I turn messy businesses into clear models that AI products can be built on.
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Get inside the chaos.
I learn a business from the inside, fast and deep, until I understand it like the people who run it.Find the centre of gravity.
Then I form a view of what everything really revolves around, and put it out there to be tested.Decide how to measure it.
Agree what good looks like before building anything, so the results speak for themselves.Bring each part into orbit.
One small experiment at a time. Keep what holds, drop what doesn’t.Then simplify.
Strip out whatever doesn’t earn its place. What’s left becomes the standard everyone builds on.Tom J Allen
Order from chaos, done beautifully.
I turn messy businesses into clear models that AI products can be built on.
Ontology & Standards Manager at Decidr. Before that I co-led discovery and build of the four products its platform was founded on.
Sydney, Australia
I’m happiest in the messy middle, where how a business really works meets the systems meant to run it. Finding the model underneath is the hard yards, and I do my best work when the problem is hard and the clock is running. Same as a long race: it gets interesting when it gets difficult.
Ontology & Standards Manager
I look after the platform model: how the ontology works inside an AI platform, and the standards that keep what’s built on it consistent.
Before that, as Product Manager, I co-led discovery and build of Decidr’s early products with global development teams, laying the foundations the platform has grown from.
Head of Digital
Digital strategy and product ownership across a complex, multi-venue business: ticketing, a members' club app and a spread of satellite services.
Product Manager
Built a cyber security and data protection governance platform.
Co-founder
Co-founded a subscription-management startup and led the build of its first version.
Learn and test surf lifesaving patrol skills: hand signals (practised on camera), first-aid acronyms and radio calls.
A year-in-review for your group chat: stats, awards and the moments worth remembering.
Proxmox, Docker and local AI models running on my own hardware.
Small Unity projects, and hunting for hidden gems in the lowest-rated corners of Steam.
Rowing, triathlons and adventure racing. The bigger the challenge, the better.
Email is the best way to reach me: hello@tomjallen.me