Daniel Whitston

Currently

I'm employee #1 and CTO at AutogenAI, where I've built the product and the engineering organisation since the first commit in July 2022 — through seed, Series A and Series B, to a team of forty across the UK, US and Australia. We were live with our first customer that autumn, on GPT-3 completions, six weeks before ChatGPT launched. The architecture has held through four generations of model capability since, without a rewrite.

AutogenAI writes bids and proposals. That puts our customers in defence, infrastructure, outsourcing, consulting and frontline public services — organisations that win their work by bidding for it, and that are answerable for how they did it. A good share of the last two years has gone on what that demands of a supplier: FedRAMP High authorisation, and the rest of the assurance work that lets a regulated buyer say yes.

Before AutogenAI I was CTO at Policy in Practice, a govtech company selling welfare and benefits software to local and central government. And earlier, before software, I spent five years designing and running government-funded employment programmes and writing the bids that won them. I have been on the buying end of the procurement I now build software for.