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Notes on spatial intelligence, spatial computing, and building experiences at the scale of cities.

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A country of geniuses

My essay for Founders magazine: how AI agents reshape business and technological sovereignty, and why one person plus AI can now do the work of a whole team.

As featured in Founders · 7 min read
AI is collapsing the cost of great content

When studio-quality video costs almost nothing to make, the constraint stops being budget and becomes imagination. What that means for creators, agencies, and brands.

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Guided AI beats the magic button

Most AI tools gamble on a prompt and hope. Guided AI — real material, human control, predictable results — is what actually ships professional work.

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When your words become 3D: generative AI for spatial computing

Generative AI is leaving the flat screen — 3D objects and 360° worlds conjured from a sentence, characters you can talk to. What it unlocks, and its real limits.

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AI and human expertise: symbiosis, not replacement

The most powerful pattern in spatial computing isn’t AI instead of experts — it’s space + data + expert. Why the human stays the decision-maker.

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What spatial intelligence is — and why it’s the next layer of computing

Screens flattened the world into rectangles. Spatial intelligence puts information back into space — and changes how we design products, cities, and brands.

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The spatial intelligence stack: capture, understand, act

A simple three-layer model for spatial intelligence — and a fast way to tell a defensible product from a clever overlay with no understanding underneath.

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What changes when the interface is the world, not a screen

Spatial computing flips the smartphone posture from head-down to head-up. Here’s how that small shift rewrites context, attention, and design.

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The ethics of spatial computing: your gaze is the new data

In a headset, the platform can know where your eyes go. Why gaze is biometric data, what observational capitalism becomes in 3D, and how to set the ethics early — with one story that stays with me.

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VR space audits: designing buildings around how people actually feel

Most spaces are judged after they’re built. VR lets us test emotional response before a single wall goes up — and turn human behaviour into design decisions.

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AR crowdsourcing: putting citizens at the centre of city design

What if residents could place trees, benches, and bike lanes in augmented reality — and planners could read those decisions as data? A look at participatory urbanism.

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What building spatial tech in Dubai taught me

Why a US-registered startup moves to Dubai: a government strategy stated in concrete steps, a city-scale digital twin, “subscription citizenship”, and how credibility really works there.

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Immersive worlds: the new battleground for brands

What immersive branded worlds really are, what works for brands, and an honest reality-check from the inside. The cases, the interoperability that matters, and the myths to ignore. Adapted from a talk.

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AR for brands: turning attention into action

AR removes the “imagine it” step — people see a product in their own world before they buy. Four principles that separate real value from gimmicks.

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Designing immersive experiences for museums and culture

Immersive tech in a museum should deepen attention on the object, not compete with it. Principles for AR and VR that serve the story.

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