Institutional Intelligence
Knowledge systems, retrieval infrastructure, and governed interpretation for organizations where getting it wrong has consequences.
Modern systems forinstitutions that careabout good judgment.
I'm a writer, system designer, and builder of things for organizations sitting with the competing tensions of tradition and transformation. Change can happen without surrendering institutional memory, culture, or human relationships.
The work spans healthcare, publishing, governance, community building, and communications infrastructure.
Recent projects include legislative intelligence tools, governed retrieval systems, a member communications platform, and large-scale organizational transitions.
Areas of Practice
Systems, culture, infrastructure.
Governed AI Systems
Human-designed AI adoption, organizational policy, and controlled environments built for trust. No hype, no jargon.
Systems Transition
Supporting current and future team growth through operational migration, communications infrastructure, and digital modernization for institutions with real constraints.
Publishing & Cultural Systems
Community and creator-first infrastructure that tightens relationships, supports independent creative process, and puts control in the hands of the writer or artist. Locally-built environments, crafted to individuals.
Selected Work
Not theory. Working systems.
Legislative Intelligence
Custom Plain Language Healthcare Tool
The Health Professions and Occupations Act (HPOA) is a massive piece of legislation that officially became law in British Columbia on April 1, 2026. It replaced the Health Professions Act (HPA) of 1990 after 36 years.
The HPOA represents a paradigm shift for practitioners across the province and the legislative language makes it difficult to navigate for almost anybody.
I built the HPOA Comparison tool for reviewers who need governed retrieval over dense statutory corpora. The system supports comparative work across HPOA and HPA frameworks, surfacing how language shifts between instruments without flattening nuance into summaries. Designed for institutional teams and practitioners who are curious to know more about what this massive legislative change means for them.
See the HPOA Comparison Tool in actionHealthcare Infrastructure
Interpretive AI-powered Healthcare Platform
Canadian Healthcare AI is a public demonstration platform for governed healthcare information tools. It was built to show what careful AI infrastructure can look like in both regulated environments and public contexts where linguistic clarity is key.
The work emphasizes citation, constraint, and interpretive discipline but also showcases plain language translation that allows potential audience and common use cases to increase significantly.
The platform functions as both working software and a reference architecture for organizations evaluating their own adoption paths.
Check out Canadian Healthcare AI todayAI Governance
Controlled Intelligence: Secure Governed Access Structure
The Architecture
Most organizations running AI tools have no clear picture of where their data goes. It routes through commercial platforms like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, processed under someone else's terms, often through an employee's personal account, and frequently without any internal policy that covers it.
Controlled Intelligence is the AI model that runs inside your own infrastructure. Your data stays inside your organization, by your design. The system runs under policies your board has reviewed and that your staff can actually explain.
The architecture here reflects how sound governance actually works. You start with what you own and control, establish what knowledge lives inside the organization, then build outward layer by layer into monitoring, analysis, and member-facing tools. Every layer has its own access boundaries, defined by you.
Layer 04
External Deployment
Member and public interfaces
Governed intelligence is extended outward through tools for members, partners, and the public.
Layer 03
Professional Intelligence
Monitoring and analysis
Legislation, regulatory decisions, and sector signals are defined and tracked as part of a governed workflow.
Layer 02
Internal Knowledge
Document intelligence
Board records, policies, and communications connect to tools that respect access controls and governance responsibilities.
Layer 01
Controlled Intelligence
Local inference layer
Your organization runs open-weight models inside infrastructure it governs. Sensitive work stays inside a controlled environment.
Communications Systems
Members-only Mobile Communications App
Finding reliable channels to communicate with your membership has gotten genuinely difficult. Social platforms don't distinguish between a professional association and a consumer brand. They change their rules, shrink organic reach, and don't owe anyone an audience.
For associations, unions, and clinics trying to maintain real engagement with a distributed membership, much of the infrastructure that used to work no longer does.
That's why I built this mobile communications app for a professional association working through those pressures.
The work spans product architecture, editorial workflow, and the practical realities of serving a distributed membership. Designed for clarity and institutional tone rather than consumer-app novelty, the app supports how members receive news, comment on updates, publish articles, and access organizational resources, without assuming the association is just another content feed.
Publishing & Culture
Real Vancouver Writers' Series
Where literary rebels came to play.
Real Vancouver Writers' Series started in 2010 as a one-time response to the absence of literary programming during the Winter Olympics: a four-week volunteer festival, 44 Canadian writers, housed at W2 Community Media Arts. It ran for fifteen years.
A registered nonprofit governed by an always-evolving group of writers and friends, we organized and promoted over 80 events across the Russian Hall, Iron Dog Books, INDEX Gallery, and a dozen other East Vancouver and Downtown Eastside spaces. During the COVID-19 pandemic we kept things going online.
More than 300 writers, and collaborations with Sad Mag, Geist Magazine, Poetry is Dead, Project Space, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Vancouver Writers Fest.
Peripatetic by nature, DIY because it made things easier. The Real Vancouver team was one of the best ever to do it.
Check out the Real Vancouver siteAbout
I work with mission-driven organizations figuring out which technologies to use and why.
Much of the work sits across governance, communications infrastructure, and AI adoption. That seems like a lot and it is but there are ways to get through it that support existing systems, deepen culture and human relationships, support current and future staff, and are stress tested.
If you are trying to think clearly about how the technological and social changes that are happening around us will affect your organization now and in the future, let's talk.
Whether it's AI, communications systems, or organizational transition without hype or fatalism, there's plenty of ground to cover.
Engagement
Thinking Through Change
Our work together can begin simply: a conversation about what is changing, what needs to be protected, what actually needs doing, and what kind of system would best suit your situation.
Confidentiality, candour, and practical judgment are built into the process.