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    Legal services rigour meets production AI

    The legal professional who learned to ship software.

    Most AI engineers can hand you a tool. Fewer can tell you where it should stop. I do both, because I spent 18 years where getting it wrong had real consequences.

    Playful Builds, Serious Outcomes

    One career, two useful halves

    The legal work taught scrutiny. The engineering work turned it into systems people can use.

    18 years

    The foundation

    Law and property work across Scottish legal firms, where detail, records and consequences mattered every day.

    Commercial property, rural property, plot sales, Land Register work, title data and mapping records across Scottish legal firms.
    Accredited Paralegal, Law Society of Scotland.
    Specialist Conveyancing certificate, Strathclyde University.
    SQL automation moved Land Register forms from 20 minutes to under 5.
    Bespoke case management workflows at scale.
    Since 2019

    The build

    Software engineering, automation and, since 2023, AI agent delivery across retail, legal services, charities and startups.

    AI delivery since 2023 on the Microsoft stack, with clear scope, grounded context and governed adoption routes.
    Led PetsDetect at Pets at Home, where Pets at Home publicly reported potential seven figure annual savings for the profit protection agent.
    Featured in Microsoft News for Copilot agent work at Pets at Home.
    Current AI consultancy for a legal services client.
    Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Azure OpenAI and LangGraph.

    The two halves are not separate.

    The legal years are why my agents come with boundaries, approval gates and synthetic test coverage, not clever prompts dressed up as a strategy.

    For legal services, retail and operations teams where the details matter.

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    How I Build

    Useful AI needs good engineering and honest boundaries. These are the principles I bring into the room early.

    Scope, not hype

    Agents with a clear job, grounded context and outputs people can rely on.

    Human in the loop

    Decision boundaries and approval gates where the stakes are real.

    No jargon

    Clear communication, regular updates and technology people understand.

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    Need an engineer who knows where the line is?

    Bring the messy workflow, the risk, the stakeholders and the adoption problem. I will help turn it into something scoped, testable and useful.

    Free consultation
    No commitment
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