SJ.

Steve
James.

Introduction

Product Manager and Strategist, based in the United Kingdom.

I'm a Product Leader and AI Strategy Consultant. I write about agile product management, AI strategy, and outcome-driven delivery. Specialising in turning complexity into clarity and ideas into impact.

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Product Strategy.

Vision, discovery & OKRs

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AI & Data.

Applied ML for products

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Delivery & Agile.

Outcome-driven execution

15+ Years of Experience
30 Published Articles
4 Portfolio Projects
Previously at
Thomson ReutersRefinitivThird BridgeLondon Stock Exchange Group
Writing

Latest Articles.

Notes on product management, AI strategy, and how to ship outcomes in complex organisations.

Product Friction and the Comfort Crisis
· Book Review

Product Friction and the Comfort Crisis

Removing friction is a reliable product instinct, but it can quietly harden into an end in itself. What the psychology of effort, and a book about voluntary discomfort, say about when frictionless is the wrong target.

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· AI

Governance Is a Differentiator: Safety, Regulation, and Incident Readiness for AI Products

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· AI

Triage: The Diagnostic Discipline That Separates Fixable From Fundamental

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· AI

Context Engineering: What Comes After Prompt Engineering

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· AI

The Eval Gap: Why Most AI Products Ship Blind

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Portfolio

Selected Projects.

Recent product and engineering projects — applied AI, internal tooling, and experiments at the intersection of strategy and delivery.

May 2026

Technitium HA DNS Cluster

→ January 2026 - Concluded

Project Jennifer: The Lifecycle of an AI Agent

→ Current Project (POC)

Reddit Product Sentiment Monitor (POC)

→ Active / Iterative Refinement

AI-Orchestrated Homelab Supervisor

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Contact

Questions
or thoughts?

[email protected] →
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"Data is for navigation. Conviction is for destination."