Building for sensemaking
Engineer's hands, psychologist's questions.
I spent a decade shipping software at scale, then went and studied the mind. Now I build for sensemaking — tools that help people make sense of themselves and the world in front of them. Most software is built to help you do more; I'm more interested in helping you understand better.
The domains have moved — sound, then software, now the mind — but the instinct hasn't. Right now my attention is on personal sensemaking: reflection, attention, the distance between who you are and who you're becoming, built as things you can actually open and use rather than essays about them. I'm in a deliberately open phase, following the interesting thread rather than the urgent one — so this is less a pitch than a window into what I'm making, and an open door if any of it is close to what you're working on too.
What I'm into right now
- Grounded Ninja — refining an AI reflection tool that tries to make philosophy and psychology livable, not just readable. My main build focus, currently through the Brunel incubator.
- A direction I'm building toward — AI that helps people think better, not think for them. I came to it through psychology and I'm following it as a builder first; the work matters more than any particular route into it.
- Finding people to build with — I'd like to be building alongside people more, not only on my own. Co-founders, collaborators, anyone working the same seam.
The threads, if you want to pull one
Nothing here is for sale and nothing wants your email. They're just the things I've made, in case one of them is yours too.
- Made — things you can actually open and try, from a reflection tool to a granular synth to an open-source psychology library.
- Research — the thinking underneath: cognitive science, dialogue, what trustworthy AI-mediated reflection might look like.
- About — how a musician became a CTO became a psychologist, and how the three chapters compound.
If any of this is close to home — you're building at the same seam, or you'd like to — I'd genuinely like to hear from you. Say hello.