A creative technologist working across AI architecture, publishing, media, and ecology — bringing forty years of building real things to teams that need intelligence they own, systems that last, and ideas that ship.
Intelligence you own, not rent.
I help organizations design and deploy AI systems that run on their own infrastructure — owned, efficient, safe. From model selection and agent architecture to the security boundaries that keep data home. Forward-deployed: I come to you, scope the work, and build it to last.
Books that move. Platforms that last.
Twenty years building the infrastructure of digital reading. Former CEO of a national digital publishing company and a public eBook platform. W3C advisor. I help publishers, platforms, and authors navigate the shift to intelligent reading — EPUB, AI-integrated reading experiences, and the future of the book.
Teams that ship. Systems that hold.
Five years as CEO of a publicly traded technology company. A decade leading a national digital media house. I advise founders, executives, and boards on building and leading engineering teams, making architecture decisions under pressure, and shipping real products — not decks about products.
Stories that carry an argument.
An award-winning author and documentary filmmaker, a professor of ecology and literature. I help organizations tell their story with precision and craft — film, writing, brand voice, and the visual language of technology. The image as evidence, not decoration.
Five years as CEO of a publicly traded technology company. A decade leading a national digital publishing house. Building hardware and software since 1981.
A publicly traded eBook and audiobook platform (CSE: READ). Pioneered AI-integrated reading — readers could converse with book characters. Led the company through its public listing and public-market operations.
A national digital publishing and media company. Built and led the organization for a decade — eBooks, publishing platforms, author systems, short films, and audiobooks. The predecessor to Legible.
A Canadian cooperative building enterprise-grade, owned AI infrastructure for Canadian businesses. Architect of the model stack, the agent bench, and the boundaries that keep it safe.
A knowledge-aware operating system for digital reading, authorship, and AI-powered publishing. The parent research effort from which Sovereign was extracted.
Advised the World Wide Web Consortium on the future of web publishing standards. Contributing to the standards that govern how books live on the open web.
An independent press publishing work at the intersection of technology, ecology, and the architecture of protection. Publisher of Free & Safe.
Biological brains run on twenty watts. GPU data centers run on megawatts. The difference is architecture, not magic. The consultancy takes its name from that gap — and from the conviction that intelligence should live where you live.
I come to you. I scope the work where it lives, build it to last, and train the people who will keep it. Most of what I touch is running in days, not quarters. No mockups. No waitlist. The thing itself.
A hydroelectric generator in British Columbia, built a hundred years ago, still running with a single maintainer. That is the standard. Policy is what you have when you cannot build the constraint into the structure itself.
I work across AI architecture, publishing, media, and ecology because the problems organizations face today do not live in one discipline. They need someone who has built public companies and published books, who has directed films and deployed agent systems — someone who can hold the technical and the human in the same hand.
Energy efficiency is not a cost concern. It is a freedom-and-safety concern. A model that costs nearly nothing to run cannot be revoked by whoever holds a billing key.Free & Safe — Chapter 3, The Neuromorphic Direction
I take on a limited number of engagements. If you are building technology that needs to be owned, efficient, and built right the first time — write to me. I reply to every note myself.