I had a few names on the shortlist, but since thinkingmachin.es was available as a domain, that’s what I went with!

First 2 colleagues joined: Pia Faustino and Ray Dino.

Niek Van Veen was trying to sell us some big data tool. I didn’t like the product, but he sold us on himself—so we lured him over instead.

Open data, open science, open source <3

Won a global hackathon against way bigger players.

Hired Ginni So, Pat Feria Lim, and Nick Huber to scale delivery & ops. Very scary to make so many “adult” hires at the time.

TM worked on our most meaningful work in health data reporting systems.

Dunbar’s number is real.

Loved these founders and these methods for management through high change.

NLP is dead, long live LLMs.