What Is Breaking Metrics?
Breaking Metrics is where I try to make sense of why everything feels more expensive than it should be — housing, groceries, insurance, bills, all of it.
Most explanations you see online are either political talking points or oversimplified headlines, and neither actually helps people understand what’s going on.
I write Breaking Metrics because I wanted a clearer picture for myself. Prices move for a reason.
Something upstream shifts — materials, labor, policy, supply chains, interest rates, or all of the above — and that pressure eventually shows up in everyday costs.
That’s the part nobody explains well, so I decided to dig into it and break it down in a way that’s easy to follow.
The goal here isn’t to overwhelm people with macro theory or to pretend I can predict the future. The goal is to make data, tools, and clear information available to anyone who wants to understand the forces behind affordability — whether you’re trying to manage your own finances better or you’re simply interested in how the economy actually works.
If you’ve felt blindsided by rising costs and want a practical, straightforward way to understand what’s driving them, that’s what Breaking Metrics is built for.
What I Do
I’m a civil engineer working on large infrastructure projects. A lot of my work comes down to understanding constraints, tracking changing conditions, and figuring out how upstream decisions affect real-world outcomes. That mindset spills over into how I look at markets and economics.
The Newsletter
Breaking Metrics is where I take that same approach and apply it to affordability. The newsletter is a running breakdown of the variables that move costs — inflation data, policy changes, supply issues, market behavior, and anything else that feeds into what people pay. I try to explain things in a way that’s clear and practical, without the noise you get from most financial content.
To streamline things, I built two AI platforms that give us the answers.
Fraywire
Alongside the newsletter, I also built Fraywire, a market dashboard and analysis platform that lets you track the data behind everyday costs and see what’s actually changing. A Fraywire+ membership unlocks the full system: custom dashboards, signals, portfolio tools, and the ability to chat with Pulse AI about markets or assets you’re researching.
Glideslope.ai
I also run Glideslope.ai, a real-time news aggregator and analysis tool that uses Pulse AI to break down headlines, summarize important updates, and help you stay on top of what matters without digging through dozens of articles. It’s the system I use myself when I’m trying to understand how current events connect to prices, markets, or policy decisions.
Everything I build — the newsletter, Fraywire, and Glideslope — is meant to serve the same purpose: make it easier to understand what’s driving costs and give people better tools to react to it.