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Founder & Scale · October 2026

The Founder Cannot Be the Magic in the Business

“You can’t be the magic in your business. You have to duplicate yourself.” What that advice has meant across three exits: why culture does not scale on its own, why trust comes before scale, and why the terms of a deal matter more than the headline number.

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Data & Infrastructure · White paper · 2025

How to Integrate in a Project Controls Environment (2025 Update)

Far too much time goes into finding and stitching together data from separate cost, schedule, risk and contract systems. This paper sets out Integrated Project Controls (IPC): one integration layer across those systems, now extended with AI and large language models that turn project data into early warnings and explanations.

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Builds on the original 2019 paper, How to Integrate in a Project Controls Environment, co-written with Dr Mark Townley.

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Infrastructure Doesn't Have a Software Problem. It Has a Data Problem.

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Trust Is Infrastructure: Why Capital Doesn't Move on Economics Alone

Transparency, governance and reliable project data as preconditions for investment.

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I write selectively about the problems I have worked on directly: building and scaling companies, enterprise data and AI, infrastructure, project execution, and the role of leadership and governance in complex businesses.

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