Left Aon in 2019 and launched an eCommerce platform for preventive health during the pandemic, with thirty contractors and solo-led work on Figma, Wix AI Design, Canva, and Notion. Then ChatGPT dropped and from late 2022 I spent two years trying to build a legal tech startup while pursuing a legal trainee role.
2024 and 2025 were even rougher. Homeless on and off, living in backpacker hostels between super short term flat shares, defending legally from libelling constant attacks. But in 2025 I learned to code from Grok and Copilot, and tested every AI creative tool I could: Hedra, Kling, Flux, Veo, Flow and Stitch by Google Labs, Seeedance, Hunyuan, Wan. Claude for data visualisation and code.
Then came the physical pain of walking miles to libraries to use Tableau and Adobe on time-limited PCs (dealing with vertebrae micro misalignment in Iong walks), without access to my gym. So I quit the libraries PCs, and switched to AI-native workflows only, and agents in Vercel, Replit, Eleven Agents, Wabi & more