Technology & enterprise architecture
Systems that hold
Enterprise architecture, technology strategy and AI governance — two decades of making complex estates simpler, safer and cheaper. Now advising independently.
Consultancy · review governance
Tenth Chair
Code review for the AI era: nine seats, formal governance, and prompts that make AI review draw blood instead of noise.
The book
Governing Agentic AI
An architecture playbook for systems that build themselves — written from a year of running autonomous agents against real systems and real money.
Speaking & education
Say it out loud
Open to presenting at events and running education programmes — AI governance, enterprise architecture, and what agentic systems actually do when nobody is watching.
The workshop · built with AI, governed hard
Built, not just advised
Three AI-built systems running in production: Pendragon, an autonomous market-research and trading engine under pre-registered kill criteria; Atlas, an honest niche-tester for creative sellers; and Samson, the strength log that replaced two subscriptions.
Longitude Press · travel colouring books
Drawn from the road
Fifteen destinations, every plate hand-drawn from a real photograph taken on the road. No stock images. No AI.
Fiction · writing as C J Newsome
Three novels on the shelf
Echo's Call, Gaia and Britannia — rebel witches, drowned cities, and a country up for sale. On Amazon now.