Building LLMs.txt for the social sector
Another blog on the ins and outs of something I built, what it's all about, and why it might be a useful tool and/or concept. A llms.txt tool designed for specific use cases.
Tom Watson
The Garden of Ideas
The Garden Ideas, a simple facilitation tool for individuals and groups. Seeds, soil, seasons, pruning and composting as a way of making intentional choices
Building Open Recommendations
A full breakdown of how I built Open Recommendations, the inner workings, the choices I made, including provider agnostic AI, strict data structures, deciding whats a recommendation and whats just an observation, RAG, and weighting community feedback.
Weeknote 34
The garden of ideas, self permission slips, llms.txt generator, open recommendations, Organisational Resilience, tech resilience, modes of thinking. It's been a busy but good week!
Weeknote 33
A fair bit of travelling, a fair bit of building. Creating a tiny boring tool, a nice end to a project, and sometimes just listening.
Is the best way to actually make AI work in an organisation to focus on constraints?
Pondering on how we actually need to focus on constraints when everything and anything is possible
Weeknote 32
First weeknote of the new year. A bit on my epic christmas trip to scandinavia, closing down Data for Action, open for new projects and collaborations, building an llms.txt generator and prototyping the context passport idea.
The end of Data For Action
Reflections on building a different kind of consultancy- one that chose uncertainty over certainty, conversations over transactions, and approach over outputs.
Weeknote 31
Final weeknote of the year...ok a week and a half note. Thinking about the future, taking care of the past, and an absolute bumper load of interesting things.
Signing off for the year.
My Memory - A startup idea for 2026
One of a number of ideas I'm thinking about ahead of 2026. The personal context passport lets people carry a portable, user-owned profile they can share on their terms - from low-stakes convenience (travel, fitness) and evolving into granular, time-limited permissions for high-stakes public services