What I'm focused on now

Themes

Agent-era infrastructure: Every layer of the internet was built for human users. Payments, identity, discovery, compute—they all assume a person at the keyboard. When software agents act on their own, those layers break. I’m mapping the five that have to be rebuilt: rails, protocols, discovery, identity, and payments. The agent-era infrastructure map tracks what’s emerging.

Agent payments: How do agents pay for things when the transaction costs more than the service? The current payment stack can’t handle sub-cent transactions across dozens of services per session. I wrote about the split between Visa/Mastercard and permissionless protocols like Lightning and Cashu in agent payments have a three-body problem.

Writing & building

Publishing essays and notes on go-to-market strategy for frontier tech. Sideband is where I write about agent-era infrastructure: what breaks when the user isn’t human, and what gets built instead.

New projects:

• StackCut—Paste a QuickBooks export, get a CEO-ready AI savings report in minutes. It recognizes 120+ SaaS vendors and models cost savings across replacement scenarios. Invite-only right now (code: launch2026).

• Sideband Lab—Interactive visualizations and data behind the Sideband newsletter. Includes the agent-era infrastructure map and the agent payments three-body visualization.

Trust Revolution podcast

Season 3 is live. Seven episodes on digital autonomy, surveillance, data sovereignty, and Bitcoin’s unfinished fight. Guests include John Robb, Aaron van Wirdum, and Jesse Posner.

Advisory

Working with founders in AI and frontier tech. Fractional roles, project-based consulting, and advisory. Right now that includes AI infrastructure, energy, consumer products, and a web-of-trust startup building open-source trust engines for decentralized networks.