2024–Present
LEAP Legal Software
AI Practice Management Engineering Lead
Created a no-code AI agentic platform for legal firms, transforming how legal professionals manage matter profitability.
Building the
AI future.
I’m Dale, an entrepreneur and engineer turning ambitious ideas into useful products.
Co-founder of Avenue Bank and CreditorWatch. Now building AI solutions.
- Funding secured
- $77M+
- Years building
- 20+
- Products & projects
- 16+
- Articles & ideas
- 24
01 / Experience
A track record of building.
From credit risk and banking to the next generation of AI tools.
2018–2024
Avenue Bank
Co-founder, COO & CDO
Secured $77M+ in funding, obtained a full banking licence in 2024, and built 24-hour processing systems to improve the customer experience.
2010–2018
CreditorWatch
Co-founder, CTO & Innovation Director
Led technology and product from startup to successful exit, pioneering AI risk scores and better credit risk assessment.
02 / Approach
Ideas into working systems.
01
Rapid prototyping
Turn ideas into working prototypes. Test early, learn from real users, and iterate.
02
Intelligent automation
Apply AI to complex business processes, making more room for the work that matters.
03
Strategic innovation
Combine technical depth with commercial thinking to build useful, sustainable products.
03 / Open source
Better tools. Built in the open.
Practical AI tools for the PHP community.
Claude PHP SDK
A complete PHP client for Claude, with streaming, tool use, vision, and extended thinking.
Claude PHP Agent
Build autonomous AI agents with planning, tool orchestration, and multi-provider support.
Laragentic
Autonomous agents and AI-powered workflows for the Laravel ecosystem.
PHPBot
A CLI AI assistant with cost-aware routing and on-device Apple Intelligence support.
Cross-Vendor DMF
Orchestrate models from multiple AI providers in a single pipeline.
Claude PHP SDK Laravel
Facades, service providers, and configuration for Claude in Laravel.
CodeWithPHP.com
Learn modern PHP by building real applications. Completely free.
05 / Writing
Notes from the build.
Thoughts on AI, technology, and entrepreneurship.
Testing an AI Agent Harness Over a Few Weekends
A short write-up on using Cursor, Kimi K2.5, Laravel, React, and shadcn/ui to test whether a tightly planned agent loop can build a useful app cheaply.
A New Mental Model for Work in the AI Age
In the AI age, output volume is no longer a useful proxy for value. The new standard is signal quality: clarity, precision, and decisions that move work forward.
How I Use AI-Assisted Code Development
AI coding models and agents are powerful, but they still need tight supervision. Here is the process I use to keep quality high and avoid costly drift.
Let’s build something
worth building.
Have an ambitious idea or an interesting problem? I’m always open to a conversation.
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