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                        <h1>Paul Stanton</h1>
                        <p class="intro">I operate at the intersection of AI, platform experience, and organisational leverage. I focus on building confidence, explainability, and sustainable scale without increasing risk or headcount.</p>
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                    <h2>About</h2>
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                            <h3>What I Solve</h3>
                            <p>I identify where confidence, explainability, or scale are limiting growth, then design platform-level capabilities that reduce delivery risk while accelerating customer and commercial outcomes.</p>
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                            <h3>How I Work</h3>
                            <p>I work in a founder-mode pattern: conceiving and prototyping end to end, then deliberately transitioning ownership to specialist teams once value is proven and repeatable.</p>
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                            <h3>Design Grounding</h3>
                            <p>My background in user experience and accessibility, shaped in complex public-sector delivery, keeps AI products understandable, inclusive, and safe to operate at scale.</p>
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                        <p class="quote-text" id="homepage-quote-text">“For everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom”</p>
                        <footer class="quote-attribution" id="homepage-quote-attribution">Albert Einstein</footer>
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                            <h3>Agent-Ex: Search</h3>
                            <p>Conceived and prototyped rapidly, then transitioned into a core Jadu product through structured evaluation and cross-functional knowledge transfer. Now live with public-sector organisations and expanding through partner channels.</p>
                            <p><a href="https://www.jadu.net/agent-ex" aria-label="Open project link for Agent-Ex: Search"><i class="fa fa-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> jadu.net/agent-ex</a></p>
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                            <h3>Pragmatic Evaluation Framework</h3>
                            <p>Designed a Red / Amber / Green confidence model that turns AI evaluation into a clearer, repeatable go-live process, reducing manual overhead and improving explainability for risk-averse stakeholders.</p>
                            <p><a href="https://aipsweek.digileaders.com/talks/from-black-box-to-green-light-shipping-ai-with-confidence/" aria-label="Watch the talk for Pragmatic Evaluation Framework"><i class="fa fa-youtube-play" aria-hidden="true"></i> Watch the talk</a></p>
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                            <h3>Jadu Assist (Formerly Jadu Labs)</h3>
                            <p>Built as a safe incubation channel to prototype and validate AI features without disrupting core teams, then transitioned into a named, supported product owned by specialist teams.</p>
                            <p><a href="https://jadu.net/assist" aria-label="Open project link for Jadu Assist"><i class="fa fa-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> jadu.net/assist</a></p>
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                            <h3>Visual Workflow</h3>
                            <p>Designed to reduce cognitive load when managing complex workflows, helping teams design and deliver critical front-line public-sector services faster and with more confidence.</p>
                            <p><a href="https://jadu.net/assist" aria-label="Open project link for Visual Workflow"><i class="fa fa-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> jadu.net/assist</a></p>
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                            <h3>Content Assist</h3>
                            <p>AI-assisted content tooling focused on clarity, consistency, and speed of delivery for service teams producing high-volume public-facing content.</p>
                            <p><a href="https://jadu.net/assist" aria-label="Open project link for Content Assist"><i class="fa fa-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> jadu.net/assist</a></p>
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                            <h3>Pulsar</h3>
                            <p>Design system foundations that improve consistency and accessibility across product teams, reducing duplication while supporting predictable delivery at scale.</p>
                            <p><a href="https://jadu.github.io/pulsar/" aria-label="Open project link for Pulsar"><i class="fa fa-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> jadu.github.io/pulsar/</a></p>
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                    <p class="section-note">Recent writing alongside the recovered Coffeepowered archive, spanning 2008 to 2013.</p>
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                            <h3>Which accessibility testing tool should you use?</h3>
                            <p class="archive-meta">2018 - May 17</p>
                            <p>A practical breakdown of tool tradeoffs and workflow for production teams.</p>
                            <p><a href="https://medium.com/pulsar/which-accessibility-testing-tool-should-you-use-e5990e6ef0a" aria-label="Open writing link for Which accessibility testing tool should you use?"><i class="fa fa-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> medium.com/pulsar/which-accessibility-testing-tool-should-you-use-e5990e6ef0a</a></p>
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                            <h3>Retiring pieces of a design system</h3>
                            <p class="archive-meta">2016 - Oct 13</p>
                            <p>How to safely deprecate components without breaking product delivery.</p>
                            <p><a href="https://medium.com/pulsar/retiring-pieces-of-a-design-system-d5ebb080d755" aria-label="Open writing link for Retiring pieces of a design system"><i class="fa fa-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> medium.com/pulsar/retiring-pieces-of-a-design-system-d5ebb080d755</a></p>
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                            <h3>Pulsar - The design system for Jadu</h3>
                            <p class="archive-meta">2016 - Oct 12</p>
                            <p>The system thinking behind product consistency at platform scale.</p>
                            <p><a href="https://medium.com/pulsar/pulsar-the-design-system-for-jadu-6ce0031fa28a" aria-label="Open writing link for Pulsar - The design system for Jadu"><i class="fa fa-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> medium.com/pulsar/pulsar-the-design-system-for-jadu-6ce0031fa28a</a></p>
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                    <h3 class="writing-subhead">Coffeepowered Archive</h3>
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                        <p class="feed-meta">Apr 21, 2026 <span class="meta-dot">•</span> Vilnius, Lithuania</p>
                        <h3>Generative and Agentic AI transforming public services</h3>
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                        <p class="feed-meta">Mar 18, 2026 <span class="meta-dot">•</span> Online <span class="meta-dot">•</span> Public Sector AI Week</p>
                        <h3>From Black Box to Green Light: Shipping AI with Confidence</h3>
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                        <p class="feed-meta">Jul 30, 2025 <span class="meta-dot">•</span> Webinar</p>
                        <h3>The Age of the Agents - your AI powered answer engine</h3>
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                        <p class="feed-meta">Jul 16, 2025 <span class="meta-dot">•</span> London, England</p>
                        <h3>The Age of Agents: Keynote</h3>
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                        <p class="feed-meta">Nov 11, 2024 <span class="meta-dot">•</span> Birmingham, England</p>
                        <h3>Introducing Jadu Labs</h3>
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                        <p class="feed-meta">Jan 12, 2018 <span class="meta-dot">•</span> Musselburgh, Scotland</p>
                        <h3>Jadu Companion App &amp; Machine Learning</h3>
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                        <p class="feed-meta">Apr 29, 2015</p>
                        <h3>Jadu Pulsar - the UX Framework of Jadu</h3>
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