Forward deployed engineer · Founder · MComp Computer Science, University of Bath

I ship LLM systems to real clients, and build companies around them.

Forward deployed engineer at Vantaphai, where I've built and deployed a generative AI legal platform being piloted by UK and US banks, VCs and law firms. Founder of Supercharged, an agentic people-search tool for student career outreach, whose first version I shipped to the App Store. Host of Get There One Day, a podcast that passed 16,000 followers in four months.

George Hastings holding the Cooke's Prize salver at Bromsgrove School
Cooke's Prize, Bromsgrove School, 2024

Work

Forward Deployed Engineer · May 2026 – present

In stealth · London

Vantaphai

Your digital knowledge lawyer.

Law firms track regulatory change by hand across dozens of fragmented sources, and things get missed. Vantaphai continuously scans legislation, court decisions and regulator publications, then turns them into risk-weighted alerts and obligation timelines tailored to each client and practice area.

I built the full platform through paired programming to the point of deployment and pilot, built the landing page, and work directly with large bank, VC and law firm clients to shape what gets built next.

  • Retrieval-augmented generation with a Cohere cross-encoder reranker for legal document analysis, cutting input tokens on large statutes by roughly 55 to 60% against the capped baseline
  • LLM evaluation harnesses for relevance, judge consistency and tagging: judge consistency to 20/20 on synthetic cases, tagging output tokens down about 40% at the same recall
  • Planner-routed agentic tool-calling, and a novel knowledge-graph representation of regulatory and document corpora
  • CI/CD via GitHub Actions and code review throughout, with mentorship on secure AI system design from a former DeepMind specialist
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • RAG
  • Cross-encoder reranking
  • LLM evaluation
  • Knowledge graphs
  • GitHub Actions

Founder & Technology Lead · July 2025 – present

Pilots at Oxford and Cambridge from October 2026

Supercharged

Find internships through the people already there.

Cold outreach is how students actually land spring weeks and graduate roles in finance, trading and consulting, and almost nobody does it well. Tell Supercharged the role, the firms and the season; it finds the alumni and analysts already there, scores who will actually reply, and drafts the email in your voice. Then it tracks the whole pipeline.

  • Multi-step agentic search: a planner routes between web-search strategies, external APIs, user clarification and vector search over a cached network (Gemini embeddings, Convex vector index)
  • Multi-agent LLM-as-judge using two model families to verify and score matches, avoiding agreement bias
  • 291 on the waitlist; October pilots lined up with the Cambridge Marshall Society and Oxford Alphafund Society
  • Student ambassadors across seven universities; shipped via GitHub Actions with automated testing
  • Next.js 16
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • Convex
  • Clerk
  • Gemini
  • PostHog
  • Playwright

The product codebase is proprietary. The marketing site and the original MVP are open.

Solo build · 2025

Shipped to the App Store · 200+ downloads · archived

Supercharged: Grow Together (v1, codename Scrollwise)

The feed you're addicted to, pointed at things worth reading.

A React Native app that keeps the mechanics of a short-form feed but fills it with AI industry summaries and long-form ideas: articles, podcasts and books, surfaced by search rather than an engagement optimiser. Released on the iOS App Store in September 2025 as the first product under the Supercharged name.

  • Hybrid retrieval: Gemini embeddings in pgvector and Postgres full-text search, fused with Reciprocal Rank Fusion
  • Progressive search returns lexical hits instantly, then re-ranks once the embedding round-trip resolves
  • 13 Deno edge functions, roughly 160 components, cron-batched push notifications with receipt pruning
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase
  • Postgres
  • pgvector
  • Deno
  • Python
  • EAS

Host & builder · May 2026 – present

16,000+ followers

Get There One Day

A 100% Q&A podcast for ambitious young people, and the community that grew around it.

Answers the questions degree apprentices and school leavers actually ask. It passed 16,000 followers in four months, partners with brands on sponsored content, and got me invited to speak at the Independent Higher Education conference in November on young people's changing attitudes to education.

I also built the site: a free Degree Apprenticeship Playbook, and Charge, an AI assistant that answers apprenticeship questions and reviews CVs and cover letters, with a paid tier.

  • Charge streams replies live from a Convex backend, with per-user daily caps and monthly cost caps
  • Uploads are parsed in the browser so only text ever reaches the server, and it is purged after 30 days
  • Stripe subscriptions, Clerk auth, free and £10/month tiers on different model providers
  • React
  • Vite
  • Convex
  • Clerk
  • Stripe
  • TikTok

Founder & Technology Lead · Sept 2024 – Sept 2025

Wound down

Athenalearn

One-to-one tutoring from students at top universities.

A tutoring startup I ran through my first year at Bath. I recruited and managed a team of more than ten tutors, interviewing each one, and personally delivered over 200 hours of one-to-one tutoring across seven clients. On the technical side I built the website and the interactive progress reports parents used to see how their child was doing.

  • 10+ tutors onboarded and managed; 200+ hours delivered personally
  • Interactive progress reports built on Python analytics
  • Pantheon, a knowledge-management mobile app prototype in React Native
  • React
  • Vite
  • Python
  • React Native

Side project · 2026

Open source

Cortex

A personal AI brain that lives in a folder of markdown.

A local web app that puts a streaming chat interface on top of a plain folder tree. The agent, built on the Claude Agent SDK, reads and writes that tree directly: knowledge notes, its own persistent memory, uploaded files and skills. Because it follows Claude Code's conventions, the CLI and the web app share one brain and one chat history.

  • Express and WebSocket server that spawns the agent per message with the brain as its working directory
  • React front end with a file browser, drag-and-drop inbox and live-streamed replies
  • The brain is a git repo, so every edit the agent makes is diffable and revertible
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Express
  • WebSockets
  • Claude Agent SDK

About

I'm in the third year of the MComp Computer Science at the University of Bath, graduating in 2028. First year came out at 81.5% and won the Netcraft Prize for the top 25 computer science undergraduates at Bath. Outside lectures I've spent the last two years starting things: a tutoring company, an app that made it to the App Store, a podcast that became a community, and a startup that's still going.

The work I like most sits where engineering meets clients: retrieval pipelines, evaluation harnesses and agentic systems, built alongside the people who'll use them. Forward deployed engineering in legal tech has confirmed that's the path.

Away from code I'm a Grade 8 pianist and saxophonist, two years in Bath Big Band, and a former Worcester Warriors academy rugby player.

2026 –
Vantaphai, Forward Deployed Engineer
2026 –
Get There One Day, host
2025 –
Supercharged, founder
2024 – 25
Athenalearn, founder
2024 – 28
University of Bath, MComp Computer Science
2025
Netcraft Prize, top 25 CS undergraduates at Bath
2024
Top 100, UK & Ireland Programming Contest

Contact

The fastest way to reach me is email.