David is Head of AI at assimil8, where he leads the team building enterprise AI systems that make it into production rather than stalling at proof of concept. His background is in data and engineering, not AI marketing, and it shows in how he works. David treats AI as an engineering problem: data foundations first, then models, then the testing, governance and access controls enterprise IT actually asks for.

He and his team build production LLM agents and automation on Azure and Python, alongside Microsoft Copilot security and rollout work for organisations putting AI in front of their whole workforce. He works directly with senior teams at mid-sized and enterprise businesses, including multi-country programmes, and runs free AI advisory sessions for leaders trying to separate the use cases with a genuine return from the ones that quietly burn a year.

David writes about applied AI for assimil8: what it really costs, what breaks once a model is live, and what it takes to get from a convincing demo to something a business runs on every day.