15 years leading enterprise relationships at Bloomberg.
I'm genuinely interested in how frontier AI can democratise knowledge and increase individual agency in the world. The work below is what I've been building in my spare time to explore that question — prototypes, research, and production-shaped tools across frontier AI research, applied AI in finance, regulated-domain data integration, hardware-facing ML, and native iOS reference apps for working professionals.
I write Move 37 — a Substack on AI diffusion, frontier model dynamics, and what happens when knowledge work gets compressed by a factor of ten.
Genesis Engine — Evolving original abstract strategy games playable by AI agents, using LLM-as-judge evaluation across multiple Claude agent teams. Current direction: cellular automata as the rule substrate for evolvable games. Iteration across 20+ evaluation campaigns, with each generation's failure modes fed back into the constraints of the next.
t212-advisor — A Trading 212 portfolio advisor with Claude-powered analysis, rebalancing suggestions, dividend optimisation, and what-if scenarios. Python + Streamlit + Anthropic SDK.
dna-analyzer — A Flask app that cross-references AncestryDNA files against ClinVar, GWAS Catalog, and PharmGKB clinical annotations, wrapped in an editorial-magazine UI (hero photography, display typography, frosted cards). Privacy-by-design: raw files are parsed in-memory and never written to disk.
q10-drone-controller — Reverse-engineered WiFi protocol, OpenCV video pipeline, and PyTorch behavioural-cloning autopilot for the AVIALOGIC Q10 mini drone. Packet capture → protocol decode → handshake replay → autonomous flight. Packet captures and replay tooling committed as evidence of the reverse-engineering work.
tv-streamer — An LG webOS homebrew IPTV aggregator with multi-dimensional channel classification (category / language / region), HLS playback tuned for TV hardware, and a CDP → Luna bridge for scripted sideload. Packaged as a .ipk and running on-device.
CycleJames-iOS — Native SwiftUI port of my web cycling-trainer app, built because iOS Safari blocks Web Bluetooth and the PWA can't pair with smart trainers on iPhone. CoreBluetooth FTMS Indoor Bike Data parsing, ERG-mode control-point writes for resistance targeting, Swift Charts ride visualisation, NP/IF/TSS power metrics, SwiftData ride history. Shipped on the App Store (v1.1).
VoiceChangerPro-iOS — A low-latency iOS voice changer built on AVAudioEngine with FFT processing via the Accelerate framework.
BeanNote — A canvas-based slide / presentation builder in React + TypeScript with a dynamic background renderer.
JB Glossaries — A suite of three native SwiftUI iOS reference apps sharing one engine: JB Pharma (499 oncology and drug-mechanism terms), JB AI (785 model-architecture, training, and hardware terms), and JB Law (836 US-law terms across 14 categories and four reading lenses). Italic display typography, two-axis indication × category filter, full-text search across term, abbreviation, and definition. Originally a single Python tkinter pharma prototype, now ported and expanded into a multi-industry SwiftUI suite.
What was that BANG?!? (Troubador, 2026) — An illustrated science book for ages 8–12 exploring how sound travels from physics to conscious perception, built around Socratic dialogue between a child and his father. I also designed and built the marketing site. ISBN 978-1-80634-016-3.
- I learn by shipping real things, not by reading about them
- Evaluation methodology matters as much as the artifact itself
- Privacy and data handling should be design decisions, not afterthoughts
- Unknown systems are opportunities to understand deeply — not problems to route around
- AI diffusion dynamics and the economics of adoption friction
- Whether the universe is analog or digital (still unresolved, personally)
- Substrate independence, consciousness, and the ethics of building minds
- Foundational maths as a hobby and cellular automata
- Writing: Move 37
- LinkedIn: james-browne-aa230623
- Children's book: jamesbrownebooks.com