Advisory · Deep-tech & AI

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Advisory

I advise founders and technical leaders building ambitious deep-tech and AI companies.

My experience spans both sides of company building: developing differentiated technology and helping shape the commercial decisions around it — strategy, fundraising, product direction, positioning and go-to-market.

I joined an early-stage deep-tech company before it had a research function and helped build that capability from the ground up, working through the transition from early technical development to significant organisational and commercial scale.

Today, I work with founders on the decisions that are hardest to make from inside the company: what to build, where to focus, how to position the company, how to finance the next stage of growth, and how to build the technical organisation required to get there.

I am most useful when the problem sits across technology, capital and company strategy — where the consequences of getting the decision wrong are measured in months, millions, or both.

Where I work

Company strategy Choosing the market, product and technical bets that determine the next stage of the company.

Fundraising & investor strategy Round sizing, narrative, investor positioning, targeting and preparation for consequential raises.

Research → product Turning differentiated technical capability into a product, roadmap and commercial proposition.

Technical organisation Building research and technical functions that can move from early experimentation to a scalable company.

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