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An independent product-engineering consultancy. Ten years, 100+ engagements, all of it sold and shipped solo.

100+Engagements
Ten years independent3 outcomes
Doug SilkstoneGrowth Society

Growth Society

Ecommerce benchmarking for 200 UK brands

Product engineering · Built the interactive MVP in four weeks

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Growth Society's ecommerce benchmarking project turned a static industry report into an interactive way to explore and compare brands. The engagement covered building the MVP, bringing performance data, brand profiles and analyst commentary together in a web product.

  • Built an ecommerce benchmarking report in a four-week MVP sprint.
  • Compared the UK's 200 largest brands using KPIs, screenshots and analyst commentary.
#ecommerce#growth#nextjs
Doug SilkstoneSTRV

STRV

Conversational lead generation

Product engineering · Built the enquiry and qualification interface

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This project gave prospective STRV clients a conversational way to explain what they needed instead of filling out a contact form. The engineering work covered an AI chat interface that gathered project requirements and qualified enquiries before a sales conversation.

  • Built a conversational lead-generation interface.
  • Qualified inbound visitors inside the product instead of sending them through a form.
strv.com
#llms#react#typescript#growth
Doug Silkstonectxdc.com

ctxdc

Interactive context-engineering course

Design & engineering · Built the course site and simulation

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ctxdc is an eight-week course on context engineering: how to give AI systems the instructions, information and memory they need. The work covered the course site's design and implementation, using an interactive Conway's Game of Life simulation to help visitors explore the material.

  • Designed and built an eight-week LLM course around Conway's Game of Life.
  • Used the live simulation as the course map.
  • Received an Awwwards Honorable Mention.
ctxdc.com
#llms#react#typescript
Doug SilkstoneHelix.ai

Helix.ai

Research website for an AI lab

Design & frontend · Built the public research site

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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.
#llms#react#nextjs#typescript
Doug SilkstoneR&D · Internal

CS2 reinforcement-learning lab

Counter-Strike 2 reinforcement-learning lab

Engineering · Built the training environment and bot experiments

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  • Built a reinforcement-learning environment for Counter-Strike 2.
  • Trained bots against each other across thousands of compacted game hours.
#ml#simulation
Doug SilkstoneLiving mockups

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 studyHow it was built
#typescript#react#nextjs#motion#designsystems
Doug SilkstoneDigital patterns

Digital patterns

Generative poster system for an events programme

Design & engineering · Built the pattern engine, editor and export

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  • A story generator for a week of club nights: six animated pattern families — pixel, angular, wave and more — each seeded, coloured and typeset into a poster that stays legible at any scale.
  • Every field on every poster is editable in place: date, genre, headline, colour, pattern scale and animation speed, with a one-click regenerate per poster.
  • Posters export as stills for print and social, so the same system that runs on screen produces the programme's artwork.
Open the study
#typescript#react#motion#designsystems
Doug SilkstoneStudies & Experiments

Studies & Experiments

Interactive studies in 3D, shaders, sound and motion

Design & engineering · Built every scene, instrument and interaction

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  • A gallery of standalone scenes: a full event lighting show, a playable Silksong room, editable living mockups, trading cards with prismatic foil, a working Roland 303 and 909 rack, a repair bench and a gravitational-lens shader.
  • Each plate is its own build — Three.js scenes, custom GLSL, Web Audio, soft-body physics and print-style typography — and each responds to the pointer, keyboard or touch.
  • The gallery itself is a piece of the work: a printed-sheet metaphor with registration marks, tape stock and a lens that pulls back while the sheet travels, plus a presentation mode that hides every instrument for demos and recordings.
Open the gallery
#typescript#react#motion#designsystems
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What shipped

The outcomes this chapter is on the CV for.

  • 1100+ engagements
  • 2Top 1% on Contra
  • 35.0 / 5.0 rating
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Highlights

What the role actually involved day to day.

  • 1Commercial ownership
  • 2Technical delivery
  • 3Ten-year track record
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