Oscar Gavin
I build agentic systems that hold an organisation’s memory and carry its work: what was decided, what is owed, and what has to change. Chief Technology Officer at Foremost, a board-level AI advisory. Before that, AI products at four startups.
Work
Organisational memory and work system
Foremost · 2026One system, shared by five founders. A living record of decisions, facts, and actions, built from meetings, email, and company documents, and the workspace where the work is done. Tasks are drawn from the record, and finished work returns to it. Judgement calls are surfaced to people, never resolved by the machine. One agent, one queue, one vault, and re-runs that change nothing.
Plain Markdown in Git, so the company owns its memory and can trace every change.
Product direction · Architecture · Build
Parliamentary record, made askable
LHoFT · 2026A knowledge graph of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies for the LHoFT AI Experience Center: 160 sittings and 50,000 votes, with a chat that answers from the record and cites every claim verbatim to its source. Retrieval only, no stored opinion.
Research · Design · Build
Self-improving agent harness
Research · 2026An agent that learns from its own traces offline, with a growing evaluation suite as the only gatekeeper. No per-change human review. Safety comes from the tests, not the reviewer.
Research · Design
Proactive voice agent
Personal · 2026An assistant that calls me when the agents it supervises need a decision, so the work continues while I am away from a desk. Every actor loads one constitution, and an evaluation bank gates every skill it writes into itself.
Design · Build
AI operating-model redesign
Foremost · 2025Advising boards on where the work itself has to change, rather than which tools to adopt.
Research · Strategic direction
Also
Natural-language CAD
Describe a part, get a printable model. Failed geometry is classified, retried, and checked by vision before it reaches the viewport.
Self-driving golf trolley
A Motocaddy that drives itself between holes along a route you walked once. A Rust engine fuses GPS, gyro, and wheel ticks in a Kalman filter, steers by pure pursuit with backlash compensation, and stops inside a geofence. Tuned in a physics simulator before it touched the hardware.
Earlier
Kolleno
Invoice automation and an advisory agent whose emails learn from how people edit them.
FleetRiskSmart
Driver telemetry explained in plain language to fleet managers.
Tod.ai
Conversational product recommendation for online shoppers.
Open-Info
Order processing and a voice assistant for a wholesale automation startup.
Orbital Cycle
Connected exercise platform with AI-guided workouts, used in UCLan research studies.
Education
MSc Artificial Intelligence, St Andrews
2023–24Dissertation: captioning ancient coins with Transformer and Mamba models.
BSc Computer Science and AI, Sheffield
2020–23Dissertation: UNet and Transformer segmentation for biomedical imaging.