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51.5311 N // 0.7959 E — SHOEBURYNESS

James Rands

Dyslexic, Autism Spectrum, ADHD, CPTSD, Hypervigilance & no filter. Civilian mentoring by former British 22 SAS, Royal Marine Commando & Royal Navy personnel.

FOCUS
Fullstack AI + C-suite
OPERATION
Copperhead // 2028
STATUS
Taking bookings

JR//DIRECTORY

51.5311 N // 0.7959 E — SHOEBURYNESS

IMG//CREDITS

An orangutan seems to pose for a picture in a peat swamp near the Nyaru Menteng Rescue Center, which is run by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. Over 3,000 orangutans are killed a year from palm-oil plantations, meat hunting and for the illegal pet trade leading to unsustainable declines in numbers, especially in Kalimantan.

Photograph by Mattias Klum, Nat Geo Image Collection

CLK//ZULU TIME

This station runs on Zulu — Coordinated Universal Time, the Z on the end. It’s the military and aviation convention: one clock for every operation, anywhere on Earth, immune to time zones and daylight saving.

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YOUR TIME
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If the two lines differ, that’s your time zone doing its job — the UK, for example, sits an hour ahead of Zulu through British Summer Time and matches it exactly in winter.

FILE 01//AI Fullstack Engineering

AI Fullstack Engineering

I'm engineering really decent products via multi-model agent orchestration — I have a few personal startups that are orders of magnitude more advanced than the sum of entrenched competitors and maintain 13 granted patents securing ~7bn eyeballs against corporate larceny and purloin.

I'm working with customers both old and new on a fractional basis, I can deliver more value in a day that would have taken squads months to deliver a couple of years ago. I focus on new features and products, remain platform and technology stack agnostic and A/B test for hyperscale integration.

IR35 is still an annoying blocker so I work for multiple clients to circumvent these daft bureaucratic handcuffs and self promote to avoid unnecessary and costly recruitment consultancy fee structures.

In 1996 I was an original webmaster, now in 2026 I'm having loads of fun being one again but at ridiculous scale and capability!

  • Design
  • Frontend
  • Backend
  • Infrastructure
  • Monetization

STARTUP PRODUCTS

  • S/001

    BULBO logo

    AI Com's, Voice, Video & Social Networking

    BULBO is the most advanced human connection product in the world by at least an order of magnitude. Over a decade in the planning, the AI frontier edge is now capable enough to execute upon my original core product vision.

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    EXCALIBUR logo

    AI Com's, Drones, Networks & Satellites

    EXCALIBUR TECHNOLOGY client products are beasted hard during safe controlled assessment by Tier 1 human beings and frontier AI models. We assist our clients with design, test and evaluation of the most advanced engineering in the world.

SELECTED CONTRACT ENGAGEMENTS

  • C/001

    UBS logo

    Infrastructure Consultant

    UBS, the largest bank in Switzerland. Helped lead and build the innovation responsible for automated real-time citrix platform orchestration and push firm wide adoption of Microsoft Azure for secure cloud based developer desktop environments.

  • C/002

    JPMC logo

    Infrastructure Consultant

    JP Morgan, the largest bank in North America. Helped build new features and maintain a platform that managed critical distributed datacenter hardware for citrix remote desktop virtual platforms, packaged application delivery and connection group policies.

  • C/003

    ING logo

    Hybrid mobile developer

    ING, the largest bank in the Netherlands. Helped implement a cordova webview into the native mobile retail iOS and Android banking app's and performance test an Angular SDK to engage firm developers to contribute ideas and product innovation.

  • C/004

    HSBC logo

    Lead Consultant Developer

    HSBC, the largest bank in Great Britain. Helped build internal FX Traders a Twitter like platform for business and market cross pollination of trade ideas because banking compliance obviously wouldn't let them use the real public facing Twitter.

  • C/005

    FREELANCE logo

    Consultant Developer

    Ford, Morgan Stanley, The Sun, NoTW, The Times, McDonald's, SKY, Land Rover, RAC, Kenwood, Morrisions, Bacardi, DailyMail, H Samuel, Channel4, GOV.UK, LIVE8, AOL, IBM, CISCO, BT, American Express, Nestle, Met Police, PWC, ICI, Fidelity and EuroTunnel. Using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, Perl, PHP, ASP, WAP & C/C++ I helped build website technology products.

FILE 02//Programme Management

Programme Management

On-demand fractional CEO / CTO / CIO — board-level leadership without the full-time seat commitment. I step into programmes that need serious experience and firepower staying engaged operationally until all business threats are eliminated.

My core mindset, developed through years of high level Financial Services experience is naturally aligned to how the SAS conduct themselves via "Chinese parliament".

A tradition of collective, informal decision-making where every rank, from trooper to the commander, has an equal say in operational planning and problem-solving.

The goal is to foster creative thinking, avoid groupthink, enhance risk analysis and build team cohesion and trust for operational excellence.

  • Acquisitions
  • Features
  • Growth
  • IP
  • Marketing
  • Venture Capital

FILE 03//Human Responsibility

Human Responsibility

3,000+

orangutans are killed a year from palm-oil plantations, meat hunting and for the illegal pet trade leading to unsustainable declines in numbers, especially in Kalimantan.

I’m being mentored & trained by former British 22 SAS, Royal Marine Commando & Royal Navy personnel — climbing mountains, carrying heavy weight over long distances & building cutting edge communications products — Why? I need to be mentally and physically ready for what comes next!

OPERATION COPPERHEAD//JUNGLE PHASE//2028

In 2028 we go into the jungle, tune in and survive there for the duration of the operation. If you can afford to help support the mission, every contribution counts!

Support the mission

FILE 04//Midterm Main Thing

Midterm Main Thing

We assist our clients with design, test and evaluation of the most advanced engineering in the world. If you have interesting products or services that need beasting, we are taking enquiries here: Excalibur Technology

STATUS
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BOOTSTRAPPING
BUDGET
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£210M PROJECT BUDGET

Security clearance, top secret classified projects & hardcore technology innovation.

FILE 05//Massive Main Thing

Massive Main Thing

This is really ambitious and will change the fortunes of Great Britain forever, it will need a special relationship with our US cousins, Royal Ascension and an Act of Parliament.

I have found a facility and created a hypothetical master plan for a new UK Spaceport location, it can be found here: Starbase UK

STATUS
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MOSTLY CLASSIFIED
BUDGET
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£33B PROJECT BUDGET

A herculean effort is needed for humanity to take to the stars exploring beyond our planet and eventually the solar system.

What's left of us tea swilling traditional Brit's want to lean into this mission, we've got great ideas needing validation to help start digging Blighty out the proverbial mud.

Once a proper UK Government is formed where common sense & business acumen prevail we can mark the end of 3 decades of nonsensical student politics!

FILE 06//Get in contact

Get in contact

The fastest route is a call — pick a time that suits you and it lands straight in the diary.

Book a calldiary@jamesrands.com

NET//FIND ME ON

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Shoeburyness, Essex, UK · Working worldwide