Advisory · Applied Research · Writing

Signal. Memory. Intelligence.

Advisory work, applied research, and public writing at the edge of agentic AI.

25 yrs
Payments, mobile, blockchain, agents
140K+
Learners reached — first blockchain MOOC on edX
160
Essays published
01 — Experiments
Lab

Agentic tools for builders, organizers, and communities. Public and permissioned.

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Current threads
Machine commerce

Services priced for agents, not only people. Payment at the protocol layer, offline-verifiable receipts, agents as customers.

Orchestration

Multi-model workflows wired through MCP. Tool boundaries, prompt contracts, handoff between models.

Agent safety

Watching what agents touch. Exfiltration firewalls, state-leakage observability, control over systems of record.

Self-sovereign data

Identity and content as signed, portable records. Personal data servers, firehose labelers, cryptographic provenance.

Signal intelligence

Live events turned into queryable memory. Transcripts into speaker-agents, applied retrieval and routing, builds that ship.

Timing layer

Symbolic timing systems as orchestration scaffold. Cyclic structure used to sequence work and select agents.

02 — Pathfinder
Advisory

Ecosystem cartography for institutions navigating AI.

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Available for fractional and advisory engagements: developer ecosystem strategy, agentic infrastructure adoption, and standards positioning for platform companies shipping new agentic capabilities.

Diagnosis before prescription. Every engagement starts with a scoped read of where your developer surface actually meets its market, before any plan gets proposed.

03 — Field Notes
Field Notes

Dispatches from the rooms where agentic AI is being worked out. PayPal Dev Days, MCP Demo Night, OpenClaw SF, Workato AI Hub, Redis Released, agentic commerce panels.

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04 — Programs
Programs

Buildathons, cohort programs, and builder education. Blockchain University, a Linux Foundation MOOC, and roughly 47 hackathons across payments and blockchain.