Background
I trained as a scientist. My MSc at the University of Cape Town was in statistical genetics, using statistics to reconstruct how species evolved from the information in their DNA. From there I spent five years in strategy consulting, for private equity and investment clients and then in insurance.
In 2012 I co-founded Guidepost, a digital healthcare business, and ran it for thirteen years. We built the software, data and compliance infrastructure behind a diabetes nursing service for thirty thousand patients.
Today I run Phase Transitions. Most weeks split between building an AI system on a client's data, in code, and sitting with the people who run the business to decide what it should do. Phase Transitions (Pty) Ltd is the company you contract with: registered in South Africa, insured, with its security and compliance posture published. The person you deal with is me.
The work
- Bespoke builds
Your information sits in an accounting system, a CRM, spreadsheets and documents. I connect it, make it trustworthy, and put AI on top so your team can ask questions of your own numbers and check the answers. Fixed scope and price, or a standing arrangement. You end up with working software running on your live data. Recent work in pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, geospatial data, wealth management, legal and accounting firms, media production and home security.
- Live AI workshops
One or two days with your leadership team on a realistic model of your own business, built from public information so nothing confidential is needed to start. Your team tries AI agents on figures that look like yours, builds prototypes, and leaves with a decision on what to build.
- Platforms
Two products I build and run. An accounting analytics platform connects to a client's accounting and bank data, reconciles it, and presents a dashboard with an AI analyst. WealthVault consolidates the client statements an advisory firm's advisers upload into one view per client.
- Agent assurance
If an AI agent is going to do work in your business, someone has to be able to say what it may do, check what it did, and answer for it. I keep a field guide to agentic AI risk, write about the practice of it weekly, and build to the same standard.
- Speaking
Conference talks and executive teaching on what AI does and does not do in a working business.
Writing
I write weekly, from the business view down to the technical detail underneath.
Security and compliance
How client data is held, the named sub-processors, and the practice's self-assessed SOC 2 posture are published at trust.phasetransitions.ai.
Contact
Name
Graham Rowe
Location
Johannesburg, South Africa
Phone