Stephen Mc Gowan

Applied AI Consulting, AI-enabled software delivery and knowledge graphs

I help organisations adopt a fully AI-enabled SDLC and deploy frontier AI safely in regulated industries. My Applied AI Consulting work has recently meant leading a global insurer’s AI SDLC rollout, AI governance framework and agentic AI proofs of concept, alongside building with GenAI and knowledge graphs.

I also build on that process myself. TrolleyRelay is an AI-native SaaS company I’m running solo as an experiment in AI autonomy: product design, development and operations all on a fully AI-enabled process. As one human with AI agents, I’ve shipped over 500 production pull requests in four months.

Over 15+ years I’ve built foundational technical teams from scratch four times, in founder and leadership roles across start-ups, scale-ups and global enterprises: co-founder and CTO of Realta Logic, a regtech built on 20+ years of legal informatics research into digitising regulation; first CTO of My Emergency Doctor, an emergency telemedicine provider named the AFR’s 3rd most innovative health company in 2021; Head of Technology at Ashurst Digital Ventures; solutions and integration lead at Oneview Healthcare through its scale from 20 to 150+ staff and ASX listing; and co-founder of Cernam, an online-evidence company acquired by Daybreak Technologies. My career spans financial services, health and legal, across Australia, the USA and Ireland.

I also mentor founders and early-stage businesses with Inspiring Rare Birds and Uber Business Booster.

If you’d like to talk about Applied AI for your organisation, reach out on LinkedIn.

This site brings together my talks and my writing in one place. My article series You can’t install an AI-SDLC is now publishing.

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