Chartered Engineer · CEng MIET · Leeds
A second opinion on technology decisions, from an engineer who still builds.
Independent advice for engineering and product companies, and for the boards, investors and lenders behind them. Whether you have a decision to check or are asking where to start with AI: plain answers, fixed scope, no retainer unless you want one.
No pitch. You leave with a suggested first step, whether or not it involves me.
How I can help
Fixed-scope pieces of senior judgement, with a clear end point.
If you run the company
AI Opportunity Workshop
A facilitated half day with the people who know the work. Ends with three first AI projects worth doing, each with scope, data needs, hosting choice and success measures.
Connected products
Architecture, device security, safe firmware updates, and readiness for the EU Cyber Resilience Act.
Decision analysis
Scenario modelling that shows the realistic range of cost, time or risk, not a single hopeful number.
Technology direction, architecture, delivery, suppliers and team, for companies without a full-time CTO.
If you are backing one
Technology due diligence
An independent read on a product, platform or team before you invest, lend or acquire. The same work I have done for a major UK bank.
Second opinion
A plain-spoken view on one technology decision, supplier or plan, including AI claims: what a product really owns and what it depends on.
Decision analysis
Scenario modelling that shows the realistic range of cost, time or risk, not a single hopeful number.
Most work in green tech and e-mobility, health tech, connected products and manufacturing. Other sectors
Case study · Fienti
A production connected-vehicle platform, architected by me and built with AI.
Built for a client launching a new business, and now a multi-tenant platform for e-mobility manufacturers and fleet operators: nine lifecycle stages, from factory checks to end of life, across an operator portal, a workshop portal, customer apps and a web portal.
“AI did much of the typing. The engineering decisions were mine.”Read the case study →
Try it yourself
Tools I built, using the methods I advise on.
See where your organisation stands on the five levels of AI value, with an optional AI-written briefing.
Take the check → Free · 10 to 12 minutesTechnology Risk SnapshotFor investors, lenders and boards weighing up a technology company: the risks in what you have been shown, and the questions to put to the company next.
Take the snapshot → Free · 8 to 10 minutesStrategic Deficit CheckFor leadership teams: how often the tells of a company with no strategy happen in yours, and the structural response to each.
Take the check → Ask · BetaAsk my writingAsk a question about technology, AI or leadership and get an answer grounded in my published writing, with links to the articles it came from.
Ask a question →Writing · 59 articles
AI in engineering companies
Tell me what you are trying to decide, or where you feel stuck.
I will suggest the smallest useful first step. Based in Leeds, working in the UK and internationally, on site or remote.
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