An independent researcher exploring the future of knowledge discovery systems.

Building systems, methods, frameworks to translate complexity, expand the adjacent possible, and improve how we decide what to build.

Research Areas

My research is domain-agnostic, crossing traditional boundaries - from evolutionary computation and complexity science, to organizational design and theoretical psychology.

Systematic Discovery

Treating discovery as a discipline - combining organizational design with computational methods to explore vast solution spaces and identify which possibilities deserve commitment.

Systems for Understanding

Designing human–AI systems for connecting evidence, testing explanations, and preserving context to transform knowledge into understanding.

Representational Architectures

Exploring graphs, latent spaces, and multi-architecture systems in search of the best design for the capability at hand.

Current Projects

I've been researching in private for a few years, so this site is a work in progress for all of my work. Below you'll find the current development projects occupying most of my time beside client work.

Kensho

A product-discovery platform for exploring, evaluating, and evolving product concepts from an early idea through design, build, and commercial validation.

Caro

A research-to-writing tool that drafts from sources held in the graph.

Automated Researcher

A research engine that uses graph structure to ground prior art, assess novelty by position, and recommend methods.

Amplify

A charitable-giving marketplace built on an impact graph.

Writing

Essays across a range of subjects.

Maximizing Intellectual Capital through Systematic Combinatorial Discovery

It's now common knowledge that 90% of venture-backed startups fail to return capital to investors - a failure we chalk up to the uncertainty and ambiguity of the market.

Unleashing Human Potential Through Systematic Recombination

Modern organizations systematically waste human potential - treating people as standardized components slotted into fixed roles, rather than capabilities that should flow to wherever they create the most value.

Experimenting with Startup Studio Structures

Even as tech compensation has risen to astronomical levels, a persistent feeling of unfulfillment remains - and the cause lives in the org charts and bureaucracies required to keep a corporation scaling.

Psychology has a Context Problem

In another lifetime, before I meandered over to technology, I was a budding psychologist - long fascinated by the brain, and more concretely by how we think.

How might we innovate

Prototyping costs are trending toward zero as AI tools translate natural language into testable code - removing any excuse for not generating a prototype for any software-based idea.

Innovation is a Worthy Cause

Progress is not a given - it emerges from proactive intention. If progress can be directionally designed, comprehension alone isn't enough; it has to be embraced by builders, not just studied.