I used to fix boilers. Now I'm building AI systems. Here's what happened in between.

I am a qualified plumber.

That is still the thing I am most proud of.

Somewhere along the way I ended up in tech. One thing led to another — I will not bore you with all of it now — but I went from trades to software, and eventually to Director of Partnerships at Simpro. Which happens to be one of the products I used in my plumbing business.

That is not a coincidence. The trades industry gave me everything. I wanted to stay close to it.

That is the job. The AI thing started in the gaps around it.

I am not a developer. I have never written a line of code. I am dyslexic — I think verbally, I dictate almost everything. And somewhere between school runs and back-to-back calls, I started building things I did not fully understand. Because I could not stop.

I now have an AI system that runs parts of my working life. It processes my voice memos. It structures my meetings. It drafts things I would otherwise have to write. For someone who has always found writing the hardest part of a professional world built on it — that is not a minor upgrade. It is a different way of operating.

I am going to document all of it here. Not the polished version. The real one — where something breaks three times before it works, and half the tools I try turn out to be useless.

If you are a professional who feels like AI is something happening to other people: it is not. You are just late to it.

So am I. That is the point.

Follow if you want to watch in real time.