The 2020s

24 entries

2026

Very full-stackWith AI in the loop, one person can now carry a product from brand to infrastructure. The lines are blurring, and I think that is the point.

Autism EyesAn AI and VR healthtech spinout from Cleveland Clinic; as fractional CTO I helped carry the product out of the innovation lab, to its acquisition by Floreo.
Differentiated HomeworkCreate differentiated homework based on the needs of the student
LLMs are going great“A crowd-sourced collection of everything you shouldn't be building with LLMs. You're… not doing that right?” Made in twenty-four hours at the inaugural AI Hackathon London.
AilaOak National Academy's AI lesson assistant, open to every teacher in the UK.

Bold creativity winsCreativity in practice: bringing an idea to fruition. The online school built in six days, and what happens to the ideas that don’t make it.
How to scale your data teamWith Thomas in’t Veld of Tasman Analytics, at dbt’s Coalesce London 2022: how On Deck pulled 400-plus SaaS tools into one data platform without a data team.
TranslucentAn early-stage fintech and data startup: a finance platform for the CFOs of multi-entity businesses.

ConfirmicA cookie consent widget for websites, taken over from Metomic in 2021 and run under a new name.
Digital Leaders Impact Awards
On DeckA San Francisco cohort-based learning platform for people with ambition, somewhere between an accelerator and an MBA.
Unlocking Potential (keynote)He was provocative and challenging at the same time as being positive and inspiring. He fulfilled his brief completely and was very flexible in the lead up to his keynote- flexing the content and checking with me that he was getting the messaging right.

Emily QuintonEmily's personal website, built with Gatsby
IndependentStartups applying AI, as their fractional CTO or lead engineer: an AI and VR healthtech spinout from Cleveland Clinic, and Aila, Oak National Academy's AI lesson assistant.
Oak National AcademyWrote the first code and led the technical development of Oak's free online lessons: v1 shipped in the first lockdown, and by the second wave it was supporting 4.5 million children a week learning from home.
Oak National AcademyA free online educational resource to help schools to continue providing education for students.
PerfectlyA small web performance sketch: it ran Lighthouse in the cloud and measured what real visitors experienced.
RunA Strava-powered Gatsby website for sharing a training blog
Tech4Good Awards
The goal isn’t to run the marathon, it’s to become the kind of person who runs marathonsNow that the London Marathon is postponed, along with lots of other races, here’s why I’m keeping going and adapting.
Autism, kids, self-reflection and why I’m running the London Marathon for #AutismThis Summer, our two kids and I were diagnosed with autism. So what did I do? Start running, of course! Here’s why.
WPStatic TestProving out WP2Static so Oak National Academy could come off WordPress — flattening the site to static assets to cut its attack and performance surface.