Work grouped by the problem domain, not by whatever happened to be built last.
Hospitality and culinary systems come first. Independent builds sit separately so the professional record stays legible while the wider product-thinking work remains available.
Every case study states what it can prove, what it cannot, and where the underlying evidence came from.
Hospitality & culinary systems
Operational systems and culinary products grounded in professional kitchens, contract catering and food-business problems.
Case study · Multi-site production
Complexity made usable
7 halls of residence, three production kitchens, 5,000+ daily covers and 100+ staff across the operation. The problem was never effort. It was information.
System design · Work in practice
The final service is part of the production system
Central production only succeeds if food is regenerated, assembled and served correctly at the far end. That is where most of the risk sits.
Case study · Culinary knowledge systems
From a working reference to a chef-first culinary system
Eight builds asking eight harder questions. Some versions got too broad — that is in here too, because recognising it and correcting it is the part worth showing.
Case study · Operational product design
A sample model of what an operational hub can do
A new food business faces eleven hard questions at once and usually meets them one crisis at a time. This is a working model of what it looks like when they are laid out as one pathway — and of how far that pathway can be shaped to a given business.
Direction · Custom iterations
What a custom iteration looks like
The Spicy Noodle is deliberately general; a real operation is not. This is how the architecture would be shaped to one, worked through on the hardest example I know.
Independent builds & experiments
Self-directed products outside the core hospitality portfolio — useful because they show whether the same method transfers to unfamiliar domains.
Case study · Learning systems
Learning the theory by building the tool
Built from Scotty West's slide rule while I was learning theory myself. The most useful test of whether the method works outside a kitchen.
Independent build · Private tool
A financial command centre for a mobile working life
A local-first maritime financial planner: scenario inputs, runway, projections, milestones, actual-vs-plan tracking and exportable records. Public material is deliberately sanitised.
Case study · This website
The portfolio that had to stop being charming
It started as an Indiana Jones route map with polaroids and a compass rose. It was good fun and it was arguing the wrong thing. Fixing that took subtraction, which is the pattern.