Consulting

Consulting

Complex-systems decision support: generative AI and simulation tools, with particular expertise in multi-agent systems.

How I can help

I help organisations make better decisions inside complex systems, where many parts interact, feedback loops bite, and simple analysis misses what matters. My tools are simulation modelling and generative AI, and my particular depth is in multi-agent systems: from a PhD in multi-agent coordination, through agent-based models that shaped health policy, to today's multi-agent AI. And I build what I design. Three decades as a working software developer mean the systems I specify are ones I can also ship.

Over two decades I have done this for government health departments, research institutions, and field settings with almost no infrastructure. What clients get is rigour they can check and tools that keep working once the consultant leaves. Engagements range from a focused advisory conversation to the design and delivery of a complete modelling or AI system. I work as an independent consultant and can assemble a wider team when a project needs one.

Services

  1. 01 Complex-systems & multi-agent modelling Agent-based and system-dynamics models that let you test the downstream consequences of a decision before you commit resources. It is the approach behind models that have shaped state and national health policy.
  2. 02 Discrete-event modelling & simulation Discrete-event simulation of processes in which people, jobs, or items queue for limited resources, such as patient flow through hospitals and emergency departments, service capacity, and operations. The models let you test changes to staffing, capacity, and process before you make them.
  3. 03 Generative & multi-agent AI systems Design of AI systems using large language models, multi-agent and neuro-symbolic approaches, and RAG pipelines, built to be safe, fit-for-purpose, and honest about where they fail.
  4. 04 Local-first & on-prem AI AI and data tools that run on modest hardware without cloud dependency, for resource-constrained, remote, or privacy-sensitive settings where sending data offsite is not an option.
  5. 05 Health-systems decision support Data extraction, analysis, surveillance, and modelling for health systems and public agencies, turning messy real-world data into evidence decision-makers can act on.

Who I work with

  • 01 Governments and public agencies
  • 02 Health systems, NGOs, and multilateral organisations
  • 03 Universities and research institutions
  • 04 Companies needing AI systems architecture or GenAI strategy

How I work

I build in close partnership with the people who will use the tools, under the constraints they actually face. I favour methods and systems that are transparent and maintainable, and I am as comfortable with the messy reality of implementation as with the underlying mathematics.

The value sits in the gap between computational precision and a decision someone actually has to make. That is where I do my best work.

Work with me

If you have a problem where complex-systems modelling or a well-architected AI system could help, I would be glad to talk it through.

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