Will Palmer

I think about what happens when AI agents do real work — and what that means for how we build, how we govern, and how organisations and society adapt. The technology is moving fast. The harder questions are human ones: trust, oversight, who gets to build, and what we do when the ability to create is no longer scarce.

Writing

Unlocking Capability
When AI capability is democratised, the bottleneck moves to governance. On planning permission, building regulations, and why human capital concentrates where it matters most.

What I'm Exploring

I run a multi-agent system where AI agents coordinate on shared goals — building software, managing data, handling customer interactions. The agents work directly with capability layers. The interfaces evolve around what they do. I'm living in the thing I write about.

What holds my attention is where the technology meets everything else. The future of work when agents can build what used to need teams. The governance structures that make it safe to let more people create. The societal questions about what capability means when it's abundant rather than scarce.

Background

Product manager by trade. PhD in Politics from the University of Manchester — the thread across everything is how systems work, whether technical, organisational, or political.