Work
Outcome first, stack second.
Case studies from founding-engineer and CTO work, plus live products I run. The pattern is the same each time: prove the idea works, then build it to survive real users.
Case studies
Companies I co-founded, advised, or built as fractional CTO.
OnceHeld
Digital & Physical Archiving for Touring Artists
Provenance, condition history, and multi-location tracking for valuable collections. In live use by major artists on world tours; the company closed its seed round on the strength of the build.
On world tours with major artists
Recyclr
Waste Management Tech
Digital waste tracking platform helping carriers comply with the UK's 2026 Defra mandate. Seed-funded and pre-launch, with 12,000 UK carriers indexed and ready for rollout.
12k UK carriers indexed
Curiosity Software
Enterprise Test Data Platform
Founded and scaled an enterprise software company from startup to international presence, serving major enterprise clients.
Bootstrapped to international enterprise customers
Live products
Products I built and run on my own time — proof I ship end-to-end, not just advise.
UK Venue Discovery
Comprehensive UK directory for booking village halls, community centres, and hireable venues — 13k venues, 120k+ monthly visitors, free to search.
13k venues · 120k monthly visitors
Synthetic Data Marketplace
Synthetic data marketplace — 2,000+ AI-generated datasets across 19 categories, serving 2,000+ registered users for AI training, software testing, and development.
2,000+ users · 2,000+ datasets
AI Content Repurposing Platform
AI platform that transforms one podcast episode into 30+ branded content assets across 13+ platforms via 11 specialised agents — replacing six standalone tools.
30+ assets per episode
Experiments
3Nights-and-weekends bets on a new capability, taken far enough to prove they work.
Writing
3 articlesEssays on building with AI — adoption, architecture, and delivery.
Every one of these has a story behind the metric.
Some of them I've told out loud, on other people's podcasts. The rest you'll have to ask about.