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Helix.ai

Research website for an AI lab

Design & frontend · Built the public research site

This Helix.ai project was a research website intended to explain an AI lab's work to both technical and non-technical visitors. The engagement covered the site's visual design and frontend implementation, not the underlying research platform.

Designed and built a research site for an LLM lab.

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RaceMake

Live telemetry and analysis for sim racers

Interim technical lead · Led architecture, team and delivery

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RaceMake helps sim racers understand their driving through live car and lap data, AI-assisted analysis and interactive 3D visualisations. The interim technical leadership role covered architecture, team leadership and delivery across the desktop app, web app and the data pipelines connecting them.

Led architecture and delivery across a Rust/Tauri desktop app and React web app.
Rebuilt both clients around extensible high-frequency telemetry pipelines and per-game adapters.
Built an AI pit team and interactive 3D visualisations on top of live telemetry.

racemake.com

#rust #tauri #typescript #react #nextjs #telemetry #llms #leadership

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WithSeismic

Independent product engineering and growth

Founder · Scoped, built and supported 100+ client engagements

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WithSeismic is an independent product-engineering business that builds software, analytics and marketing automation for client teams. As founder and sole operator, the role spans finding the commercial problem, scoping the work, designing and building the solution, and supporting it after launch.

Delivered 100+ product-engineering engagements over 10 years for clients including Framer, The Motley Fool, Groupon, Contra and Weedmaps.
Scoped, priced, delivered and supported every technical build independently.
Runs a fixed ten-business-day, £12,000 Revenue Loop Sprint that finds one material commercial leak and ships one corrective system into production.

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withseismic.com

#typescript #react #nextjs #nodejs #python #llms #aws #gcp #postgres

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Living mockups

Editable 3D product mockups with live screens and LED walls

Design & engineering · Built the scenes, surface mappings and inline editor

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A set of Three.js product scenes — a newspaper, a phone in hand, a reflection room and an industrial laptop — where every screen, page and LED surface is a live, editable texture rather than a flat render.
The headline and the artwork are edited inline; the change lands on the curved wall, the reflections and the phone display at once, because each surface is mapped back to one shared source.
Backgrounds are generated, the reflection and emissive shaders are hand-written, and the whole set runs in the browser at interactive frame rates.
Part of the Studies & Experiments gallery: a collection of standalone scenes that can be dragged, played and inspected.

Open the study How it was built

#typescript #react #nextjs #motion #designsystems

Doug Silkstone

From a napkin sketch to a year of full tables

In November 2024, Dinners With Friends was a revived idea and a napkin sketch. By the start of September 2026, it had welcomed more than 500 guests across 50 dinners. Dates were routinely selling out six to eight weeks ahead, and nearly all of the remaining 2026 calendar was booked.

Pamela Silkstone first ran the concept twenty years earlier: put people who have never met around one table, give them a host, and make the first conversation easier. I took the relaunch from idea to first version, first paying customers and a business with more demand than seats. Along the way I built the brand, website, booking system, internal tools, mobile app and the search programme that now brings new people in.

The search programme delivered 5,530 Google clicks in June–August 2026, up 66.1% on the previous three months, alongside 381,345 search impressions. Building and maintaining a library of local guides gave the business a way to be discovered by people looking for food, activities and places to meet across Exeter and Devon.

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dinnerswithfriends.co.uk