THINGS BUILT
I’ve spent most of my career somewhere between architecture, product thinking and implementation. These are a few public points on that line.
DaemonCore explores the security and governance boundary around autonomous software: identity, authority, bounded execution, multi-provider routing, operating context and evidence of what an agent was actually allowed to do.
The point is not to make agents less capable. It is to make capability usable in environments where “the model seemed confident” is not an acceptable control plane.
SPP started from a simple concern: the web was designed around browsers and pages, while increasingly capable agents consume meaning directly. The protocol explores structured artefacts, attribution, intent, consent, trust and machine-readable publishing.
As CTO at Attollo I worked across product, architecture and delivery for intranet and digital workplace solutions on SharePoint and Microsoft 365. The work ranged from product architecture to customer implementations and community education.
A useful independent receipt: the Attollo team appears in Nielsen Norman Group’s 2021 Intranet Design Annual winners for the Keysight project.
Red Plane was my consultancy around SharePoint, Office 365, Azure and custom software. A 2014 launch article describes the aim in fairly plain terms: understand how organisations work and communicate, then use technology to improve it.
The article also records previous consulting work with national brands including Unilever and Kellogg’s.
A recurring update and practical-learning format around Office 365 and the surrounding ecosystem. The idea was simple: Microsoft shipped faster than most people could reasonably track, so somebody needed to filter the noise and explain the useful parts.
Find an emerging capability. Work out where it becomes useful. Then find the edge cases that make it real.
Live-building PowerApps from inside AltspaceVR in 2017, partly because it was possible and partly to find out whether it was remotely sensible.
Exploring SharePoint Spaces and the difference between a compelling demo and an interface that earns a place in everyday work.