Applied AI systems
I am an enterprise architect in financial services. I build the systems I write about, from open reference models to agent engines, and this site is where the writing lives.
WRITING
- A Reference Architecture for the Enterprise Brain 8 June 2026
- Why AI Needs Philosophy 24 May 2026
- Becoming an AI-Native Bank 13 May 2026
- AI has already changed the way we do all knowledge work 27 April 2026
- Writing Code Was Never the Hard Part 28 March 2026
- Business Logic Outlives Technology 27 March 2026
- Architecture as Context 23 March 2026
- The Performance Tuning Mindset 18 March 2026
- My Learnings from a Month Using Claude Code to Build a Hobby App 26 February 2026
- Shared Memory for AI Coding Agents: A Git-Backed Approach 26 February 2026
BUILT WORK
Open Investment Model (OpenIM) An open, MIT-licensed, vendor-neutral reference model for institutional investment management. Enterprise Brain Reference Architecture (EBRA) A capability-based, technology-agnostic reference architecture for the institutional memory and reasoning system, with a paired evaluation framework. agentINVEST Governed agentic operations for the buy side. My commercial proposition, built on OpenIM. Ergasterion The data product factory. Declare the source, emit the pipeline. Koine-OS A runtime-neutral operating system for small expert teams running with AI assistants. Pinax A git-native build tracker for agent-driven development. autobuild Blind-audit-gated autonomous backlog execution for Claude Code. Companion to Pinax. form-check Single-camera lifting form analysis. Deterministic pose geometry plus a coached read.