G’day, I’m Paul 👋

I'm an Aussie founder and operator living in the San Francisco. I've spent a decade building, selling, and scaling AI and SaaS products.

What I Believe

Every person will have personal AI agents in their life. Not one super-agent that does everything, but specialist ones that show up at different stages, just like the real people who come and go through your life. The professor, the therapist, the mentor, the friend who got you through that year. They appear when you need them and they leave when the season changes.

It is implausible that we will not have AI agents that follow the same pattern. Not as replacements for people, but as kin. Present, knowing, helpful, and safe.

Projects

Mentela: Practice the hard conversations before they count

It's voice roleplay for the conversations managers lose sleep over. You do the layoff call against an AI, get graded, do it again until you're not terrible.

Opereta: AI that makes the calls you dread

Opereta is an AI call copilot that makes the phone calls you dread, customer service, cancellations, bill negotiations, insurance, while you supervise from a live "mission control" dashboard and can take over the call at any moment.

BattMap: Honest travel times and battery cost for every ride

BattMap gives e-scooter and e-bike riders honest travel times and battery cost for every route. Google Maps times trips at pedal-bike speed and knows nothing about your battery; BattMap re-times routes for how your actual vehicle behaves, including on hills, and tells you what each route will cost in charge.

AgentPapers: The vetted directory of infrastructure that makes AI agents real

AgentPapers is a curated registry of personhood infrastructure for AI agents: the companies giving agents identity credentials, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, money and wallets, legal entities, and insurance. It's the vetted directory of everything an agent needs to act as a recognizable participant in the world.

Kin Folk: An AI who knows you, for the seasons you face alone

Kin Folk is building AI companions, "AI kin," and its first product is Mira: a voice-first personal AI for adults who are quietly struggling and have no one to talk to. Warm, non-clinical conversations by voice or text, with a memory that carries across sessions so Mira actually knows you over time.

Kind Voice Notes: Anonymous voice kindness between strangers

No profiles, no likes, no followers. Just the sound of someone who cares, reaching someone who needs it. Kind Voice Notes is where the insight behind Kin Folk was born. Building a platform around voice, emotional safety, and human connection revealed something bigger: people do not just want to hear kindness from strangers. They want an ongoing presence.

Chorus: Collect voice messages from everyone who loves them

Share one link. Friends and family record a voice message. Deliver them all together. Birthdays, graduations, new babies, tough times, or just because. Chorus turns a moment into something people keep forever. It is the difference between a birthday text and a room full of people who showed up to say something real.

Orion: My personal AI agent system

Built on OpenClaw. I do not just talk about the agentic future. I live in it every day. Orion manages my research, my workflows, and my daily operations. It is how I stay convinced that personal agents are inevitable.

Where I've Been

I have spent a decade showing up at the frontier of AI and growth, building and scaling products from zero.