Independent expert opinion for your R&D program.
An independent technical expert opinion on the three things an R&D claim asserts about the technology: that the problem was novel, that the outcome could not be known in advance, and that new knowledge was created.
Turn AI into real change for your business.
I help leadership teams decide where Transformational AI should reshape the business, then steer it safely and securely. I take on a small number of engagements at a time.
One standard behind both: technical judgment that stands up to scrutiny, across the five domains where software R&D breaks new ground.
Jeff Herbert · Based in Australia, working with clients worldwide- AI & machine learning systemsWhere the unknown sits: model behaviour on real data, reliability of agentic systems, evaluation, inference cost at scale
- Distributed & real-time platformsWhere the unknown sits: latency and error rates under load, concurrency, consistency, streaming and sync
- Cybersecurity & adversarial systemsWhere the unknown sits: detection under adversarial conditions, privacy-preserving computation, uncertain threat models
- Blockchain & cryptographic protocolsWhere the unknown sits: consensus, zero-knowledge and cryptoeconomic mechanisms; my Master's research field
- Platform architecture under hard constraintsWhere the unknown sits: whether a design can meet its targets at all, not whether it can be built
A rare combination in one senior leader
Business. Strategy, commercial and financial modelling, go-to-market, operations and process, and a formal R&D program led from the inside.
Communication. Board papers, regulator responses, stakeholder alignment, and leading cross-functional teams through change.
Technical depth. More than 40 years across every cycle of computing: platform architecture, cloud, AI, product design, and cybersecurity from engineer to executive.