Chief AI Innovation Officer · Founder · Builder
I help founders build what matters before it's obvious.
Four-time founder and end-to-end operator. I've closed $2.3M+ in software engagements, shipped Refine to production, and spent 25 years arriving at the edge of what's new and building the first version. Right now I'm offering that to founders — free.
I search for good explanations. I build inspiring things.
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.
Computer 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 → Draft · 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 → Working · 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 → Draft · Dec 2025Economics in the Intelligence Age
A first-principles, layered model of economics. Scarcity → prices → externalities → power → AI.
Read → Draft · Nov 2025The Rise of the Outcome Economy
The near-term economic transformation. Knowledge workers become intelligence workers, and outcome-based economies emerge.
Read → Draft · Oct 2025Technohumanism
Humanity's past, present, and future. Technology transforms scarcity into abundance, creating biological misalignment and pointing toward transhumanism.
Read →For founders
Free consulting for technology founders
I'm offering free intro calls to founders building 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.
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.
Go-to-market & first customers
From first conversation to closed deal. I've closed $2.3M+ doing exactly this.
This is free while I build out the practice. Paid ongoing advisement — a booked strategy session plus monthly 1:1 support — is coming for founders who want to go deeper.
Built, shipped, sold
Four companies. 25 years of first versions.
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.
Building something? Let's talk.
Bring your hardest problem. The first call is free.
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