Understand reality
What is actually true on the ground, not what the brief says.
Remove assumptions
Most problems shrink once the inherited assumptions are stripped out.
Design the system
A system, not a project. Systems keep producing outcomes after we leave.
Execute relentlessly
If it doesn't ship, it doesn't count. If it doesn't work, it doesn't count.
Measure outcomes
Honestly. Including when the answer is uncomfortable.
No hype. Just outcomes.
NOMARK is a rejection of how most businesses market themselves. We work with operators who need the outcome to be right the first time: fund managers, insurers, regulated businesses, and the teams building inside them. The form changes; the belief doesn't.
Selected work
05 shipped- 01
Released the NOMARK SDK
an open-source engine that learns how you reason from your AI history and tells every model you use how to answer. Live at nomark.ai.
- 02
Shipped fund-flow analytics for an Australian fund manager
white-labelled, live through their standard reporting cycle, and operated by their own data team.
- 03
Released Sigil
an open-source security scanner that catches malicious packages before their install hooks ever run. Free at sigilsec.ai.
- 04
Built and shipped Exectables
a private bench of retired senior Australian investment-operations professionals, available by the hour for structured mentorship and advisory. Live at exectables.com.
- 05
Founded Operable and designed the Enclave
a knowledge graph for Australian fund managers that runs entirely inside their own perimeter, so sensitive data never leaves it.
- Most companies sell certainty.
- NOMARK seeks truth.
- Most companies sell potential.
- NOMARK delivers outcomes.
- Most companies want attention.
- NOMARK wants results.
Recent thinking
- / 01
The call and the size
TL;DR: Elm Wealth ran eight language models through a real historical trading simulation with leverage. The models were credible at picking direction. They were catastrophic at sizing. The loss, in every case, came from the multiplier, not the view. This is a structural finding, not a statistical one. * Language models can form directional market views that beat human benchmarks. * They consistently over-leverage: average gross leverage near 30x against a defensible 7.5–15% volatility target.
- / 02
The Excel formula that belongs in your privacy policy
You have until 10 December to know where your software makes decisions about people TL;DR: APP 1.7 to 1.9 commence 10 December 2026. Every APP entity must disclose automated decision-making (ADM) in its privacy policy. The disclosure takes an afternoon to write. Finding what to disclose is a four-month programme. Almost no organisation has started. * "Computer program" covers Excel scorecards, rules engines, and legacy decision trees, not just AI models. * Human sign-off does not exempt you.
- / 03
Hidden reasoning is an information asset. You have not classified it.
Hidden model reasoning is an information asset you have not classified, cannot sanitise, and cannot verify. What the reasoning-trace extraction paper means for CPS 234, your retention obligations, and what counts as evidence in an AI system.
- / 04
What banks are actually being asked to build right now
TL;DR: Two of the world's most powerful financial regulators publicly admitted, six days apart, that the governance framework for autonomous AI in regulated financial services doesn't exist yet. Firms that treat this as a compliance retrofit will spend 2027 explaining their certifications. Firms that treat it as an architecture problem will have the substrate in place before the rules land. * On 23 July 2026, the Bank of England's Deputy Governor signalled that agentic AI may require purpose-b
Studio
NOMARK operates a small portfolio of products built against the same philosophy. Some are open source, some deploy inside a single client's perimeter, some are live for anyone: security tooling, fund-manager infrastructure, fund-flow analytics, bookkeeping, preference inference. Different vehicles. Same belief.
Contact
The outcome is the proof. Everything else is noise.
The fastest way to reach us is email. A short note describing the problem is more useful than a meeting request.