I build AI systems around real work, from the first operational constraint to production and handover.

I started in 2021 by building tools to make my own film-production work faster and more reliable. Since then, I have carried the same approach into construction, regulated compliance and fashion: understand the work, build the system and leave the people running it without me.

I want to do this with a team next. The CV has the detail; the essays below are how I think.