Journal · Writing
Field notes
from the build.
I write as I build — origin stories, hard-won lessons, and where I think this is all heading. If you want to understand how I think, start here.
Essays
From across the portfolio
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Bertha · Campfire Stories from the Architect
Three years, bootstrapped, and brutally honest.
“AI is at its most dangerous when it is most confident.”
A candid founder’s account of building Bertha — the technical fight, the personal cost, and a clear-eyed view of AI as pragmatic augmentation rather than magic. No sanitised success story; the full accounting.
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Silo · The Journal
One 2 a.m. question became a mission to secure AI.
The eighteen-month story of Silo — from the discovery that AI agents were operating completely unsupervised, to a kernel-level platform that scores trust and catches anomalous behaviour. A new security problem, told from the inside.
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SpeakEasy · Blog
From Stand Easy to Speakeasy.
“The best tools solve real problems.”
A personal story: how living with dyslexia and arthritis drove the build of a voice-to-text tool. Accessibility as a first principle, not an afterthought — and proof that the best tools come from solving your own real problems.
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CodeEasy · From the Architect’s Desk
Why I built CodeEasy.
After eighteen months building four full-stack products with Claude Code, the gaps were obvious: AI is brilliant in the moment but loses the thread. CodeEasy is the answer — persistent memory and architectural continuity that turn an assistant into a partner.
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