Peter Frerichs

Welcome! My name is Peter Frerichs, and I am a contract writer and nonprofit consultant, working primarily with U.S. and Latin American entities on fundraising, managing grant cycles, and providing strategic program direction. Current and past client areas of work include supportive housing, access to financial services, mental health, programming for formerly incarcerated teens, education, and public policy.


I additionally provide writing services to companies operating across the finance and banking, energy, trade, and transportation sectors. I hold a Master's degree in Public Administration/Public Policy from the University of Southern California and have overseas living and working experience in Latin America.


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Crystal Capital Partners •

Current State of Humanoid Robotics

At the end of March 2025, OpenAI, the California-based behemoth behind ChatGPT, closed a record $40 billion in corporate venture capital (CVC) funding. The first quarter of 2025 absolutely dwarfed previous Q1s, including Q1 2023 that had raised an impressive (at the time) $70.35 billion. While the overall numbers were notable, the “industrial” category, which includes drones and robotics, registered the largest percentage change in start-up deals of any of its sub-sectors.
Crystal Capital Partners •

Stargate, DeepSeek, Grok: Who’s Now Winning the AI Arms Race?

With the AI arms race heating up, Stargate is slated to begin construction in Texas with a 1 million-square-foot facility. The announcement was a proclamation to the world, but China specifically, that the US will take the offensive posture to dominate the larger AI landscape moving forward. DeepSeek, however, has now moved Stargate and US AI players into a defensive posture, which are unchartered waters in the tech world. There’s a multitude of directions President Trump could now take, but two stand out:
Crystal Capital Partners •

Sports Betting Parlays Are a Hit with Fans and the House

Flutter Entertainment, the parent company of FanDuel, introduced the sports betting parlay concept in the US in 2016. Originally based on “multis,” a popular parlay model in Australia, engineers got to work on what would be extremely difficult algorithms for US-based sports. In football, for example, how a quarterback is throwing the ball directly affects the number of potentially good receptions a wide receiver can expect. The knock-on effects of player performances become extremely complicated, but machine learning and AI models can now analyze historical patterns and spit out reasonably reliable odds that are then coupled with on-the-ground research.
Global Trade Magazine •

Onboarding New Hires with Generative AI

Gen AI can take company content – video, audio, and text – and distill and deliver the content in e-learning modules. For example, bringing a new warehouse manager up to speed with everything from company culture to day-to-day responsibilities can sometimes take three weeks to a month. With Gen AI, however, one can feed the language model the employee manual coupled with company video and audio that address specific areas of the job. Within minutes, the employee can follow a handful of modules in collaboration with a human being to guide the process.
Crystal Capital Partners •

Why a Nuclear Revival Could Be the Future's Brightest Prospect

Paving the road to a nuclear revival are small modular reactors (SMRs). These reactors are approximately a third of the size of a typical plant and are prefabricated, thus reducing the capital costs that larger plants contend with. Oracle recently announced plans to power a new data center with three SMRs. To date, there are only three SMRs operational in the world. Constellation is in talks to build an SMR at one of its facilities, but most experts agree that SMRs won’t reach a commercial stage until the next decade. Last year an SMR project in Idaho was canceled as the project’s costs skyrocketed from $5 billion to $9 billion due to high interest rates and inflation.
Global Trade Magazine •

Automation Remains at the Center of ILA Concerns

It was difficult to avoid the national news coverage of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) strike during the first week of October. Doomsday scenarios, people hoarding toilet paper, and Union President Harold Daggett’s 7,136-square-foot New Jersey home, complete with a brick pizza oven and a snappy Bentley in his carport, were social media sensations. However, the heart of the ILA’s concerns surrounds automation and its eventual impact on union jobs.
Crystal Capital Partners •

2024 US Election: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on Crypto

In June, venture capitalist David Sacks held a swanky fundraiser for the former President in his Pacific Heights, San Francisco mansion. Guests paid up to $300,000, with rumored attendees spanning the C-suites of some of the U.S.'s largest crypto and blockchain companies. Meanwhile, it didn’t take much work for Trump’s team to compile a list of the regulatory crackdowns occurring at the hands of the Securities and Exchange Commission Chair, Gary Gensler. A Biden appointee, Gensler has sued crypto companies for violating securities laws and sought to dissuade banks from serving crypto companies.
Crystal Capital Partners •

Is all this AI Investment Headed for a Ho-Hum Ending?

One prominent voice hitting pause on the AI investment euphoria is author and economist Daron Acemoglu. In a recent interview with Goldman Sachs, Acemoglu estimated that AI would ultimately grow US GDP by a paltry 0.9% over ten years and affect fewer than 5% of all human tasks. On the other hand, Goldman Sachs internal analysts point to a 6% GDP growth and the automation of a much more robust 25% of human tasks over the same period.
SFA Solutions •

Salesforce Implementation the Wrong Way - 5 Common Mistakes

Yet, the most overlooked element of anything new is what the action portends - change. Salesforce is a change, and we know from thousands of years of human history that we creatures are skeptical of change. This doesn’t mean that people won’t eventually come around or even embrace the change, but it’s the latter point that is the most critical when implementing Salesforce - getting your people onboard and excited to change together.
Global Trade Magazine •

The Introductory Phase of Generative AI and Industrial Supply Chains

For many in logistics, however, the stakes are high when you’re relying on generative AI to make supply-chain decisions across dozens of partners along the chain. The data behind aiding manufacturers and retailers to move shipments over air, ground, and sea is fast-changing, proprietary, and very complicated. If something goes awry the last “person” you want to be relying on is a chatbot.
Global Trade Magazine •

Could Salt Lake City Become a Future Fintech Hub?

Meanwhile, Salt Lake City is thrilled with the proposition. Mayor Erin Mendenhall had coined the city “Tech Lake City” and land-use laws are now favorable for research-and-development and lab-space centers to operate. One of the first firms to take advantage of Tech Lake City was Denali Therapeutics, a biotech firm focusing on neurodegenerative medicines. Perfect Day is another biotech company working on the development of animal-free proteins.
Global Trade Magazine •

The Generative Potential of Artificial Intelligence

We’re at a point where artificial intelligence (AI) has successfully crept into nearly every facet of our lives. Some cringe at such a thought, while others embrace the ease at which we navigate our surroundings shepherded by AI. The last two years have been dominated by generative AI applications and their ability to create digital art, write really impressive text, and even compose music. Stable Diffusion, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT are paving the way and a recent report by McKinsey aims to investigate the economic potential of generative AI and workforce impacts.
Revize •

Lagging e-Government Platforms Can Cripple Citizenry

COVID-19 has put a strain on everything – health-care systems, employment, and education principally. Governments at the national, state and local levels are attempting (some better than others) to organize the delivery of critical services to their citizenry. Many of these services can be completed online, mainly as they apply to financial benefits such as cash transfers. However, a lesson from Japan shows that what we might have thought were well-constructed e-government platforms, in practice, is proving to be more challenging.
Global Trade Magazine •

Blockchain is not Revolutionizing the Supply Chain yet

Coming back to Walmart, many of its partners are growers and farmers and blockchain is still out of their purview for the moment. A short-term solution could be to focus on single products. For example, the state of Jharkhand in eastern India has been using blockchain to track the distribution of seed sales to farmers. The chain is only tracking seeds that come directly from the state and the process is exceedingly simple.

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