Latent Data

Latent Data is a technical consultancy helping organisations build software, develop digital products, and improve operational efficiency through thoughtful use of data, automation, and modern tooling.

I’m a software engineer with 20+ years’ industry experience. I work directly with teams, from early strategy through to delivery, especially where the problem is messy: unstructured documents, fragmented systems, and processes with exceptions and edge cases.

Increasingly, that work includes using AI and agentic tools where they genuinely help, moving from AI gives answers” to “AI gets work done”, with the workflow design, controls, and integration needed to make outcomes repeatable, auditable, and reliable.

I specialise in:

• Technical consultancy: Providing strategic advice on architecture and system design, shaping product roadmaps, supporting offshore team management, and leading implementation.
• Rapid prototyping & pilots: Exploring ideas, building proofs of concept, validating assumptions, and demonstrating what’s possible to gather early feedback and de-risk investment.
• Technical due diligence: Independent assessments of technical and digital architectures, team capabilities, security constraints, and organisational delivery risk, with practical recommendations for what to change first.
• Automation & agentic workflows: Identifying pragmatic opportunities to improve efficiency and productivity, designing safe end-to-end workflows (observability, evaluations, human-in-the-loop), and integrating automation into real systems and teams.

I’m at my best when the value is trapped in documents, knowledge, and unstructured content, and the path to impact is careful system design, automation, and measurement.

I collaborate with a trusted network of partners, allowing me to scale delivery for larger engagements or bring in specialist expertise when required. My focus is always pragmatic, helping organisations make informed technical decisions and delivering improvements that hold up in production.

If you’d like to learn more about how Latent Data can help, please get in touch.

Current Roles – Fractional CTO

Dealscribe

I am acting as Fractional CTO for Dealscribe, which delivers technology-enabled analysis for the CLO market — structured data, market standards and deal insight for investors, managers and lawyers.

The core technical challenge is unlocking value trapped in complex, unstructured content and designing systems that deliver it reliably at scale. My focus spans product roadmap, architecture, AI-driven capabilities, and preparing the platform for its next stage of growth — including investment readiness and a robust security posture.

In parallel, I am de-risking AI adoption hands-on: building targeted prototypes, designing evaluation frameworks, and measuring solution performance before committing to production. This combination of strategic direction and practical delivery is central to what Latent Data does — helping organisations make informed technical decisions and turning deep domain knowledge into scalable, differentiated products.

All In Images

I am acting as Fractional CTO for All In Images, where I am responsible for defining the end-to-end technical architecture of the image delivery platform, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and responsible use of technology. This includes designing the systems that support image ingestion, metadata management, delivery, and integration with downstream products and partners.

In parallel, I am leading the development of the AI image generation model and its associated training pipeline. This work spans data curation and labelling, model selection and experimentation, training and evaluation workflows, and the tooling required to safely iterate and improve model performance over time.

Alongside this, I work closely with the founding team to translate product vision into a clear technical roadmap, providing both strategic and hands-on guidance. The focus is on delivering meaningful value early, while establishing strong technical foundations to support long-term growth.

Previous Work

Before founding Latent Data, I led a range of technical and AI-focused projects across publishing, legal services, and digital product development. A selection of this past work is included below to illustrate the type of challenges I now help clients solve independently. These examples reflect my individual experience prior to Latent Data and do not represent engagements delivered by the company.

Award-winning AI product development

Working closely with the editorial team at the Bone and Joint Journal, I developed an AI podcast generation tool to transform research articles into engaging audio content.

Using an innovative agentic workflow, the team were able to produce podcasts with a consistent structure, duration, tone, and style while maintaining editorial control over the final output. “AI Talks with Bone and Joint” won the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2025.

AI implementation review

Drawing on our experience delivering six AI solutions over the past 18 months, I provided an independent review of the architecture, technical approach, and implementation of a novel AI application designed to streamline the annotation of complex legal documents. Our recommendations included:

• Delivering value early by targeting low-hanging fruit for automation
• Identifying bottlenecks by introducing an observability framework
• Allowing analysts to author and experiment directly with prompt variations

Bespoke data analytics prototype

Developed a data visualisation interface for a UK publisher, demonstrating the value of their automated PIO labelling capabilities and securing funding for further product development.

Collaborated with subject-matter experts to define the desired narrative, selected technologies within the client’s existing stack, and built a complex ETL pipeline to transform long-form content into a structured, queryable dataset.

Get In Touch

If you are interested in booking an exploratory call to find out how best we can work together, please drop me an email at enquiries@latentdata.co.uk.