▾ chris_midgley/
open to work. uk based. in person preferred.
chartered project leader. four years applied ai, year two running the business. non-technical builder, ten years aligning humans on the street, in rooms, or in the system.
├─ ▾ proof/ // hpc

i automated myself out of a £100k+ contract at hinkley point c, the largest mega-project in europe, inside six months. before agents were cool. inside a regulated environment rife with shadow ai nobody at the top knew about.

the architecture took a week in power apps. the rest, the part that actually mattered, took the six months.

  • senior stakeholder engagement, up to programme director and tier-one principal contractors
  • third-party integrations across the supply chain, before integration meant an api endpoint
  • motivational interviews with 40+ staff to understand role impacts, what they did, and what they did not want to lose
  • ux and adoption work so the tool was used after i left, not shelved
it taught me what most ai conversations still miss: the model is the cheap and easy part.

everything i build, proevo.ai, the advisory at built around us, the work i pitch, comes from that pattern. building the tool is fast. making the change sustainable is hard. there's no shortcuts the second one.

├─ ▾ availability/ // independent

independent advisor.

  • advisory engagements, half-day to multi-day, ongoing or fixed-term
  • solutions architecture and adoption work, in person preferred
  • all work considered, including international
  • proevo.ai pilots
  • or a coffee, and connection

no 'book a slot'. send me an email or a whatsapp and we'll arrange something.

email mail@chrismidgley.com
whatsapp +44 7516 252340
├─ ▾ experience/ // 10+ years

10+ years in project delivery across construction, energy, and infrastructure, four of those building with applied ai. people first, then process, then technology. the order is not negotiable.

  • chartered project professional (chpp), mapm. the rare one. project depth, not just construction. it is why i chose apm over rics
  • founder, proevo.ai. local-first, model-agnostic, governed ai for project delivery. usb to cde. alpha live, waiting list open
  • founder, built around us. human-first ai advisory. should-you before how. helping clients decide what to automate, what not to, and what to do with the time back
  • previously: client-side project management consultancy across the uk and europe. regulated capital projects, mega-projects, vuca delivery
  • before that: front line and time in the cid. interview techniques i still use every week

proud girl dad x2. lifting heavy stuff. freting over football.

├─ ▾ skills/ // human + technical

human first, technical second. trained for both.

  • i listen, and talk with anyone in the room. i adjust approach, not message
  • ten years getting people aligned in rooms where nobody agreed when they walked in
  • i listen, deeply, broadly, often uncomfortably. people watch. interview techniques learnt in the cid, refined since
  • comfortable with ambiguity. it is where most projects live
  • non-technical builder, developer mindset. i do not ship code. i ship things that work
  • claude for enterprise, the api, claude code, mcp. used in real work, not slides
  • evaluation frameworks, prompt design, agent architecture, governed deployment
  • typical scot, i do not like spending tokens. i will show you how to optimise
  • obsessive, compulsive learner. i will listen, understand the problem better than stated, see optimals and build
applied ai solutions architecture change management enterprise adoption regulated industries claude power platform mcp evals governance
├─ ▾ why_ai/ // the honest answer

beating the algorithm in champ man at fourteen. breaking things and putting them back together better. obsession with leading-edge tech. yes, all of that.

but mostly, ai supercharges what i already do for a living. i understand humans. i listen. i see patterns and flows. i live three steps ahead. ai is the first technology in a long time that actually lets me serve more people, faster, without diluting the part that matters, the listening.

the obvious answer was adapt or be left behind. the real answer is i back myself to solve any problem i am given the chance to. ai widens the surface i can work on. that is the entire reason. others should be able to, too.

this matters: i am a conscientious objector about parts of the ai industry. hype, displacement framed as inevitability, automation pitched without honesty about cost. i have my ethics, and the only way to influence how ai is deployed is to serve with skin in the game.

├─ ▾ notes/ // in progress

lessons of the past, and yesterday the book. informed, personal.

shorter pieces appear on builtaroundus.com. thinking out loud.

└─ ▾ pod/ // soon

the real hitl conversations with people.

launching 2026.

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