Governance · Operating model
Designing a production gate across six control functions
Every team was rediscovering the same route through governance. Building the route once, without taking authority away from anyone.
I turn complex AI, data, platform and governance problems into prioritised, governed, production-ready capability inside complex organisations.
Most organisations are not short of ideas or pilots. They are short of the connective work between a promising proof of concept and something the business can actually run, fund and rely on. That work is part product, part platform, part governance, and mostly translation.
I currently own the enterprise machine learning platform at a New Zealand bank: the strategy, the roadmap, the squad, and the path a model takes from someone's experiment to a service the organisation depends on. I write here about what that path really costs, and how to make it shorter without making it reckless.
Selected work
Platform adoption · Operating model
Improving platform onboarding as a product problem
Getting a new team productive on a shared platform took weeks. Almost none of that was technical setup.
Enterprise ML · Regulated banking
Taking a machine learning capability from experiment to production service
A well-performing model that no part of the organisation was structured to run. What it took to close that gap, and what it cost.
Frameworks
Prioritisation
Decision Under Constraint
How to prioritise when engineering, risk, compliance, security and the business all want different things and all of them are right.
Platform operating models
The Platform Responsibility Line
A platform that owns too little is ignored. A platform that owns too much becomes the bottleneck it was built to remove.
Governed adoption
Governance as a Path
Control functions are not the obstacle. Making every team rediscover the route through them is.
Writing
Contact
Worth writing to me about: questions about anything here, disagreements with any of it, and conversations with people working on the same problems inside their own organisations.