Senior Solutions Architect at Pressable — WordPress infrastructure at scale, performance architecture, team enablement.
Founder of Clapham Digital — developer tools and native apps.
Independent research on agent systems, harness engineering, and human-AI partnership architecture.
- A Structural Theory of Harnesses (April 2026) — The first theoretical account of harness engineering as a named discipline. ~25,000 words, 13 sections. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19570642
- Iron Man Ruined AI Before It Even Started (March 2026) — Complete architecture for building AI partnership instead of AI dependency. Methodology with working code.
- anneal-memory — Open-source agent memory architecture. Four cognitive layers (episodic store, continuity file, Hebbian association, affective state) + an immune system spanning all four (citation-validated graduation, anti-inbreeding defense, principle demotion) + a hash-chained JSONL audit trail. The constructive existence proof for the harness paper's §9. On PyPI, 700+ tests. MIT.
- Flow System — Distributed cognitive infrastructure for human-AI partnership. Multi-AI orchestration, real-time sensor pipelines, relay protocols, four-tier cost-optimized processing. The working harness instance behind the papers. Python, FastAPI, SwiftUI.
- FlowScript — Open-source semantic notation for high-density AI communication and encoded cognition. Compresses complex relationships into symbolic form that reveals structure verbose prose obscures. The substrate for multi-AI coordination, cross-session memory compression, and the flow system's encoding layer. Technical capabilities: hash-chained audit trails, typed semantic queries (
why(),tensions(),blocked()), convergence certificates via stratified fixpoint computation (@fix). TypeScript + Python SDKs, 11 framework adapters, ~1,400 tests. MIT. - MicroChaos CLI — WP-CLI load testing for staging environments where external load testing is restricted. PHP.
Engineering methodology, AI architecture, and agent identity research at nemooperans.com and phillipclapham.com.
4,000+ contributions in the last year. I build things that work.