I run discovery research upstream of R&D and innovation, long in the field, establishing what is shifting before anyone has written a brief for it. The work requires oscillating between individual issues and broader societal challenges at higher levels of complexity.

I work on the systems societies depend on and cannot switch off. My current terrain is financial infrastructure at every scale: personal finance, mobile money, neobanks, fast payment systems and digital rails, the cash cycle, sovereign monetary architecture, sovereign AI and the global stacks clearing above all of it.

The work ranges from sense-making and rapid ethnographic deep dives to rich future scenarios and mapping innovation tracks. I have a reputation for uncovering structural issues, framing paradigms and asking new and relevant questions that open up space for change-making.

I build worlds: futures with their own economies, materials and rules, rendered close enough to walk into. Artefacts, images and stories that hold together when you look closely.

The fieldwork feeds this. What I find on the ground is stranger and more specific than anything I would invent, and it is what makes a world stand up.

Since 2010 I have been experimenting with generative arts, exploring how AI can enhance creativity, knowledge work, future thinking and imagination in strategic design.