Patent-intelligence venture
Praviar
In-production pharmaceutical patent-intelligence venture, going to market, with fixed checks, bounded legal reasoning support, and private implementation detail.
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AI Engineering — Complete Technical Profile
Peter McCann Strain builds the whole system: governed AI platforms, private assistant infrastructure, patent-intelligence products, real-time voice operations, evaluation harnesses, production workflows, and research methods.
Voice-operations venture
Conversico
In-production AI receptionist venture going to market, focused on missed-call recovery, booking support, privacy, and launch-gated operations.
Enterprise agentic AI at SThree
Aurum
Multi-agent orchestration, synthetic candidate systems, evaluator architecture, self-improvement research, reviewable state, fairness diagnostics, red-team layers, audit records, and production control.
8 agents · private daily use
Personal Assistant AI
An ongoing independent private assistant with durable memory, proactive background work, and quality monitoring.
0 mismatches · 50 runs
Datamise legal infrastructure
Co-founded Datamise; built claims infrastructure and a valuation engine that matched a separate calculator penny-for-penny.
P0–P12 patterns
Deep-research benchmark
Benchmark study of around 13 orchestration patterns with judge-reliability panels, citation audits, and equivalence testing.
180× cheaper
Skills Taxonomy pipeline
CV skill tagging rebuilt around retrieval, filters, calibration, and a 7 kB head — zero LLM calls in the production hot path.
Oxford · Astroscale · CivTech
Research-to-product range
An 89%-accurate medical-imaging classifier, satellite sim-to-real vision, and public-sector AI strategy across hard domains.
What the engineering actually looks like
The throughline is range under constraint: regulated hiring workflows, reviewable legal calculations, satellite computer vision, and Oxford medical-imaging research all demanded traceability rather than a demo.
- Founding AI Engineer at SThree: architected Aurum as enterprise agentic AI employer work, contributed to £25M of board investment, and grew the AI team from 2 to 10.
- Built Personal Assistant AI independently as a private assistant case study with durable memory, proactive support, and quality monitoring.
- Built Praviar and Conversico as current founder ventures: one around bounded pharmaceutical patent intelligence, the other around real-time AI voice operations with Greeta as the voice agent.
- Cut SThree CV skill-tagging cost 180× by moving validation from LLM calls to retrieval, deterministic filters, calibration, and a 7 kB head.
- Co-founded Datamise, where a two-person team built owned claims infrastructure for GMB equal-pay campaigns and the SettleMise valuation engine.
- Oxford DPhil: built a whole-slide placental histology pipeline with an 89%-accurate 8-class cell classifier.
Where Peter fits best
The ideal role is senior or staff-level AI engineering where architecture, evaluation, governance, and product delivery all matter.
- Agentic systems with human-in-the-loop approvals and observable state transitions.
- Applied ML systems where statistical claims need to survive scrutiny.
- Cross-functional environments with legal, compliance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders.
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