80% of AI projects never ship. Not because the tech is broken — because nobody translates between the founder who pitched it and the engineer who has to make it work at 3am. I'm that translator. Ten years taking products from zero to one across defence, fintech, medtech, and climate tech. £2M+ funding enabled. 99.9% uptime where security clearances have teeth.
A weekend demo wins the meeting. Six months later the pilot is quietly archived. The founder blames the engineer. The engineer blames the spec. Nobody shipped.
Retry logic, eval harnesses, cost guardrails, observability, governance. The unsexy infrastructure that decides whether your AI earns revenue or dies in Postman. Shipped inside defence, forensics, medical, and critical-infrastructure constraints — so your Series A is easy by comparison.
AI / ML platforms · IoT & Digital Twins · Geospatial & satellite pipelines · Multi-agent LLM architectures · Enterprise SaaS · Real-time analytics. From edge devices in sub-zero climates to petabyte-scale cloud infrastructure — I build what the problem demands, not what the CV wants.
The hard stuff: defence, forensics, medical devices, critical infrastructure. If AI can ship where clearances are mandatory and compliance has teeth, it can ship for you.
Brought in as technical lead. Built the data pipeline, ML layer, and UI. Scaled the team from 2 engineers to 15 across science and software. Platform now deployed with enterprise energy clients.
Founder had the domain, not the AI muscle. Built the full GenAI pipeline, ETL, and React front-end. Stood up a distributed team of 7 and set delivery cadence. Got them investor-ready in 14 weeks.
Deployed a Laboratory Information Management System across three forensic entities and built LLM document-automation agents for a global law firm. Shipped into environments where ISO 17025 and UKAS audits are non-negotiable.
Led a £200K build for aerospace + defence partners. Computer vision, semantic search, and ETDA-compliant document processing. Security, auditability, and reproducibility were the brief — not "cool demo."
Free call. I find out what you're actually building, who's blocking it, and whether I'm the right person. If I'm not, I tell you and refer on.
Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed deliverables. Broken down week by week. No retainer creep, no "we'll invoice for the overages."
Weekly demos. Code in your repo, deployed to your infra. You see progress, your team learns from the work. No black boxes.
Runbooks, docs, team training, 30-day production warranty. Then I'm on call monthly or I get out of the way. Your choice.
10+ years taking products from zero to one across seven sectors: Telecom, Energy, FinTech, IoT, Defence, Medical, Generative AI.
Founded an award-winning climate tech startup. National Startup Awards winner. Invited speaker. MassChallenge Switzerland top-12 finalist.
PRINCE2 certified. ISO 9001 auditor. Not because certificates ship software — because they mean I can talk to your regulator.
Behind the scenes of @demotoprod on YouTube & socials — 60-second technical breakdowns of why AI projects fail and how to fix them.
Brilliant demo, excited stakeholders, then months of "we're almost there" until the project quietly dies. I'm the person who translates between all of them and ships.
Sixty seconds at a time. The cost traps, the retry patterns, the evals that actually matter, the reasons your pilot didn't make it. If you've seen the videos and think "yes, this person gets it" — you're already most of the way to being a client.
Founder-led. I'm the one you'll work with week to week. When a project needs more hands I bring in a small network of senior engineers I've shipped with before — never juniors dressed up as seniors, never a pyramid of account managers between you and the code.
Because T&M makes it my job to keep the clock running, not to ship. Fixed scope + fixed price means my incentive matches yours: finish, well, fast. If scope genuinely changes we talk about it in writing before the next invoice.
I look for three signals: the founder can articulate the problem without jargon, there's a real user who'll be worse off if it fails, and the team is willing to learn. If the brief is "build me something like ChatGPT but for our industry" — I'll refer you to someone else.
Yes. Most of my delivered work is under NDA. I've shipped in defence, forensics, medical devices, and critical infrastructure, and I know how to work inside ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO 17025, and UKAS constraints without slowing delivery to a crawl.
Rarely, and only after one paid engagement has gone well. Equity without a cash relationship hides misalignment. A short paid audit tells us both whether we want a longer story.
Book the 30-min discovery anyway. I'll tell you — plainly — whether you need me, someone else, or nobody right now. Referring the wrong-fit prospects on is how I end up with the right-fit ones.
I reply personally within 24 hours. If we're a fit, you'll have a written proposal in your inbox within 48 hours of the discovery call.