01 // Available
Available for permanent senior roles
I run complex programmes where technology, narrative, and people have to work together; then I build the systems that stop them coming apart.
My work spans games, media, research, consulting, and civic tech. I’m a Fellow of the RSA.
I’ve been part of the solarpunk movement since 2014. I’m co-author of The Superdark Factory: Toward the Full Automation of Software (Antikythera / MIT Press, 2026) and a Fellow of the RSA.
02 // How I work
Production & Programme Leadership
Complex multi-discipline projects from discovery through shipping. Milestones, delivery cadence, scope control, and cross-functional coordination.
Operating models, governance, decision rights, and reporting.
Operations & Systems
Building and repairing the systems that make organisations work. Process design, KPI frameworks, board-level reporting, revenue operations, forecasting, headcount modelling, contracts, and SOWs. CRM implementation, workflow design, and operational infrastructure from scratch.
Strategy & Research
Operating models for techno-social systems. Scenario design, evaluation, benchmarking, synthesis. Futures thinking, horizon scanning, speculative design. AI agent research and evaluation; governance and observability for autonomous systems. Research briefs and strategic frameworks for leadership teams. Community and participation design; norms, permissions, cultural coherence.
Communication & Public Voice
International conference speaker; Ars Electronica, Sonar+D, Transmediale, and others. Two podcasts, a long-running editorial practice, and published work with MIT Press; writing online since 2009. Teaching, workshop facilitation, executive writing. If you need someone who can represent the work in public, I already do that.
03 // Selected work
- Off Grid: Red Team — Senior Producer / Operations Lead on a multi-discipline indie game vertical slice. Nominated for 2025 GALA Games Award.
- The Superdark Factory (Antikythera / MIT Press, 2026). Co-author, with the Disintegrator team, of a paper on how to build and govern self-directing software organisations.
- BBC Future of the Social Internet — Expert contributor (2025)
- CMF Annual Trends Report — Research contributor (2023)
- The O’Ruggin Trail — Created and shipped an on-chain interactive fiction game and engine end-to-end
- AI agent evaluation — In 2024 I explored building an agent evaluation startup. But it deeply clarified the shape of the problem space.
- Advisory — Novara Media, Common Knowledge, Cosmogenesis (others under NDA)
- Operations — Former Operations Manager and Product Manager. Salesforce implementation, revenue ops, process redesign, project management, technical consultancy.
- Teaching — Instructor at The New Centre for Research & Practice
- Solarpunk — Co-administrator of solarpunks.net since 2014; published fiction longlisted for the BSFA Award; essays, interviews, and international talks on futures thinking and cultural imagination.
What I’m looking for
I’m looking for a permanent senior role, at Head of, Lead, or Director level, where I own something and stay long enough to build it properly: Head of Production, Research Lead, Strategy Lead, Head of Innovation, Senior Programme Manager, or a role that doesn’t have a name yet.
London-based; remote or hybrid.
My writing on worlds as a medium is collected at worldrunning.guide. My writing on AI is collected here, and my writing on agents & companion design is here.
I’ve been writing online at thejaymo.net since 2009.
04 // Work with me now
Getting in touch: the best route is through an existing relationship if you have one; otherwise drop me a line directly.