Things I'm
building.

Frameworks, tools, and pilots — most of it open, all of it in service of a wider question. What's currently shipping, what's in the lab, what's quietly cooking.

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CIVIC · 2026In pilot · 3 governments

Civic Agent Framework Open AI agent framework purpose-built for civic teams: pre-baked patterns for policy drafting, public consultation, service-design, and constitutional pre-mortems.

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RESEARCH · 2025–Long-form

The Good Mind This site. Independent, ad-free, long-form writing on AI, governance, and African development. Bi-weekly. 2,400 readers and counting.

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PRODUCT · 2025Shipped · v1.4

Lemflow Workflow automation runtime for mid-sized firms — visual builder, AI step support, audit-grade run logs. In production at fourteen organisations across two continents.

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CITIES · 2026Research-in-public

The Lagos 2050 Brief An ongoing thought experiment + dataset on what a city of 25 million has to be designed for, today. Maps, models, and — eventually — a working policy memo.

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ADVISORY · ongoingOne per quarter

Selective advisory engagements One quarter, one team. AI strategy, civic technology, or the messy intersection of both. Past clients include two governments, one foundation, and a stealth-mode AI lab.

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QUIET · 2026–Cooking

Untitled book project A long-form argument on whether nations can be designed on purpose. Currently in draft three of seven. Publisher conversations ongoing. More when there is more.

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— Pilot note

"The Civic Agent Framework cut our policy-drafting cycle from six weeks to nine days, with better consultation outputs and a paper trail an auditor could love. We didn't think it was possible."

— Director, government innovation lab · West Africa 2026

Things I'mbuilding.

Things I'm
building.