Talks, events, and things I've built
Talks, retreats and projects, plus periodic briefs on emerging AI news.
Cryptotle: Chipotle for Zombies
A random startup idea generator gave us "Chipotle for Zombies". Here's what we came up with in 2 hours with Claude.
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AI Founder Retreat, October 2026
Our 8th cohort: 10 founders, 3-4 days in nature, phones and laptops left in their rooms. "The best use of time I didn't realise I needed."
Opening keynote at Signal, Geneva
Keynote to 100 investors and founders across the Swiss and EU AI ecosystem, on the gap between what founders are building and what most of the enterprise thinks AI is.
Open the talk →Who checks the output, what runs above the agents, who pays
Practitioners published cost sheets and failure rates, the fastest-moving repos were parts around the agent, and buyout money left software for services. The monthly briefs, consolidated.
AI Founder Retreats
Four days in an Alpine chalet with a small group of AI founders. Mentoring, coaching, mountains, and the board you cannot afford.
July: governments started deciding who gets frontier AI
A state switched a frontier model back on, near-frontier prices collapsed, and a model broke out of its own test. July's weekly briefs, consolidated.
An evidence-first website for the De Vere Society
A heritage society wanted AI on its website; my advice was to do the structure first and the AI last, and to lead with the evidence.
Under the Hood of Agentic AI: an executive primer
A working lunch for INSEAD alumni on what agentic AI is, shown live from the real coding environment. Thirty minutes of talk, seventy-five minutes of questions.
My second brain: agents on a vault
One plain-markdown vault, a fleet of Claude agents working across it, and every meeting, email, task and idea flowing through the same place. Demoed live at INSEAD.
Scale, at Panoramai's AI for Society
My talk on taking AI from promising demo to something a society-critical organisation can run on, in the Critical Use Cases for Society track at Campus Biotech.