I'm Oscar. I head up product design at Prime Intellect, where we're building the open intelligence stack for continual learning. Previously I was the founding engineer and product lead at Workshop Labs, a neolab building user-aligned models to democratise intelligence, acquired in April 2026 by Thinking Machines Lab. I am working to dramatically extend human agency through the use of technology.

I'm based in San Francisco, originally from Bath, England. Get in touch with me.

[writing]

Some of my pieces on augmenting what it means to be human.

• Nov '25, A Market of Whispering Earrings
• Jun '25, Build Your Exoskeleton
• Feb '25, A Society of Rick Rubins
• Oct '24, Understanding Emergence

I am currently building a list of interesting phenomena: Tractable Emergence.

[thoughts on civilisation]

We should attempt to steer humanity towards generative futures.

• Good tools bridge paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.
• The best tools disappear into use. The goal is AI that becomes part of thought, not adjacent to it.
• Well-intentioned products minimise the gap between a user's model and their environment.
• Life on Earth is an outlier, land is cheap, we are still early, and all problems are soluble.

[art i love]

This website is open source.