Welcome to the signalling page of my website. Here I will state what I have done previously, going over some highlights, akin to a slightly expanded resume. The genealogy of thought section is intended to help you build a better model of me culturally (in my opinion, the thing that actually matters more).
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Welcome to the signalling page of my website. Here I will state what I have done previously, going over some highlights, akin to a slightly expanded resume. The genealogy of thought section is intended to help you build a better model of me culturally (in my opinion, the thing that actually matters more).
Education
- University: UC Berkeley (dropped out) — Applied Mathematics & Philosophy. Fall 2025, CA, USA. Dropped out at the end of freshman fall to focus full time on REIUK LTD. Go Bears!
- High School: Sevenoaks — International Baccalaureate — Higher Level: Math AI, English Literature, Economics; Standard Level: Physics, Philosophy, Spanish. Graduation Year: 2025, Kent, UK.
Professional experience
Founder, REIUK LTD — Dec 2025 – Present
- Software agency using proprietary multi-agent systems combined with skilled human developers. 'Centaur' teams delivering finished products multiples faster at the same or better quality
- AI-native, compliant, security-assured, safety-first (human in the loop) software with cutting-edge architecture
- Team is ex-Berkeley and Cambridge, with prior work across fintech, generative AI in chemistry, ML, cryptography, prediction markets and AI agent tooling
- Leading complex, novel next-gen solutions, as well as custom boutique software development and research for 250+ person companies you'd recognise
Finster AI, AI Engineering Intern — Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
- Built real-time market data scraping system serving 40+ UBS analysts
- Developed AI agent capable of converting financial analysis into presentation decks
- Created citation management tool ensuring regulatory compliance across file formats
The Sunday Diplomat, Head of Technology — May 2023 – May 2025
- Managed the marketing, software and social media aspects of an international network of 40+ student writers and editors spanning six continents
- Coded and implemented an NLP-based AI for Instagram posts, helping grow it naturally to around 5,000 followers, and helping increase traffic on the main site by 30%
- Helped scale UK's largest sixth-form publication to tens of thousands of readers across 100+ countries
Founder and Lead Programmer, Avarice Coins — Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
- Generated $3K revenue selling to 100+ clients
- Built task automation algorithms and discord bots
Highlighted honors
- IASEAI '26 Poster Presentation (TruthBot — AI manipulation detection) (2026)
- Team UK for Calisthenics (3rd nationally in Power, 24th in the 2025 WSWCF World in Bulgaria) (2025)
- Sevenoaks Mathematics Faculty Prize (Highest math prize in school, annually) (2024)
- Won Silver at Eton Debating Championship (nationwide tournament) (2023)
Academic & professional extracurriculars
- Was part of Berkeley AI Safety Initiative (BASIS) in technical reading group track; previously part of working groups on mechanistic interpretability (particularly steering vectors)
- Made £XXK with crypto
- I code (python, typescript, solidity) @ https://github.com/JNC4 (mostly private repos)
- Sevenoaks Politics Society, Founder and President (school hosted Chancellor of the Exchequer / Head of the UK Fed)
- Sevenoaks Math Club, President (provided math tutoring and Olympiad prep)
- Sevenoaks Debate Club, Debate Team/Coach (trained younger student team to compete at Oxford nationals and win bronze at Eton)
- Personal trainer for 10+ clients
- Poetry/short story writer, recognized by Caleb Femi, the Young People's Laureate for London
- Learning Mandarin, lived 2 years with a Chinese roommate
- Top 10% of teams at Junction Hackathon 2024 in Helsinki, Finland
- Volunteered 2 years to be front of house for my school's performances, and for half a year to help teach primary-school kids
Athletics
- Team UK in Calisthenics (Streetlifting, under 80kg), where I placed 24th worldwide
- Skiing Level 8/9 (CO system)
- Black Belt- First Dan, Taekwondo; Taught for half a year as a Junior Instructor
- Played with the 1st XI (First Team) in field hockey as a fullback
- Other: I like to climb mountains, efoil, and am getting my skydiving A license
Intellectual frameworks
Roughly speaking I've been influenced the most by the three frameworks of:
- Christianity: I was an agnostic for a long time, but recently converted. I believe the resurrection happened as a historical event, that a necessary reality exists, and that the anthropic argument for a creator deity is convincing.
- Rationality: I am talking about the '21st century movement' which is EA-adjacent, emphasises bayesian stats, focused on AI safety, etc. I would describe myself as rationalist-adjacent considering I have heavy metaphysical, religious, cultural and values based splits from what would be considered more orthodox rationalism. However, I began reading the sequences at 13, and have derived a huge amount of value from the models presented or solidified by the rationalist community, and would say rationalism was and is seminal to my intellectual development.
- Existentialism: Particularly that of Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche.
Important stances
- If you lived following the example that Jesus of Nazareth set, it is highly likely (>80%) that would be the best life possible. (Best life is fuzzy — more precisely: maximise your eudaimonia, plus a basket of other potentially beneficial things such as moral or spiritual growth coinciding with impactful acts.)
- AGI and then ASI is highly likely (>80%) to happen within the next 5 years.
- We do not currently have sufficient safeguards around AI and there is at least a 15% risk of total disempowerment or extinction.
- Agape and how it applies to our relationships to others is either a fundamental or the fundamental ordering principle of how we ought to live.
- If God exists, we should love others with the ferocity of lightning; If God does not exist, we should love others with the ferocity of lightning.
- It is likely (>60%) that some form of ultimate (necessary) reality exists i.e. God (not necessarily describing attributes).
- Free markets are insanely value creating — through the price signal and thus capital allocation. Government intervention in cases of market failure has historically, I think, proven itself in most cases more inefficient than the actual market failure.
- It is likely (>60%) that TradFi is replaced in the most part by DeFi in the next 10 years.
- Traditional social concepts and values are important and should not be thrown away without first deeply understanding the role they play (Chesterton's Fence).
- My beliefs are subject to change, and I am willing to discuss openly in the pursuit of truth together with anyone.
Thinkers who have influenced me
Roughly in descending order but hard to pick and significant lossy compression:
- Jesus/The Bible: everything
- Nietzsche: Existentialism/Ubermensch, psychology, many other assorted
- Aristotle: logic/syllogism, flourishing, assorted
- John Locke: empiricism, liberalism, assorted
- Francis Bacon: falsification
- Plato: metaphysics, assorted
- Kierkegaard: silence, existentialism, faith
- Buddhist Tantra: monstrosity and nobility, horror and beauty, non-duality, suffering
- G.K. Chesterton: writing, faith, social systems, assorted
- C.S. Lewis: faith, assorted
- David Hume: empiricism, guillotine, assorted
- von Neumann: game theory, assorted
- Eliezer Yudkowsky/LessWrong: rationality
- Thomas Bayes: bayesian statistics
- Scott Alexander/ACX: rationality, psychology, writing, assorted
- Thomas Aquinas: faith, reason
- Socrates: communication, humility, assorted
- Johann Goethe: assorted
- Kurt Gödel: metaphysics, logic, faith, assorted
- Bryan Caplan: economics, psychology, assorted
- René Descartes: metaphysics, faith, assorted
- Wittgenstein: language & linguistics, assorted
- Kolmogorov: information, assorted
- Robin Hanson: economics, social systems, assorted
- Georg Cantor: faith, infinity
- Carl Friedrich Gauss: faith, assorted
- Montesquieu: separation of powers, political philosophy, assorted