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The second strand of the practice: software and AI I build for small professional practices in the built environment, as a chartered surveyor running my own firm on these tools.

Cooper & Codex has two integrated strands. One is building surveying. The other is this: software and AI for professional practice in the built environment, built and stress-tested in real surveying work before I offer it to anyone else.

The surveying validates the software. The software differentiates the surveying. Neither strand is a side project.

The knowledge systems work was born from need, as the best tools often are.

I work in an environment where large bodies of professional information need to be accessed and recalled on demand: regulatory guidance, maintenance records, technical standards, project histories and so on. Without a careful system to curate all this, much of it can sit effectively inaccessible, and be expensively rediscovered each time it's needed.

I began to build systems that can hold it properly: AI-augmented frameworks that ingest source documents and render their contents into structured, interlinked, navigable, specialist knowledge bases. You can ask a question of these, and receive a considered answer with referenced sources and gaps identified for further research.

I built these for my own use, and it turns out they'll be useful to others, too. I designed them from first principles, for the specific quality and reliability demands that regulated professional practice places on information. The central piece, an auto-wiki for now, compounds: every source added and every question asked makes it sharper. I've built one for my own RICS regulatory knowledge, and the framework is flexible enough to adapt to a wide variety of use cases.

The same instinct produced a second, smaller set of tools, for people working alongside AI agents. Those are the nearest to release, and products says where they have got to.

I think of this work as part of a tradition much older than what today's tools make possible. There is something old-fashioned about it: a patient structuring of scattered knowledge so it can be found, used and passed on. The tools might be new, but the need and the intention are not.

  • Products

    The Cooper & Codex software suite: Dictum (dictation-to-report), Archivum (self-maintaining knowledge wiki) and a growing set of tools for professional practice. In development.

  • AI Advisory

    Grounded advice on adopting AI in regulated practice: readiness assessments, implementation plans, custom agent and persona builds, and bespoke CPD.