Benjamin Banks is a Founding Engineer at Kime, where he builds the AI and data infrastructure behind the platform's visibility analytics across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI search engines. He previously served as CTO of Manifold AI and won the Danish National Championship in AI (2025), one of the country's most competitive machine-learning contests. Benjamin has been programming since the age of 12 and trained in engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). On the Kime blog, he writes about the technical side of Generative Engine Optimization — how large language models retrieve, rank, and cite sources, and what brands can do to be surfaced by AI.