I have spent my career trying to understand how people come to know things, and how to build tools that make that easier. What follows is the through-line.
Fig. 02 Self portrait. R-pod and the Bob Marshall, summer 2024.
Undergraduate work in Halifax, at King’s College and Dalhousie. An MA at the University of Leeds. A PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science at Arizona State. My dissertation was on counterfactual evolutionary theories from the 1880s to 1920s, asking what biology would have looked like if a few key intellectual moves had gone differently.
Then I taught writing at Duke for three years, including the inaugural writing course at Duke Kunshan University in China.
Since 2017 I have worked across tech in roles that look unrelated until you trace the through-line. Chief of Staff to an entrepreneur. Co-founder of a publisher serving senior and dementia care. Onboarding lead at a telehealth company with over a hundred thousand users. Product and QA leadership at ShyftLabs, an enterprise software consultancy with clients including Petco and AmeriVet.
In each role, the work that mattered most was the same: figure out how a system actually behaves, name what it does, and build the tools to keep it honest.
The qualities that cost me in certain rooms are the ones this work requires. Montana has a clarifying effect on that.
Five continents. Thirty-six places called “home for now.” I moved to the Flathead Valley in 2019, pre-COVID, to be near family. Schuyler, who I grew up with in Seattle, told me years ago that if I ever visited Montana I would not leave. He was right.
Montana is where home is. The studio sits in Columbia Falls, fifteen miles from the west entrance of Glacier. The work goes out from here.
Through BeargrassAI, I build websites and business memory systems for small businesses in the Flathead Valley. My clients are mostly solo operators: a luthier, a fine jeweller, others. The owner is the only employee and every tool has to earn its keep.
Alongside the client work, I have built an agent-first operating system for my own business. A multi-agent AI system called Jayson that runs my practice: it remembers decisions, tracks projects, reads my calendar, and starts each session knowing where we left off.
The architecture is also the basis for a writing and research project on how AI systems behave when they are built for serious practitioner use, published at Reflective Practitioner. My provisional patent on AIPassWeb, a comprehension-based verification mechanism for AI agent context integrity, was filed with the USPTO in April 2026.
The partnership between BeargrassAI and CubCloud AI (Missoula, Montana) is one of the things I am most excited about right now. CubCloud builds the compute infrastructure for organizations that need AI running on their own hardware, not someone else's cloud. I bring the practitioner-side: systems already running in production, and clients in the Flathead who need both.
We co-present at Flathead Valley Community College on May 21, 2026, offering an introduction to AI for small business owners. A joint education program for small businesses is in creation now, launching in June.
She has strong opinions about which trails are worth walking.
Sinopah is the studio dog. She is named for a Blackfeet woman whose face is on a mountain in Glacier. She is half husky, half something else, and entirely her own animal.
She shows up across this site and BeargrassAI the way I do, because she is here, every day. Not a mascot. A real dog with real opinions.
Hiking the trails around Glacier and the Flathead. Running. Fishing the rivers when I can get to them. Reading widely across philosophy of science, intellectual history, and the literature of practice. Family time with my partner and Sinopah.
If you and I cross paths and you want to talk about any of that, I am easy to find. Write to me.