AI implementation for businesses

Hello, I'm Jon.

I help businesses find the highest-value areas where AI helps, then build the systems to make that change real.

The first principle

There are no AI experts.

AI is rewriting the rules of business. The right question is not who can sound certain. It is who has a track record of moving first successfully when the rules are being rewritten.

The edge is seeing the opportunity before the market has language for it, building before there is a template, and turning fast-moving change into systems that actually work.

Track record

Elite execution under rapid change, recognized at the world's highest levels.

McKinsey Global Institute

Built the dataset for McKinsey's award-winning Pixels of Progress.

As co-founder of 505 Economics, I built the dataset powering McKinsey Global Institute's Pixels of Progress: more than 40,000 microregions, roughly 230 times more granular than country-level analysis, measuring GDP, population, and life expectancy from 2000 to 2019.

The work combined the best of the best: LSE's #1 global ranked economic geography environment, advanced econometrics, postdoctoral academic talent, geospatial data science, and NASA satellite imagery. It turned cutting-edge research into a dataset powerful enough to reshape how one of the world's top institutions sees development.

Pixels of Progress went on to win numerous industry awards, and became a new reference point for how business and research audiences think about development: not as country averages, but as granular, local, actionable patterns. It changed the conversation for industry by making growth visible at a more precise and actionable level.

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McKinsey Pixels of Progress report visualization

230x

more granular

40k+

microregions

2000

to 2019

Dare to Care volunteers with packed care packages

Dare to Care Packages

Built one of the UK's fastest crisis-response operations from nothing.

COVID was the closest recent comparison to AI: every day, the rules changed; nobody knew what would happen next; speed, judgment, and execution mattered more than credentials or theory.

I co-founded Dare to Care Packages and built the operation from scratch: hundreds of volunteers, a warehouse, daily distribution, custom ERP technology, PPE for NHS workers, and essential supplies for vulnerable and immunocompromised people across the country. In two months, we reached half a million distributions.

Forbes recognized me in its 30 Under 30 Europe Social Impact list for this work. The lesson was simple: move first, build the system, deliver at national scale, and create impact while everyone else is still trying to understand the problem.

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Why this matters now

AI is a COVID-level discontinuity. The winners will be the ones who move first and build fastest.

In 2020, nobody had a perfect forecast. The people who mattered were the ones who could read the moment, assemble resources, build new infrastructure, and keep adapting as reality changed.

AI demands the same muscle. I help businesses move from vague AI ambition to practical implementation: identifying the highest-value opportunities, building the first systems, and giving teams the capability to keep compounding as the technology improves.

More about me

Beyond the headline work, I have implemented technology inside world-leading organizations, started and scaled several successful businesses from scratch, and served as CTO across multiple companies. The through line is the same: build quickly, make the system work, and turn ambition into something real.

I have been a CEO, CTO, full-stack engineer, and director at global charities. Across all of it, I have stayed interested in social impact: work where technology does not just look impressive, but changes what people and organizations can actually do.

Beyond the case studies

If you're curious about any of this, just ask me.

AI, geospatial data, crisis operations, startups, social impact, or where all of this is going next.