CEO, Tortoise AI | 20 years getting AI into production
I build AI for environments where failure is not an option — defence, nuclear, aviation and now live sports broadcasting!
When the frameworks I need don't exist, I build them open source.
ARMM — Agent Reliability Maturity Model
Assessing organisational readiness to deploy AI agents in production.
Four dimensions. Five levels. Weakest-link principle. CC BY 4.0.
Decision Latency Framework (coming 2026)
A scoring methodology for knowing how much time a decision should take.
pda-platform
Open infrastructure for AI-enabled project delivery. Universal PM data
parser, MCP servers for Claude integration, AI reliability tooling. MIT.
agent-task-planning
AI reliability framework with confidence extraction and outlier mining.
Multi-provider. Production guardrails. MIT.
pm-data-tools
Universal parser for project management data. 8 formats + NISTA. MIT.
ARMM Assessment Tool
Interactive self-assessment across 251 criteria. AGPL-3.0.
Universal Dashboard Specification
Vendor-neutral declarative format for AI-native analytical dashboards.
Apache 2.0.
From Policy to Practice (2026)
An open framework for AI-ready project delivery.Ant Newman.
CC BY 4.0.
I publish on AI deployment, decision-making under complexity, and what production-grade reliability actually requires.
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