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On stage with Dorothy Seguy, to a room of senior fractional operators (CMOs, CTOs, CPOs, founders), on human-led growth and AI-assisted execution. I'll show how AI agents and workflow design help you scale outreach and follow-up, prioritize the right conversations, and cut the manual work, without automating the human side away. 24 Jun 2026
A three-day hackathon at EDGE Stadium in Amsterdam, run by Techleap as part of Amsterdam Tech Week. 48 hours, teams of five, one real person at the centre. Yasmin is 38 and was born with severe cerebral palsy. Today she speaks through an eye-controlled computer with a limited set of phrases. The challenge: build AI tools that let her communicate freely and live more on her own terms. We worked through a five-phase design sprint, from user interviews to a live jury pitch, with Yasmin and her family in the room the whole time. Every decision was tested against a real life, not a persona. The jury included Micky Adriaansens, former Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, and Yasmin's mother Marla. Our team came in second. We built a kind of Scratch for language: the way MIT's Scratch snaps code blocks together, ours snaps pictograms into sentences and whole stories. 19–21 Jun 2026 First place at Sprint Zero, the Techleap AI Hub hackathon
70 builders, around 20 teams, two rounds. ABN AMRO's challenge: tell whether the human on a banking video call is real. Instead of another deepfake detector, our team flipped it and built an app that proves a real person is present. It runs alongside any call with no plugins, reading LiDAR depth, rPPG and motion signals plus an ultrasonic fingerprint, scoring trust live and exchanging signed proofs over a secure channel. Demo and pitch built in two hours, judged to first place by a jury including Daniel Gebler (Picnic), Leonard Bukenya (Codam) and Lethabo Motsoaledi (Voyc). The prize: six months of full AI Hub membership for the team, worth €10,000, starting when the hub opens in September. 28 May 2026
I'm building an AI operating system from scratch
Not a chatbot, an operator. A personal AI operating system that plans, decides, and executes the real work across everything I do. It runs inside Conductor on Claude Code and remembers across sessions, so its reasoning compounds instead of starting from zero. It breaks work into small, self-contained packages — each one opens its own session on its own branch, does a single job, and closes against a written definition of done. And each job goes to the right model: a frontier model to orchestrate, smaller ones to synthesize and search, a local one for the cheap work.
It holds itself to the kind of engineering discipline you'd expect from a team, not a side project: a handful of firm principles, backed by checks that actually run. Nothing ships unless the code compiles, the tests pass, the internal layers stay separate, and no private data can leak into anything public. It even learns — my corrections get turned into permanent improvements, with my sign-off before any of it sticks.
I build the whole thing in the open, including the part most people hide: the first version failed, and I document exactly why. Every decision is recorded with its reasoning, so nothing gets re-litigated and the learning compounds. And the parts that prove themselves I release as free skills, prompts, and patterns you can drop straight into your own setup.
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The parts that prove themselves become products you can plug straight into your own setup. First up:
Agent dashboard
See what your AI agents are doing, what they cost, and where the money goes — live, across Claude Code, Codex, and local models. It shows how much each one reuses instead of paying for twice, how close you are to your limits, and a short write-up of every session. It runs on your own machine. Nothing leaves it, and there's no service to sign up for.
Paid · coming soon