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AI strategy
Define where AI can create meaningful value, which opportunities deserve priority and resources, and how product, technology, governance and organisational priorities should fit together.
AdviserFounderTechnologist
AI strategy · Products · Infrastructure · MCP
Turn AI ambition into an operating strategy.
Tony helps boards and leadership teams turn AI from an abstract priority into an operating strategy, with particular expertise in AI products, agentic systems and MCP.
Oxford PPE
Stanford GSB
Y Combinator
Advisory
From strategic intent to practical execution.
Focused, independent advice for organisations deciding how AI should shape their products, infrastructure, operating model and priorities.
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MCP strategy and implementation
Determine where Model Context Protocol can create value across internal AI systems and external products, then shape the architecture, security model and implementation approach.
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AI product and architecture review
Review AI products and agentic systems across product logic, model and data choices, dependencies, integrations, security, scalability and commercial viability.
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AI capability assessment
Assess current technology, data, talent, governance and delivery capability, identifying the practical gaps between AI ambition and the organisation's ability to execute.
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Executive workshops
Focused sessions that give boards and leadership teams a shared understanding of the opportunity, clarify key decisions and establish an actionable set of priorities.
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Ongoing AI adviser
Independent counsel for CEOs, CTOs, product leaders and boards as AI strategy, products, infrastructure and operating priorities develop.
Operating judgement meets technical depth.
Tony has spent two decades building technology companies, investing, advising on complex decisions and working directly with leadership teams. That breadth allows him to connect board priorities with product strategy, architecture and execution.
1,570+
MCP servers catalogued and evaluated
10,700+
MCP tools mapped across the ecosystem
60%
Market share achieved by a company he cofounded
10,000
Monthly enterprise users at scale
Selected experience
Built in boardrooms, operating companies and product teams.
A career spanning company building, AI product architecture, MCP infrastructure, board advisory, investing and complex transactions.
2023 to present
Founder and CEOThinkChain
Conceived and built MCPBundles, cataloguing more than 1,570 MCP servers and 10,700 tools. Engineered the platform, hosted integrations, code execution, dynamic discovery and security architecture.
2024 to present
Venture PartnerMercuri
Through his role at Mercuri, Tony sources and screens early stage technology investments, leads specialist technical and architectural diligence, and advises portfolio leadership teams on AI, product and scaling.
2014 to 2022
Cofounder, Co CEO and DirectorConfident LIMS · YC S15
Built a regulated B2B software platform to 60% market share, 10,000 monthly enterprise users and a high eight figure valuation, raising more than $20 million.
2004 to 2013
M&A and Principal InvestmentMacquarie · Merrill Lynch · Lazard
Originated, structured and monitored more than $500 million in investments and advised on more than $5 billion of M&A and leveraged buyout transactions.
MercuriMacquarieY CombinatorStanford GSBOxfordFounders Fund
A useful outsider
Independent enough to challenge. Experienced enough to help.
The aim is not to produce another AI roadmap that sits in a deck. It is to give decision makers a rigorous view of what matters, how the pieces fit together and what the organisation should do next.
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Commercially grounded
Technology assessed in the context of markets, customers, economics and execution.
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Technically credible
Architecture examined directly, including agentic systems, MCP, dependencies, data, models, security and scale.
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Built to operate
Strategy translated into clear priorities, ownership, capabilities, sequencing and governance.
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Turn AI priority into practical direction.
For AI strategy, MCP, product architecture, executive workshops and ongoing leadership advice.
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