AdamMaguireWilson
No loyalty to any lab or vendor — I'd rather roam the whole field and find the one tool that actually fits the problem in front of you.
I fell in love with Hangzhou years before it became the centre of China's AI ecosystem — now I call it home. Western teams come to understand what China is really building; Chinese teams come to understand how the rest of the world thinks.
- 10 years
- Architecting & leading high-scale systems & the teams behind them
- 100+ projects
- Delivered across manufacturing, retail, finance, hospitality & more
- Hangzhou
- Over three years on the ground in China's AI capital
Where I'm useful
Chinese AI & robotics, decoded
What's actually happening across DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, MiniMax, GLM — and, lately, the robots down the road at Unitree and Deep Robotics. I read the launches, the papers and the local chatter so you don't have to, then tell you straight what it means for the thing you're building.
Where AI earns its keep
Working out where AI genuinely earns a place in how you operate — and saying so plainly when it doesn't. I've watched too many demos die on the way to production to sell you one; the work I like is the unglamorous kind that holds up.
Cross-border, both ways
Helping Western teams work with Chinese technology, and Chinese teams find their feet in the wider world. I've lived on both sides of that gap, and it's narrower than it looks when someone who's crossed it walks you over.
The decade before AI
Ten years architecting high-scale systems and leading the teams behind them — manufacturing, retail, finance, hospitality, and a stretch advising UK Government ministers on smart cities. So when I have an opinion about what will ship, it's a builder's opinion, not a bystander's.
Recent notes
Essays and field notes on AI, technology, and building.
Setting Up a Scheduled Task in Hermes
Learn how to create a scheduled task in Hermes so your AI agent runs automatically on a timer — no manual triggering required.
aiSetting Up Obsidian with Hermes One
Learn how to install Obsidian, create a vault, and let Hermes One automatically build a full PKM structure — then put it to work finding research for your MBA thesis.
technologySetting Up Hermes: A Step-by-Step Guide
A beginner-friendly walkthrough for installing the Hermes local AI agent, patching the common incomplete install, and wiring up a provider (Kimi and MiniMax) — with every screen shown in order.
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When I'm not at the desk
Most of my life happens in front of a screen. The rest of it happens behind a camera or under the sea, and both feed back into the work more than they probably should.
Got something you're trying to work out?
An AI build, a second opinion on a direction, or just a straight answer about what's really going on in China — write and I'll reply. I read everything that comes in myself.
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