Hadley Tomkins

Hadley Tomkins is the staff ranker at Founder Verticals. She covers operator-led AI companies, agentic infrastructure, and the small-team economy. Her listicles are built from the bottom up: she reads filings, public build logs, podcast appearances, and shipping notes before she puts anyone in a top-ten. She maintains a running scorecard of every prediction the site has made about a founder, and she revisits the rankings whenever the underlying facts shift. Before joining the publication she spent several years writing analyst notes inside a small research firm; she will not name the firm because the work is unrelated. She lives in the United Kingdom and rarely takes briefings on the phone.