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Years building products, platforms and brands
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Years scripting and automating on Unix, daily
12+
Production AI skills authored
5
Brand systems shipped as live sites

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What the evidence points to

Digital ProductsDesign, validate and build. The strongest-evidenced line, with a fixed-price front door in App in a Day.
Web DevelopmentWebflow and Plone; a client base running since 2016.
Fractional CTOBest fit for a senior principal, and the thinnest public evidence.
Training & EventsTwo decades of teaching behind it; the only line that scales past my own hours.
Brand systemsFive shipped as living sites: Incrementic, QRTick, Afforrd, Particular Presence, TheLeap.

Where it's strongest

Design sprintsIDB "Creative Tech Lab"; sprint training for eGov.
Public sectorMOHW COVID-19 portals, WHO Go.Data, ePAS/ICD-11, UNEP, DBJ.
TeachingCARIMAC programme lead; CXC Chief Examiner; WebCraftConf.
AI skill authoringA dozen-plus production skills: payments, accounting, auth, encryption. None of it public.
Unix automationTwenty-five years of daily scripting, now the substrate the agent work runs on.

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