Writing

Notes from running it.

Long-form, with numbers, once or twice a month. On systems that outlive their founders, on regulated markets, and on what buyers do when they ask an AI instead of a search engine.

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Systems
Regulated markets
AI & search
UK entry

The essay · Systems

Systems That Don't Need Me: building companies that survive their founder

Why key-person risk is the quietest killer of small companies, and the operating model I use across my companies to design it out. The piece I send investors and journalists before anything else.

2026-10-19 · 7 min read

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2026-10-19 · 5 min
Regulated markets
What 4.6 million EPC records say about who misses 2030We joined every London energy certificate to Land Registry ownership. Six per cent of the problem has a name. Here is what that means for landlords, installers and policy.
2026-10-19 · 5 min
AI & search
When the buyer asks AI: what we learned measuring four enginesThe same question, asked of four AI engines, names different businesses. Why that happens, and what a company can actually do about it.
2026-10-19 · 5 min
UK entry
Opening a UK clinic as a Turkish group: the checklist, in the right orderCQC, GDC, Companies House, banking, recruitment, fit-out. What has to happen in what order, where international groups lose time, and what I would tell anyone doing it next.
2026-10-19 · 5 min
Systems
A blog that fact-checks itself: how EPC Path publishes every 48 hours without an editorDraft, verify against the rule set, generate the chart from the data, publish. The pipeline, the failures it is designed to catch, and the one place a human still looks.