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, Columbia University and Pratt Institute, where he teaches how to build AI into design thinking.
Writing
What Tim has written.
21 Oct 2026
Counsel read the credit agreement. The exposure is usually in the rest.
An LME turns on a few words in the debt documents. Why liability management reviews in private equity and private credit miss them, and what a full read takes.
8 Oct 2026
How to get a private equity firm to actually use AI
You have 200 licences and forty people use them. Why utilisation is the wrong number for an investment firm, and the order the AI adoption work goes in.
8 Oct 2026
How to make AI more accurate on investment documents
Why a model misreads a CIM, a credit agreement or an LP letter, and the five things that cut the errors, starting with giving it the document itself.
8 Oct 2026
AI usage policy for an investment firm: the one page the desk reads
What the one-page AI usage policy a PE, credit or hedge fund desk actually reads has to say, how it sits beside counsel's document, and what LPs now ask.
8 Oct 2026
What a forward deployed engineer does for an investment firm
A forward deployed engineer is an AI engineer embedded on your floor and scoped to one process. What the role is, and when an investment firm should hire one.
Elsewhere
Where else to find Tim.
LinkedIn
Tim Miner on LinkedIn
Where he writes about the firm's work.
Pratt
Visiting Associate Professor, Pratt Institute
His faculty page, in the Department of Creative Enterprise Leadership, where he teaches Strategic Technology.
X
@tim_miner
Where he posts as the firm's CEO.
Unite.AI
Author page, Unite.AI
Articles, including one on Apple Intelligence in June 2024.
AI Innovator
Author page, The AI Innovator
An August 2024 piece asking whether AI is really in the trough of disillusionment.
Podcast
Middle Market Musings, Episode 78
3 December 2025. Andy Greenberg and Charlie Gifford talk to Tim about the firm and its work with private equity.
Rutgers
AI workshop, Rutgers School of Business–Camden Executive Education
The executive education seminar he leads.
Podcast
Leveraging the Exponential Impact of AI with Tim Miner
Sharon Spano's interview with him, May 2023.
Talk to Tim
Tell us what your team is already trying to do with AI and where it keeps stalling. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so.
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