Lawrence Knowles · Collingham, Earth

I work in
systems, and wonder
about everything.

Product leader, implementation adviser and lifelong tinkerer—connecting people, technology and the odd impossible idea.

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01 / The practice

Making complex things feel human.

I help HR software organisations make better product, delivery and implementation decisions—shaped by years across SaaS, payroll, enterprise delivery and customer transformation.

Away from the roadmap, I build experiments to understand how technology sees, remembers, moves and tells stories.

Product strategyImplementation assuranceAI experimentsLocal history

02 / Selected experiments

Things I’ve
sent into orbit.

Small investigations into vision, memory, old machines and new intelligence. Drag the constellation or use the arrows.

Computer vision · 01

Flower Detection

Teaching a machine to notice the natural world—and show its working.

AI vision · 02

Hand Mapping

Real-time landmark tracking turned into tactile visual feedback.

AI + OCR · 03

Archive Automation

Extracting structured records from local history cards to make memory searchable and useful.

Python + AI · 04

Wisteria Timelapse

Compressing a season into a moment without losing its rhythm.

6502 game · 05

Space Bike

Revisiting the C64 original—a simulator where limited memory makes room for imagination.

A game I wrote at 17 and had published alongside ten other Imagineered games—four of which reached the Gallup top ten in the same month.

Place + motion · 06

WW1 Village Walk

An animated journey connecting Collingham’s lanes, landmarks and First World War stories.

Local-first AI · 07

Signal Garden

An autonomous research and semantic memory system for ideas that grow together.

01 / 07

The river keeps
its own time.

Collingham.org is an evolving village guide: local walks, heritage corners and Trent-side views made easier to discover.

Walk the village ↗

River TrentFootpathsLiving archive

04 / Professional work

Clarity when
the stakes are real.

Product strategy

Roadmaps that connect customer needs, commercial goals and practical delivery.

Implementation assurance

Independent oversight, structured review and earlier, better decisions.

Stakeholder alignment

Translating complexity into a direction people can understand and act on.

05 / Moving pictures

Experiments are better
when you can see them breathe.

▶Visit the YouTube channelFilms, demos & curious detours↗

06 / Make contact

Have a complex problem,
or a beautifully strange idea?

lozknowles@mac.com ↗

Open to product leadership, advisory and implementation assurance conversations.

I work in systems, and wonder about everything.