Scaling
Technology & Teams
CTO for the AI age. I combine extensive experience with modern AI to build tech that actually works
I help scaling companies build the best technology. Whether it's integrating agentic AI or fixing your core systems, I focus on what delivers value, not just on what's trending.
By the Numbers
3
Start-up trade sales
$150M+
PE Raised
0 - 100
Size of teams I have built
15 years
Systems I have created still running
$15B+
Portfolios managed by my systems
10M+
Monthly users of architectures I have created
> 70%
Measured productivity gain via AI strategy
100K
App users within 1st year
5.3x
Leadership for revenue growth
Latest Thinking
Insights on engineering culture, strategy, and scaling.
Agent-ready is the new mobile-ready
The companies that designed for mobile beat the ones that bolted it on. AI agents are the same shift, and five questions tell you which of your tools are ready.
Four tools and no single view
Jira, Confluence and Atlas each held a slice of the picture at a different level of detail, so every week someone rebuilt the whole thing in PowerPoint.
Status updates are a tax on your best people
Your strongest engineers lose Friday afternoons to reports that people skim at best. Transparency should come out of the work, not sit on top of it as a second job.
Why I don't sell it
Building the product was the easy part. Why giving most of it away is a commercial decision, not the absence of one.
Ways of Working: a product and engineering operating model
The complete operating model I'd bring to a product and engineering organisation: squad structure, every role defined, sprint and release process, DevOps principles, product tiers, AI use cases, and how the whole thing flexes down for smaller headcounts. Twelve documents, written to be used rather than admired.
The end of SaaS? It depends. (An investment thesis)
Whether agent-built software replaces a SaaS product depends on what that product actually sells. Three categories, and what each one means if you're writing cheques.