Writing
Notes & articles
Thinking out loud on payments, carbon data, AI in practice, and building products in small teams.
- 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
- Black Boxes Can we abstract complex science into a "black box" to emphasise actionable insights over the minutiae of debate ? This week I participated in a Climate Fresk,
- Green Slopes Reflecting on the pristine, snow-laden Alps of my 1980s childhood starkly contrasts with today's dwindling winters, making it impossible to ignore climate change's
- Aligning Business Strategies with Global Climate Goals This week France announced possible jail terms for company directors who fail to fulfil the CSRD reporting requirements The urgency to address climate change has never been more
- Sustainable Business: No Longer Optional "Leaders who fail to understand this are not only wrong, they are also risking their very existence" Gone are the days when sustainability in business was
- Using chatbots to automate testing I guess most development teams use IM / chatrooms for general communication amongst the team. At Infraxis we do that too - we have a distributed team across the globe