I'm Dave Holmes-Kinsella. I build AI-expert data teams.
For 25+ years I've turned messy data into decisions and products across healthcare, fintech, and telecom. Now I help data teams, and the organisations that want to get there, become AI-native: evaluation loops, standards, and habits that make AI dependable when the tools change faster than the org chart.
- study Seven Grids 2026-08-26
- essay Just say no to STE-100 2026-08-25
- study Five Years of Open Water 2026-08-25
- study Two Swims, One Route 2026-08-25
- study An Opinionated Guide to Writing Techniques 2026-08-25
- essay Everyone wants to write with impact. Almost nobody knows the methods. 2026-08-22
- tool Praxis 2026-08-22
- essay More on Mechanical Writing 2026-08-21
- study Claude's Built-In Styles 2026-08-21
- essay In Defense of Mechanical Writing 2026-08-20
Just say no to STE-100
Or: the right tool for aircraft maintenance is the wrong tool for your Tuesday.
Everyone wants to write with impact. Almost nobody knows the methods.
The techniques are a century old. Choosing between them is the part nobody does, so I built something that does. Testers wanted.
More on Mechanical Writing
Exploring Claude's Output Styles as communication mechanisms.
In Defense of Mechanical Writing
Writing has a job to do. Perhaps we should specify the job.
Seven Grids
San Francisco's street bearings fall into seven sharp peaks — seven surveys that met at awkward angles — and a third of the city that fits none of them.
Five Years of Open Water
244 swims read back out of an Apple Health export that no application had ever been permitted to open. The stroke rate never moved; almost everything else did.
Two Swims, One Route
The same two-kilometre crossing, two weeks apart, at the same stroke rate — and eleven minutes apart. Separating the current from the swimmer using a control that was inside the swim all along.