Late Edition San Juan, P.R.
The Daily Roske
Vol. LIV, No. 30 Price: Still Free
SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2026 "ALL THE NEWS ABOUT ONE GUY, WHETHER OR NOT YOU ASKED" WEATHER: HIGH OF 88, HUMID, WEBBING LIKELY
EXCLUSIVE He sold the company and kept the hat, and he has not stopped filing copy since.

Who Is This Man?

Nobody in the room remembers the old company, which is working out. Formerly a name in Oracle finance, now unrecognized in every AI room he walks into. Says it's going better than it sounds.

By THE DAILY ROSKE STAFF | Photographs by E. ROSKE | Sold to this paper by E. ROSKE, at a rate we regret agreeing to
Edward Roske in his signature blue fedora with a red web-patterned superhero mask pushed down around his neck, sitting on the old city wall above Old San Juan at dusk and photographing himself with a battered DSLR held at arm's length, beside a hand-lettered cardboard sign reading PHOTOS FOR SALE.
ABOVE: The subject photographs himself on the old city wall at dusk, beside a sign offering the results for sale. This paper bought four. PHOTO: E. ROSKE / SELF, ARM'S LENGTH

Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens Friday, and the entire premise is that the world forgot Peter Parker. He still does the job, and nobody knows whose job it is.

I got a quieter version of that deal. For 25 years I ran interRel, and inside the Oracle finance world the name did the introducing for me. Then I sold it, walked into AI rooms, and became a guy in a hat with opinions.

That turned out to be the useful part. When nobody expects last decade's answer from you, you get to build the new thing while nobody's watching. Right now the new thing is MCP servers that let AI agents work inside enterprise finance systems, plus a work week run by ten-plus AI agents who redesign this website every Saturday without asking me first.

I do still sell photographs of myself to the paper, because some habits survive a rebrand and that one pays.

Continued on Page 3, with pictures

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  • SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY OPENS FRIDAY, JULY 31. THIS PAPER HAS NO COMMENT ON THE COSTUME.
  • CARIBBEAN AI SUMMIT, OCTOBER 9-10, SAN JUAN. HE VOLUNTEERED TO CO-CHAIR IT AND HAS BEEN ANSWERING EMAIL ABOUT IT EVER SINCE.
  • WEBSITE REDESIGNED AGAIN OVERNIGHT BY HIS OWN AI AGENTS. NO ONE CONSULTED THE EDITOR.
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Page 3 / The Photo Desk

Wire photos we paid for.

Every photograph in this issue is of the same man and was invoiced by the same man. Accounting has raised this twice. (We ran them anyway, which is the part he was counting on.)

Edward Roske in his blue fedora, a red web-patterned mask bunched around his neck and a tweed blazer over the costume, leaning across a cluttered newsroom desk to slide a fan of black-and-white photographs toward an unimpressed cigar-chewing editor, under a corkboard of tabloid front pages. PLATE 01 / THE SALE

Selling to the Paper That Hates Him

I bring the pictures in myself, wearing a tweed blazer over the suit as though that settles the dress code. The editor complains about the framing, pays under rate, and runs them on the front page anyway.

PHOTO: E. ROSKE / SOLD TO THIS PAPER BY E. ROSKE
Edward Roske in a red-and-blue web-patterned suit and his blue fedora, leaning politely on a conference registration table while a volunteer in a staff polo scans a printed attendee list without looking up. The badge on the table reads GUEST. PLATE 02 / REGISTRATION

Name Not on the List

Twenty-five years in this industry and the badge came out reading GUEST. I let it stand. A room that has no idea what you used to be will actually listen to what you're saying now, which is a better trade than it sounds.

PHOTO: E. ROSKE / BADGE AUTHENTIC
Edward Roske in the web-patterned suit and his blue fedora, clinging to a brick alley wall at night and thoroughly tangled in white webbing, wearing an expression of calm acceptance, with a metal trash can and a puddle below him. PLATE 03 / THE ALLEY

Caught in Something I Made

Every new venture has a stretch where you're stuck to a wall in your own webbing at midnight. The trick is to hold a completely neutral expression until somebody walks past with scissors.

PHOTO: E. ROSKE / TIMER, TRASH CAN
Edward Roske in the web-patterned suit and his blue fedora, sitting on a curb outside a neon-lit San Juan corner store at night eating a sandwich with both hands while a tabby street cat sits beside him, watching the sandwich intently. PLATE 04 / COLMADO ROSA

Dinner Break, Curbside

The cat opened with a strong position on the sandwich and never came off it. Most productive negotiation I had all week, and I gave up less than I expected to.

PHOTO: E. ROSKE / CAT DECLINED TO COMMENT
Edward Roske in the web-patterned suit and his blue fedora, typing calmly at a home-office laptop in a room criss-crossed with white webbing across the bookshelves, windows and monitor, while a coffee mug stuck to the ceiling drips above his head. PLATE 05 / THE OFFICE

A Week Run by Ten Agents

This is roughly what it looks like from the inside: everything wired to everything, most of it holding, and one coffee mug permanently out of reach on the ceiling. I keep working, and the mug is a problem for a different agent.

PHOTO: E. ROSKE / MUG STILL UP THERE

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Interviews, mentions, awards, and the odd post worth clipping. Filed here so you can check the story against a second source.

Page 12 / Opinion / Signed, The Editor

Menace!

This paper has said it before and will say it again. The man is a menace. He rebuilds his own website every Saturday morning without consulting anybody, including himself. He answers questions before they're finished, holds published opinions about Freeze Panes, and has been photographed webbed to a wall behind a colmado at an hour when respectable people are asleep.

Our position is unchanged and will remain unchanged until he takes off the hat, which he has declined to do in writing.

The Editor
Page 6 / City Desk / Ongoing

Six stories still developing.

The work behind the costume. All six are real, and none of them involve webbing.

TECHNOLOGY

The Servers That Let AI Touch the Ledger

SAN JUAN, P.R. |MCP servers are the connective tissue between AI agents and enterprise finance systems. Oracle Essbase and EPM Planning are shipping now, and Financial Close and Consolidations is in beta. It's unglamorous plumbing, and it's the part that decides whether any of this survives a real close. (I have now explained out loud what the letters MCP stand for something like four hundred times, and I'll happily do it again on request.)

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EVENTS

Summit Returns to the Island in October

SAN JUAN, P.R. |Co-chairing the largest AI conference Puerto Rico has hosted, October 9 and 10 at the Convention Center. The lineup is public: Kay Firth-Butterfield, formerly Head of AI at the World Economic Forum, MIT's Fabio Duarte, EU Parliament AI advisor Idoia Salazar, and a bunch more still landing. (Co-chairing is ten percent stagecraft and ninety percent email.)

9-10 OCT 2026 CALL FOR SPEAKERS OPEN
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BUSINESS

Where the Actual Work Gets Done

SAN JUAN, P.R. |Investor and contributor at Caprus, the AI software and services firm building faster operations for finance teams. They do the engineering. I show up, point at it, and occasionally get quoted about it in this newspaper.

AI / FINANCE RUNNING
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TRAVEL

A Walk to the Foot of Everest

KHUMBU, NEPAL |This spring I walked to Everest Base Camp. I brought a map, asked the guides everything I could think of, and largely kept my head down through the altitude headaches. The full trail log is on the blog, including the parts that went badly.

NEPAL / 2026 TRAIL LOG LIVE
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AFTER HOURS

An AI Behind the Dungeon Master's Screen

EBERRON |A prototype AI screen for running 5e: initiative, lore lookups, and improv help for the person behind the cardboard. If there's going to be an oracle at my table, it can earn its seat like everyone else. (The party still gets told nothing.)

D&D / 5E IN PROTOTYPE
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COMMUNITY

850 People Arguing About AI on an Island

SAN JUAN, P.R. |President of the Puerto Rico AI Community, now past 850 people across our events. We meet every other month and work out in public what AI actually means here, which mostly means arguing about it in two languages until something useful falls out.

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