Writing
Notes & articles
Thinking out loud on payments, carbon data, AI in practice, and building products in small teams.
- Carbon Intelligence Platform Earthchain's platform for turning everyday business data into auditable emissions figures, with an AI assistant built in.
- Twenty years in payments technology Card authorisation systems, payments testing and mission-critical platforms for international financial institutions, 2002–2021.
- Least-privilege AI tooling: the SIGNALS MCP server Giving an AI assistant read/write access to exactly one spreadsheet and nothing else.
- Sail Forecast A rolling 14-day view of which days are actually worth going sailing, with tide-safe passage plans.
- Real-world ship traffic in X-Plane 12 A native C++ plugin that puts live AIS vessel positions into the flight simulator as 3D ships.
- Smart helm: NMEA 2000 instruments on a rotary knob Turning a 1.3" round rotary display into a reconfigurable boat instrument, from sensor to CAN bus to screen.
- The uneventful passage Last time I wrote about sailing, I focused on a blown-out clew. This time I was woken at 3:41am by a loud thump. Not a line
- Performance and failure share the same root Out on Godiva - my 1977 Hallberg-Rassy, undergoing restoration - single-handed from Hartlepool to Scarborough, the conditions came together beautifully. Clean but strong wind, bright water, the boat
- From Annual Carbon Reports to Operational Sustainability It’s March 2026. Your finance team is closing Q1 with a real-time dashboard. Meanwhile the sustainability team is still trying to reconstruct 2025, digging through utility
- There’s AI… and Then There’s AI for Emissions Data AI is now everywhere in corporate software - for better or for worse. Slide decks glow with it. Spreadsheets claim to have it. Chat tools happily explain it. The
- Four ways we use AI to accelerate carbon reporting AI can fundamentally transform the way data is gathered for carbon accounting by simultaneously addressing several challenges associated with the process. When most people think of AI, chatbots
- Is Scope 3 Too Big To Swallow? Where is the "orchestration layer" to integrate the various standards, specialised platforms, tools and surveys for consumption and emissions data into one unified view of corporate