Work
Research, building and experience
I build enough to test ideas, and work across technical and institutional systems. Current research sits alongside a longer history in finance, investment, technology and strategy.
Research and experimental systems
Can Complex Intelligence Emerge From Small Adaptive Systems?
Current · Active inquiry through Synaptic QuantaAn inquiry into whether interacting adaptive components can develop capabilities absent from the individual components. Public information is available at the lab.
↗Personal Cognitive Architecture
Current · Experimental systemA long-running experimental system exploring how software can retain context, model a person's goals and history, and adapt over time.
→Selected earlier explorations
Digital Umwelt
Selected past work · Selected past work / developmental prototypeA persistent layer between a person and interchangeable AI models or applications, designed to preserve context, goals and continuity over time.
→Geopolitical Forecasting
Selected past work · Selected past work / experimentalAn experimental exploration of forecasting, evidence and judgement under uncertainty.
→Institutional and commercial experience
My experience includes institutional finance, investment, risk, technology, climate, strategy, venture building and transactions. I have worked with complex products, directed investments and served as an acting CEO. These roles inform how I approach systems, evidence and practical consequences.
I occasionally work with founders, investors and senior executives where a problem is consequential, poorly defined and cuts across technical and commercial boundaries.
Independent Ideas Lab
Synaptic Quanta
Synaptic Quanta is an independent ideas lab exploring how biological, artificial and organisational systems perceive, assign significance, organise and act. It is the research-facing home of my current work, with active inquiries, published outputs and routes for intellectual collaboration.