Live / active development
Trigger SMARTS
Operational product / hospitality signage
A hotel-signage problem became a multi-hotel operating system through successive working versions.
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I have worked across publishing, specialist information, operations, software and digital products, often in projects that have changed shape over time. Some of the work here lasted for years; some was a bounded piece of research, implementation or problem-solving. The selection at the top is deliberately edited. The wider index underneath gives a broader view of the projects, roles, products and experiments behind it.
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Selected current work
Three current projects with very different starting points.
Ongoing publishing and R&D
Richard Craven / Cravenverse
Publishing / archive / corpus
A long-running publishing relationship expanded into books, structured literary material, archive reconstruction and editorial tools.
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Live / deployed product
Lettings Compliance Checker
Compliance / digital product
A landlord-facing application built around explicit rules and inspectable compliance logic, with AI kept outside the authoritative evaluation path.
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The wider work
The projects above are a selection, not a complete account. The index below is broader. It includes current and recent work, earlier roles and projects, reusable tools and experimental work. The categories describe what each item is doing on this page; they are not a claim that every part of the career belongs to one continuous sequence.
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Current and recent work
- Trigger SMARTSProductHospitalitySystemsA multi-hotel signage and operations platform developed through three working generations.→
- Richard Craven / CravenversePublishingArchiveCorpusOngoing publishing work alongside structured literary, archive and editorial-system development.→
- Lettings Compliance CheckerComplianceRulesProductA live landlord-facing product built around deterministic compliance logic.→
- Interactive Professional PortfolioPortfolioAIWordPressThe professional evidence and question-answering environment behind Ask Niche Clever.→
- London DrawingPublishingVideoWorkflowAn ongoing client relationship spanning a historical commercial video library and current successor-workflow investigation.→
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Earlier work
- Reed Business InformationRoleFinanceEditorialStructured banking and country-reference information, with editorial responsibility for country-report material.
- Institute of Physics PublishingRolePublishingLeadershipPublishing administration, business development and later publisher responsibility across a scholarly list.
- Quantitative FinancePublicationFinanceJournalLaunch, development and later publisher responsibility for the journal.
- MoneySciencePublishingCommunityFinanceQuantitative-finance publishing, curation, specialist information, training and online community infrastructure.
- Thematic CapitalConsultancyPlatformFinanceRequirements analysis, client liaison, content/data modelling, platform configuration and training.
- FIX/FPL platform stewardshipPlatformConfigurationTrainingRequirements translation, configuration, testing, change support, demonstrations and user enablement.
- Passport SystemsMigrationWordPressHandoverMigration from a long-lived specialist environment to a more maintainable WordPress system.
- IMLPO operationsRoleOperationsMembershipMembership, subscriptions, events, publishing, suppliers, digital systems and organisational handover.→
- Aurora UK launchResearchPropositionLaunchUK market research, proposition development, experimental campaign design and live launch support.→
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Tools & reusable infrastructure
Some tools begin inside larger projects and then become reusable in their own right. This section is deliberately compact: it records working infrastructure without pretending every component is a standalone commercial product.
- WP Digital Display ManagerWordPressPluginInfrastructureReusable WordPress infrastructure for managing digital display and signage content.
- EventStream HubWordPressPluginInfrastructureA reusable event-oriented WordPress plugin developed independently of any single client project and reused elsewhere.→
- WP Mapping EngineWordPressMappingActive developmentA reusable WordPress mapping layer developed from Extraction Workbench geography work, designed to publish reviewed geographic data into interactive map and location experiences.
- AskFolioWordPressPluginPortfolioThe reusable WordPress/plugin layer behind Ask Niche Clever and the site’s professional-portfolio interface.→
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Experimental work
- Experimental · R&DThe Digital ArchaeologistAI agentsToolingExplorationRecovers and organises project history, separating source material from later interpretation and keeping work transferable between people and agents.→
- Experimental · R&DThe Literary MachinePublishingKnowledgeExperimentAn in-progress system for turning a public-domain text into a structured, versioned edition package for multiple publication outputs.