Fran Rodgmont

About

I'm a computer science engineer and Founder & CEO of Obelysk. I'm originally from the East of San Salvador, El Salvador, The Land of Volcanoes, a country where constraints are not obstacles but parameters that sharpen how you think about systems, leverage, and what it actually takes to build something that lasts.

My first encounter with technology wasn't through code. It was through film. Watching The Matrix as a kid, I didn't fixate on the action. I fixated on the green code cascading across the screen and the idea that reality itself could be modeled as a system. That image left a question I've never stopped asking: what sits beneath the interface of the world we experience?

That question moved me through software, then architecture, then into the logic of how complex systems are composed, how they scale, and how they fail. At some point the unit of thinking shifted from building applications to designing layers.

Today I'm building Obelysk, an initiative focused on small language models, cognitive infrastructure, and advanced AI systems. The premise is structural: intelligence is becoming a foundational layer of modern software, not a feature on top of it. Obelysk is designed around that shift.

My current trajectory is rooted in the question Turing left open: can machines think? From that starting point, I work through specialized and context-aware systems today with one direction in mind: reaching ASI, and ultimately a new form of intelligence we have theoretically conceived, pioneering what we believe is a new era in artificial intelligence. We call it OSI, Organic Superintelligence. The goal is to combine AI as mind with robotics as body: systems that don't just reason in isolation, but perceive, decide, and act in the physical world.

Work and contributions

  • Founded Obelysk, building cognitive infrastructure and small language models for organizations in Latin America and beyond.
  • Developing HAIKU, an AI-powered adaptive learning platform combining educational pedagogy with personalized intelligence.
  • Building research infrastructure for training and deploying domain-specific language models optimized for resource-constrained environments.
  • Designing community and accelerator-style programs to grow the deep tech ecosystem in El Salvador and the broader Latin American region.
  • Currently a student at Universidad Don Bosco, El Salvador, studying computer science while building in parallel.

The Matrix introduced me to the question. Obelysk is my answer.