// three eras, one operator
Bio
I’m a New Yorker who moved to the UAE and brought two decades of operating instinct with me. I didn’t start in AI. 20 years ago I was shipping content management, content distribution, and web-based multimedia systems. ~10 years ago I was bringing tech and IT into hospitality: gamification, CRM, and shift-management systems. Today I apply the same method to AI. It’s the third technology era I’ve worked through, not the first thing I’ve ever built.
20 years ago: Content systems
Shipping content management, content distribution, and web-based multimedia systems.
~10 years ago: Hospitality tech
Bringing tech and IT into hospitality: gamification, CRM, and shift-management systems.
Today: AI
The same method applied to AI.
What I run today
- RandomSynergy: this studio. AI products, client builds and consulting, open tools, and the writing at Signals. The shipped work lives in The Foundry, the studio’s body of work.
- Project Hospitality Solutions: a food, beverage, and events consulting practice in the UAE, and the venture behind Gahwa.ai and GrapeToGlass.ai. Visit →
- Food Truck Lab: a UAE mobile food-service and food-truck consultancy, from launch and licensing to operations. Visit →
Receipts
- 165+ repos on GitHub: the method in public, at RandomSynergy17, built on shared, reusable foundations.
- Live products: public tools like RNSNB (AI images on demand) and ios-sim-driver (hands-on iOS testing); commercial products like Gahwa.ai.
- Advisory: teams like Levels AV on AI integration and innovation.
- Funding and go-to-market: research and go-to-market for Abu Dhabi, UAE, and international programmes, serving Fortune 500 clients and small teams alike.
What I’m building right now, updated as it changes, lives at Now.
Elsewhere
Randolph.ae: my personal site · LinkedIn · GitHub: RandomSynergy17