Technology should disappear.Understanding should remain.
I help boards, executives and founders make difficult technology decisions, and build the systems those decisions require. Based in Basel, working internationally.
Find your way through the Studio
Orientation
Complex organisations increasingly depend on AI, cloud platforms, data systems, and vendors they cannot fully inspect, operate, or replace.
I help leaders understand where control has been lost, make defensible technology decisions, and build systems that remain operable under real regulatory, organisational, and technical pressure.
A system needs attention
For questions involving AI architecture, operational ownership, digital sovereignty, cloud dependency, infrastructure resilience, or technology decisions that must withstand scrutiny.
I want to explore the ideas
Field Notes and longer investigations into AI, sovereignty, infrastructure, preparedness, systems, and trust.
I want to understand the person
The experience, working principles, public contributions, and path behind the Studio.
The Rooms
Beyond the Entrance Hall, the Studio is arranged as rooms of attention. The drawing shows those rooms — not a workshop floor.
Primary rooms
The Library
Essays, field manuals and evidence.
Enter the LibraryThe Workshop
Advisory, architecture and systems built.
Enter the WorkshopThe Study
Experience, principles and current practice.
Enter the StudyConversation
Bring a question or situation.
Begin a conversation
Further rooms
The Archive
What has proven itself — not current, not forgotten.
Enter the ArchiveThe Lecture Hall
Talks, interviews and organiser information.
Enter the Lecture HallVoices from the Workshop
Traces left in people who shared the work.
Enter Voices from the WorkshopThe Observatory
Examine a dependency or operating model.
Enter the Observatory
Work grounded in practice
- More than two decades across systems, infrastructure, architecture, and delivery.
- At MachinaLabs, our team built the AI-powered Kurz Notiert service for Basler Kantonalbank and Bank Cler.
- Work spanning sovereign AI, financial technology, resilient infrastructure, and systems that must hold under auditors, regulators, and real operations.
- Author of Panopticon 2.0 and contributor to the CFA Institute Research & Policy Center.
Work you can inspect
- The Studio — a working publishing system
Keep multilingual writing, evidence and editions understandable to readers and agents.
- AI Constitution
Retain instructions across agent sessions without overwriting each project’s rules.
- Engawa — an appointed door for agents
Give a visitor’s assistant reliable public material without exposing private operating tools.
Voices from the WorkshopA rare combination of deep technical expertise, reliability, and entrepreneurial thinking. Under pressure he stayed calm, focused, and fully committed to delivering results.
Next appearances
Confirmed dates — a door to the event, not a booking form.
Kickoff Kapitalbrücke beider Basel
Startup Academy Basel & Startup Academy Baselland · FHNW Campus Dreispitz, Dornacherstrasse 394, 4053 Basel
Event details and registration
Foundational reading
Three starting points for the Studio’s enduring questions. Follow current writing through the MEMEX above.
Human Sovereignty in the Age of Machine Intelligence
The singularity may not have arrived. The sovereignty question already has.
Open this volumeSovereignty Is Lost One Optimisation at a Time
Path dependency, lock-in, and why locally rational choices quietly outsource national and organisational autonomy.
Open this volumeBitcoin Between Cash and Collateral
The technology didn't fail. We changed what success meant.
Open this volume