Writing

On AI strategy, product management, and building data platforms that serve frontline workers in water, sanitation, and global development.

Diagram showing the public-interest trust framework as the point of intervention in the AI discovery layer

What AI Can Find Is Not What AI Should Trust

Building a public-interest assurance layer so AI agents can find resources that are trustworthy, fit for purpose and useful to governments.

Could a Public-Interest Discovery Layer Create $1 Billion a Year in Value?

The assumptions, arithmetic, evidence and limits behind an estimate of the public value of trusted agentic resource discovery.

Building for the Future: An AI Strategy for WASH Data

Our users are showing up with AI agents, and the question for every data platform is no longer whether agents will arrive, but whether you've built them a proper way in. The design principle, the MCP server, and four lessons from shipping AI for 390,000+ users.

From local ambition to institutional capability

How Solstice helps people and institutions turn locally grown ambition into systems they can operate, adapt, and make their own.

Agent-Boundary Uncertainty

The Hugging Face incident makes it clear a missing mode of alignment discourse is to ask which boundary contains the thing we are trying to align.

“mWater is the backbone of the WASH sector”

Reflections from Stockholm World Water Week 2026. On trust, software velocity, the network effects of interconnected features, and why the impact could be tenfold greater still.

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Nine Months of Workflows in mWater

Nearly ten thousand workflow instances across 170+ types. Repair, maintenance, connections, procurement, and more. What we've learned from seeing workflows deployed at scale, and why defined processes are a multi-million-dollar opportunity for the WASH sector.

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mWater Launches Horizon: A Free Flood and Rainfall Awareness App

A free app that helps individuals anywhere in the world understand their risk from riverine flooding and heavy rainfall, built on GloFAS, ECMWF, EUMETSAT, and NASA data.

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Introducing the mWater Integrator: AI-Powered Data Import and Export

Connect any external data source to mWater, or share mWater data with any external system, using plain language. AI builds the integration for you.

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From Assets to Accounting: A New Era of Free, Integrated Management for Water Utilities

Customer and billing management plus a complete double-entry accounting suite for water utilities, and why their true power lies in their integration.

Asset Systems in mWater: Mapping Entire Water Systems

Freely map and track all of your water system assets anywhere in the world: sources, tanks, pipes, valves, and meters, with hierarchies, dashboards, and the USAID-funded Water System Management Standard.

Earlier writing on Medium

Digitizing operations and maintenance, unlocking finance for small water providers, national WASH data management in Malawi, and more.

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