Work with Paul
Work with Paul
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Paul Kerr — CTO · AI Product Architect · Builder

Architecting the AI Era

Paul Kerr · CTO · AI Product Architect · Builder

Architecting the AI Era

Exploring how AI is reshaping software, products and the way we build them. Everything here comes from real products, real experiments and real engineering lessons.

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Brilliancy chess coaching interface02 · Brilliancy
AI-assisted game world concept art03 · Game world
Enterprise platforms · AI products · Voice systems · Creative technology
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30+
Years in technology
CTO and product architect
Role
Enterprise platforms
Shipped at scale
AI · Web · Mobile · Voice · VR
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Current work

What I’m exploring now

These projects are where I’m learning how AI changes architecture, product shape and the day-to-day craft of building. Evidence from the work, not a pitch for it.

(01) · In development

Kerrzo

An AI-native operating system, under exploration

An exploration into what an AI-native operating system for small businesses could become — and what architecture looks like when agents sit at the centre of the system.

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Brilliancy chess board and coaching UI
(02) · Experimental product

Brilliancy

Can AI be a genuinely useful chess coach?

An exploration into whether AI can become a genuinely useful personal chess coach — and a platform for experimenting with local AI, cloud inference and AI product architecture.

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AI-assisted game world character and environment art
(03) · Ongoing experiment

AI-assisted Game World

How AI changes creative game workflows

An experiment exploring how AI changes creative workflows for modern game development — from concept through production, and what holds together when a solo pipeline scales.

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Engineering Stories

Finding real consensus without flattening human perspective.

Strategy Connect

Real engineering challenges around guided AI conversation, preserved verbatim answers and vector analysis — architecture, trade-offs and lessons from revealing consensus without averaging minority viewpoints away.

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01Guided conversationAn AI interviewer draws out nuance instead of forcing a scale.
02Verbatim responsesEvery original answer is preserved, never summarised away.
03Embeddings and vectorsLanguage becomes geometry — meaning placed in shared space.
04Clustering and densityDense regions show where a group genuinely agrees.
05Consensus and divergenceMinority viewpoints stay visible rather than being averaged out.
06Traceable original answersEvery insight can be walked back to the human who said it.
3D scatter plot of survey responses clustered by semantic similarity, colour-coded by group
Architecture in production

Trade-offs and lessons from platforms connected to real operations.

All selected work
Red Rooster ordering app showing checkout, loyalty points and combo options
Craveable Brands

Building restaurants of the future

Built and evolved ordering platforms across multiple restaurant brands, integrating mobile, web, payments, loyalty, delivery and point-of-sale systems at national scale.

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Amica Perks app showing competitions, rewards and vouchers across three phone screens
International Towers / Amica

Connecting people to the workplace

A workplace experience platform bringing together building access, events, bookings, community and tenant services into one mobile experience.

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Emerging technology

Exploring what product architecture looks like beyond the conventional screen.

Smartphone loaded into a VR headset, showing a live theatre stream
BoxOfficeVR
The magic of theatre at home
A man wearing a neurotechnology VR headset with integrated sensors
Neurotechnology
Exploring a more immersive way to manage pain
Founder Advisory

How I work with founders.

01

AI Product Advisory

Working through where AI changes the product architecture — and where it does not.

02

Prototype Sprints

Learning by shipping a working, testable slice in weeks, not a deck about one.

03

Building with AI

Helping teams learn AI-capable ways of building through the work itself.

04

Fractional CTO / Product Architecture

Senior technical judgement when a permanent hire is not the right move yet.

AI Lab

Experiments from tools under real constraints.

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Realtime AI drive-through ordering
Realtime AI drive-through ordering01
Experiment
Consistent characters across hundreds of generations02
Experiment
Modular 2D characters03
Experiment
AI-assisted 2D/3D asset pipeline04
Experiment
LTX video experiments05
Experiment
Local AI engineering06
Build notes

What I’m learning while building.

All learnings

Why the hardest part of AI products is still product judgement

Everyone can reach the same models. The advantage is knowing which problem deserves one, and what "good enough to ship" actually means.Jul 2026

Building Kerrzo in public: agents that actually do the work

Notes from six weeks of shipping.Jun 2026

A one-person pipeline for characters, assets and playable worlds

Where generative tools hold up, and where they don't.May 2026
Portrait of Paul Kerr

Experience still matters.

More than 30 years designing, building and leading digital products across commerce, property, strategy, healthcare, immersive technology and AI — now documenting what that experience reveals as the tools change.

The tools have changed dramatically. Product judgement, technical clarity and the ability to turn complexity into something useful have not.

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