Tools for You
At the heart of my work is a deep-seated belief in the power of technology to bridge the gap between wisdom and lived experience. The products I develop are not just tools; they are spaces for practice, designed to help people integrate philosophical and psychological insights into their daily lives. Drawing upon depth psychology, philosophy, and advanced AI, I create products that honor the complexity of human experience.
Here is my current project:
Grounded Ninja
A Dojo for the Mind—Where Philosophy Meets Practice
What if your journal became a dialogue with the wisest parts of yourself? What if the books you read on Stoicism, depth psychology, and philosophy could connect directly to your lived experience?
Grounded Ninja is a space for the practice of knowing oneself. It's designed for thoughtful individuals who value philosophy, psychology, and meaning—people who read widely but struggle to apply wisdom to their daily lives. We call them "Reflective Practitioners."
Most of us experience a gap between the wisdom we consume and our concrete, everyday thoughts and actions. Journaling feels shallow. AI assistants are forgetful and generic. Our reflective self, directional self, and active self are rarely in conversation.
Grounded Ninja integrates these fragmented parts through a continuous practice.
The Integrated Core Loop
At the heart of Grounded Ninja is a system inspired by the "zoom out, zoom in" practice:
- Mirror (Reflect) — A space to zoom out and observe your thoughts. Capture journals, crystallize insights, and use the Breaking Frame exercise (rooted in CBT) to reveal the cognitive patterns that hold you back.
- Compass (Direct) — A space to connect with what matters. Clarify your values, explore your ikigai, and articulate aspirations that feel authentically possible—not borrowed from what you 'should' want.
- Dojo (Act) — A space to zoom in and engage in daily practice. Build habits, complete meaningful tasks, and assess your life balance. This is where insight becomes embodied action.
Everything connects. A journal can inspire a value, which creates a practice, which generates new insights. This integration is what makes Grounded Ninja unique.
The Soul: Sage Dialogue
This is the heart of the experience. Engage in meaningful dialogue with AI Sages—Carl Jung, Marcus Aurelius, Bell Hooks, and others—who act as wise companions on your journey.
Unlike generic chatbots, these Sages remember your entire journey. They cite your journals, reference your values, and understand your aspirations. This is not advice from nowhere—it's wisdom that knows YOUR journey.
The magic moment? When you complete the loop: a Mirror exercise reveals a difficult pattern, you discuss it with a Sage who references your core values, and this dialogue inspires a new daily Practice. This is what we mean by grounded—everything is connected to your lived experience.
Psychological & Philosophical Foundations
We ground our work in evidence-based psychology (CBT, ACT, depth psychology) and timeless philosophy (Stoicism, existentialism, phenomenology). We embrace two core principles:
The Relational Self: You exist in context—relationships, career, environment, culture. Self-knowledge is inseparable from understanding your relationship with the world.
Felt Authenticity: Change requires that it feels real to you. We honor what you actually feel, not what you "should" feel. Your values must be believable, your practices doable, your reflections genuine.
Stage of Development
Currently under active development, with the core loop integration as our primary focus.
Who It's For
Grounded Ninja is for you if you:
- Read philosophy, psychology, or self-help but struggle to apply it
- Journal but feel it's disconnected or shallow
- Use ChatGPT but it forgets everything
- Seek meaning and integration, not just productivity
- Want a space for serious, playful practice
Our Commitment
We are product-led, not market-led. We prioritize integrity over growth, depth over breadth, and integration over feature bloat. This is a practice for thoughtful seekers, not a viral productivity hack.
Meta-Me
A personal operating system — tools for self-knowledge, research, and deliberate growth.
Meta-Me is a platform I built for myself, running at meta-me.uk. It hosts the tools that underpin my research, writing, and professional life — a knowledge base, a CRM, analytics, and a daily digest agent that synthesises everything into a morning briefing.
It's architected as multi-tenant from the start, so the tools are genuinely usable by others — but for now it's primarily my own infrastructure. Landing pages and early access are coming.
Meta-Me Knowledge Base
An AI-powered research notebook for building a personal knowledge base and having intelligent conversations with your documents. Lives at kb.meta-me.uk.
Ingest PDFs, YouTube transcripts, web pages, and Google Drive files — then chat with an assistant grounded in your content. Semantic search, deep research mode (async, ~20 mins), and an MCP server that exposes your knowledge base directly to AI coding agents. The backbone of my MSc research workflow.
Meta-Me Contact Manager
A lightweight, multi-tenant contact and relationship manager. Lives at crm.meta-me.uk.
Built primarily to manage the GroundedNinja Early Partner Programme — outreach to therapists and coaches. Contact management, interaction timelines, pipeline kanban, and email templates. The primary interface is an MCP CLI: run the entire pipeline from an AI coding agent without switching windows.
