By day I lecture in supply chain and project management in Cambridge and Essex. The rest of the time I build and deploy the tools I wish existed: a digital twin for a brewery, a coach for dissertations, a mediator that keeps your private life private, and a course on who to believe.
I've driven electric since 2014 and write about it a lot; my analysis has been cited by the House of Lords and published by the World Economic Forum. The rest ends up on the blog, alongside the odd resurrected PS3.
Digital twins of working breweries that show brewers where the energy goes, and how to cut it.
BrewAI turns a working brewery into a live digital twin. Circuit-level sensor and energy data, captured continuously for nearly three years, feeds AI models that let brewers simulate changes, cut energy and carbon, and produce verifiable emissions data they can actually stand behind.
Most sustainability AI runs on estimates and annual averages. BrewAI has almost three years of continuous, circuit-level energy data from a live brewery, down to individual pieces of equipment. There's no shortcut to data like that, you have to collect it day by day.
Co-founder and Technical Lead. Designed the architecture, data pipeline, models and product from first prototype onward.
Project management built for the one big project most undergraduates have never done before.
Ship My Dissertation gives students a plan, milestones and AI-guided support for the undergraduate dissertation, a process that usually runs on panic and a January all-nighter. It treats the dissertation as what it is: a real project most students have never been taught to run. It's a working MVP, and I'm now talking to universities about pilots.
Fifteen years of teaching project management went into this, and I wrote the code as well. I didn't have to describe the tool to a developer and hope, I could just build it.
Founder and Builder.
A privacy-first AI relationship mediator. The intimate conversations stay on a self-hosted model.
Each partner talks privately to a neutral AI mediator, which works out what matters to the other person and returns separate guidance to each side. Neither party ever sees the other's raw words, a caucus model borrowed from professional mediation. The mediator core runs on a self-hosted, open-weight LLM so intimate conversations never leave home turf, with frontier models reserved only for specific safety-critical roles.
Anything intimate stays on a local, open-weight model. Frontier models come in role by role, only where safety genuinely needs them. And the caucus design means there's just no route for one partner's words to reach the other.
Founder and Architect.
An interdisciplinary module on working out who to trust, now that deepfakes, scam reviews and AI slop are everywhere.
An eleven-week online module about deciding what to believe, when a deepfake, a five-star scam review and a friend's hot take can all land in your feed inside five minutes. Fully online, fully interdisciplinary, open to any student on any course, with no exam: students build a real analysis of a manipulation case and reflect on it. Now in its second year at ARU, and being packaged as standalone e-learning.
Because it's fully online and open to any course, any student at an institution can take it, and there's no exam to timetable: assessment is a real manipulation-case analysis instead. It's been through one full cohort at ARU already, with the student feedback to show for it.
Designer and Lecturer.
“I went in half-assed, convinced I knew how to sniff out the lie already. I was wrong.”
Alongside the products above, I research and write about supply chains, automotive manufacturing, sustainable transport, innovation, and how people decide what to trust. That work has turned up in academic journals, international publications and UK parliamentary research.
My analysis of the UK's electric vehicle manufacturing capability was cited and quoted in the House of Lords Library briefing Charging ahead? Future of the UK car industry, in its discussion of international competition and the switch to electric vehicles.
Two articles I wrote or co-wrote for The Conversation were later published by the World Economic Forum, covering electric vehicle supply shortages, net zero targets, and how electric cars could support the grid through vehicle-to-grid charging.
I co-authored a study of electric vehicle adoption across six commercial fleet operators in the East of England. Published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, it combines cost modelling, interviews and stakeholder evidence to look at the financial, organisational and practical hurdles of electrifying a fleet.
Nyame-Asiamah, F., Shaw, B. and Stacey, T. (2025). Cohered model of adopting electric vehicle fleets in the East of England. Transportation Research Part D, 146, 104897.
I teach supply chain, operations and project management at Anglia Ruskin University, plus an interdisciplinary module on how people decide what, and whom, to trust. Most of it draws directly on the industry and technology work elsewhere on this page.
Fifteen years of teaching the things I still do for a living: automotive supply chains, lean manufacturing, quality management and running real projects. I teach Sustainable Supply Chains at postgraduate level and supervise postgraduate projects and dissertations. My ARU profile lists research and supervision expertise in supply chain management, automotive design and manufacturing, quality management, project management and information technology.
I also teach Who Can You Trust?, an interdisciplinary module on how trust is built, lost and rebuilt: misinformation, technology, privacy and surveillance, and how people decide which sources, institutions and other people deserve it. It is open to any student on any course, which is why it also appears as the fourth project above.
Read about the moduleMy industry-facing work has included lead engineer training, project management development and Knowledge Transfer Partnership supervision with the automotive engineering consultancy Bertrandt UK.
Invited to judge as well as teach: assessing student and graduate business ideas at ARU's AdVantage Pitch, and sitting on the Pitch Day jury for the UCBM Academy International Bootcamp in Cambridge, evaluating team projects from its intensive programme in technology, innovation and project-based learning.
“I emailed him the other night with questions about the assignment and he responded within hours, which is really a massive thing at this university. It is often difficult to contact staff for help. This is a massive deal for me personally.”
“Tom is very engaging and clearly passionate about what he teaches.”
“Tom has been a great module leader, he makes the classes extremely engaging and actually enjoyable to join.”
A selection of the things I do and who I've worked with…
All of it is technology that has to work in the real world: a brewery's carbon data, a student's first big project, the future of electric transport. MSc in Computer Science, Fellow of the HEA, Member of the BCS.
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