Victor du Mesnil du Buisson

(self-directed)

• ◆Authorisation & governance
• ●Coordination between agents
• ■Memory & continuity
• ▲Embodiment & constraint
• ✳Falsification & method
• ◗Systems & implementation

• ARCANA — Conceived and built a framework for modelling intelligence as relationships and evolving processes rather than isolated objects. The system represents how patterns form, stabilise, change and recur across agents and groups, with every transition reproducible and auditable.
• Embodied agency — Developed an architecture in which reasoning proposes possibilities but cannot act alone: bodily constraints, resources, care, social rules and explicit authorisation jointly determine what becomes action. Private internal state remains separate from public consequence.
• Memory & continuity — Developed a model in which memory is carried in how a system changes through experience, not merely retrieved from storage. It separates learned dispositions, exact state recovery, an evolving self-model, identity, public history and present authority—relations often collapsed into a single idea of memory.
• Reasoning & collective intelligence — Unified perception and reasoning as geometry over relationships: structure defines possible connections, measurement establishes what evidence supports, dynamics shapes candidates and deliberation compares paths. A social layer separately handles causal evidence, cooperation, governance and repair without reading private internal states.
• Research & implementation — Built a falsification-led programme: questions specified in advance, deterministic validators, machine-readable evidence, retained negative results and explicit limits. Direct AI coding agents across modular Python and optional Rust/CUDA paths, promoting only results that survive replay and reuse.

Venture Studio · Singapore

• ◆Authorisation & governance
• ✳Falsification & method
• ◗Systems & implementation

• Championed rapid prototyping across the studio, halving product development cycles through a reusable code stack and compliant cloud infrastructure — the difficulty being architecture that satisfies a regulated bank's controls without abandoning iteration speed.
• Identified and analysed green-field Metaverse and Sustainability opportunities for Citi APAC; formulated the disruptive innovation thesis and advised leadership on where to place strategic bets.
• Took 7 nascent products through validation with business heads across the organisation, building value propositions against each unit's priorities to secure executive sponsorship.
• Supported the launch of cross-business products processing millions of USD per quarter, including novel financial instruments and specialised fintech infrastructure.

Video Streaming AdTech · Singapore

• ◗Systems & implementation
• ✳Falsification & method

• Hired and led a team of 4 engineers from IIT Delhi on a neural network research project: soft semantic segmentation of video, restructuring cloud training to cut costs by 90%.
• Invented and built the underlying technology — custom streaming servers integrating programmatically targeted product placements directly into video streams.
• Secured alpha deployments with 4 enterprise clients and synthesised their feedback into the product roadmap.

Singapore

• ✳Falsification & method

• Advised seven pre-seed and seed-stage startups on positioning, product roadmaps and investor narrative; two secured seed funding. Defined and shipped MVPs on a six-week definition-to-deployment cycle.

Private Tutor Marketplace · Singapore

• ●Coordination between agents
• ✳Falsification & method

• Grew a two-sided marketplace to 150k monthly organic visits and a pool of 5,000 tutors, outranking hundreds of local competitors; lifted conversion from 3% to 15% through iterative UX research.

e-Commerce Services · Philippines

• ●Coordination between agents
• ✳Falsification & method

• Built the business from plan to breakeven inside the first month; hired and trained the first 10 employees and drove 100% revenue growth over 12 months.

Venture Builder · Philippines

• ●Coordination between agents

• Set up a regional support centre, scaling it to 200 staff and USD 80k monthly revenue; led localisation of Zalora Philippines across marketing and operations.

United Kingdom

Head of the Engineering Student Union (3,000 students); personal recommendation from the Rector, Sir Keith O'Nions.