Projects — Aaron Dolgonos

Researcherat CU Boulder's ATLAS Lab

Under the guidance of Professor Ellen Do, graduate professor at CU Boulder, researching how the timing of LLM assistance — introduced during divergent versus convergent stages of ideation — shapes the quality of creative output and the collective diversity of ideas across a group.

Within-subjects study, approved and scoped to early-stage venture ideation as its problem domain. Paper in preparation for submission to ACM Creativity & Cognition.

Business Operations
Intern

12 weeks, full time. Completed a company-wide SaaS vendor audit under the direct supervision of CEO Niji Sabharwal and SVP Finance Jason Sanders, consolidating overlapping tooling and renegotiating contracts into realized FY2027 savings. Invited back for summer '27.

Glintbrush, Inc.co-founder & CEO

Turning all empty walls into galleries.

Founded with George Carlin, a UCLA freshman and Palantir Fellow. A two-sided consignment marketplace that monetizes wall space for low-margin venues while getting local artists shown and paid.

Launched publicly in August '26 and now live in venues, with the first matched works hanging in Denver. Expanding to eleven additional cities this fall. glintbrush.com