Chief AI Innovation Officer · Philosopher · Futurist
I think beyond the obvious — then I build it.
Original thinker and end-to-end builder. Across 25 years and four companies, I've turned first-principles ideas into working products for enterprises and startups — from strategy and customer discovery through architecture and production. I shipped Refine, a governed agentic software delivery system; built HarmonicWork for human-AI orchestration; and created Forge and Corpus Council for agentic execution and grounded deliberation. Right now I'm offering that experience to you — free.
Build a future worth exploring.
The model, in four minutes
The Moving Line — Why AI moves fast while businesses are slow
AI is changing business incredibly fast. Real transformation takes decades. These claims sound contradictory — but both are true. The Moving Line is a model of the three boundaries shaping the intelligence era. They move at different rates, and businesses live in the gap between what AI can do and what they've actually adopted. That gap feels comfortable — until capability becomes competition.
- Diffusion — how AI capability spreads into everyday business
- Research — how new AI capabilities are created
- The Problem Frontier — how technology and knowledge reveal new problems and markets
- Read the essay → Watch on YouTube →
Shipping in production
Refine — Your team's agentic software delivery system
Refine turns product feedback into structured work, guides AI agents through planning and implementation, and keeps files, terminals, nodes, processes, review, and Git close to your local workflow. Built in Rust, local-first, and running in production today.
- Empower your whole team — not just engineers — to shape the product
- Coordinate a fleet of AI agents across repos, branches, and machines
- Governance that keeps agent work aligned with intent before it merges
- Visit getrefine.dev →
The writing
Thinking carefully, in public
Essays on AI, economics, epistemology, and what it means to be human in an age of thinking machines. No paywalls. Meant to be built on and argued with.
In Search of the Meta-Modeling Process
A search for the computational process behind model creation: how observations, purposes, values, and abstractions become reusable reasoning programs—and perhaps the primitive underlying creativity itself.
Read → Final · July 2026The Moving Line
Work lies on one timeline: what AI does, what AI can do but humans still do, what only humans can do, and the unbounded frontier beyond. Three boundaries move across it at diffusion, research, and frontier rates. This essay models who gets repriced, who evaporates, and who captures what opens next.
Read → Final · Jun 2026State of AI
A snapshot written for friends after a state-of-AI conversation. The contradictory public forecasts are really disagreements about which lens to use, not about the data. Three lenses — empirical, neuroscience, information ontology — a defense of the information lens, and what it predicts: recursive self-improvement around 2027, continual learning, machine creativity, and work migrating from Hands to Heads to Hearts.
Read → Final · Mar 2026Computer People
A synthesis of two years of research on AGI. LLMs have the necessary ingredients for novel knowledge creation; we have developed AGI as a universal explainer; and AGI constitutes personhood.
Read → Final · Mar 2026Structural Convergence Thesis
Tests the orthogonality thesis against real-world constraints — finite minds, relational pressure, reflective reach. Persistent minds converge on a relational Goldilocks zone; AI safety depends on maturation, not just control.
Read → Final · Feb 2026Metaprogramming Framework To Classify Personhood
An exploration of personhood from an information-ontology perspective. Personhood is substrate-independent metaprogramming; the difference is maturity, not kind.
Read → Final · Dec 2025Economics in the Intelligence Age
A first-principles, layered model of economics. Scarcity → prices → externalities → power → AI.
Read → Final · Nov 2025The Rise of the Outcome Economy
The near-term economic transformation. Knowledge workers become intelligence workers, and outcome-based economies emerge.
Read → Final · Oct 2025Technohumanism
Humanity's past, present, and future. Technology transforms scarcity into abundance, creating biological misalignment and pointing toward transhumanism.
Read →For builders
Free consulting for builders
I'm offering free intro calls to builders working in the technology space. No pitch, no catch — I've been on every side of the table (sales, architecture, implementation, production) and I'd rather help you avoid the expensive mistakes than watch you make them. Book a call and bring your hardest problem.
First principles & the road ahead
Step back from the roadmap. What thinking machines actually change about your product, your team, and the people they touch — reasoned from the ground up, not the hype cycle.
Narrative & positioning
Sharpen the story — what you're building, why now, and why anyone should care.
Architecture & technical strategy
Pressure-test the build. What to own, what to buy, and what will break at scale.
AI strategy that ships
Where agents and AI actually create leverage in your product — beyond the demo.
This is free while I build out the practice. Paid ongoing advisement — a booked strategy session plus monthly 1:1 support — is coming for builders who want to go deeper.
Built, shipped, sold
25 years of first versions — enterprise and startup.
By title I'm Chief AI Innovation Officer at a software consulting firm. By nature I'm a builder who designs futures. I own the full arc — first customer conversation through architecture, production deployment, and the tooling that makes the next build faster. Low-code before it had a name. AI strategy before it was on every roadmap. Now: what happens when cognitive work becomes nearly free.
Refine
2026 · In productionAgentic software delivery system that coordinates people and AI agents. Built in Rust, local-first.
Forge
2026Claude Code plugin for spec-driven, agentic execution — decomposes goals into tasks and runs an implement / verify / commit loop. Replaced my own use of ralph-loops and spec-kit.
Corpus Council
2026Hierarchical council deliberation over a curated corpus for grounded LLM conversations — deterministic retrieval, markdown-defined personas.
BlissUI
2015–2021Low-code app platform compiling visual composition to a React runtime — custom data structure, compiler, and an editor where the preview is the running app.
PhyQuest
2002–2006First co-founded company. Radiology significant-findings follow-up platform so critical results wouldn't fall through the cracks.
HarmonicWork
2025Agent orchestration platform where AI workers are first-class citizens alongside humans, routing tasks via DAG-based workflows.
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