enterprise search projects I’ve helped lead
HELLO, I'M GARFIELD
I build useful things with search, AI and a healthy amount of curiosity.
I'm a software architect in London. Most days I help large teams make search and AI genuinely useful. After hours, I make and run small products of my own.
A LITTLE ABOUT ME
I like the bit between “we have an idea” and “people are actually using it.”
That usually means getting into the messy middle: understanding the real problem, sketching the architecture, testing whether it works, and helping a team get it over the line.
Search has been the thread through most of my career. These days that naturally includes semantic retrieval, RAG, LLMs, and the very important question: is this actually better?
A FEW NUMBERS I'M PROUD OF
No vanity metrics. Just useful context.centred on AI or semantic search
better relevance in a client benchmark
monthly organic clicks on a side project
THINGS I'VE MADE
The side projects keep me honest.
When you own the whole thing, there's nowhere to hide. You have to decide what matters, ship it, watch what happens, and fix what doesn't.
01
AI TOOLS FOR UK DRIVERS
Garage Rates
Making car repair costs a little less mysterious.
I’m building Garage Rates to help UK drivers understand labour rates, repair costs, and what might be wrong before they call a garage. The live AI diagnostic turns a description of a symptom into likely causes, urgency, and typical costs. I’m now evolving the estimate flow into an agentic experience that can work through more of the journey with the user.
02
A USEFUL UK DIRECTORY
Find a Launderette
A side project that grew into a proper data product.
I built and still run this programmatic directory. It now brings in around 12.3K Google clicks and 1.7K Bing clicks each month. I use the Claude API to enrich business data and Claude Code as part of the development harness.
03
A CREATIVE APP FOR CHILDREN
Creatiiv Kids
An AI product I took from an idea to both app stores.
I built the iOS and Android app, with Gemini handling server-side generation through Supabase. It includes usage controls, subscriptions, analytics, and production monitoring. Claude Code and Google Antigravity were part of how I built it.
AND THEN THERE'S THE DAY JOB
I help big teams make search smarter—and make sure “smarter” can be measured.
Over the last few years I've led the architecture on 20+ enterprise search projects across EMEA and North America. Four focused on AI or semantic search.
On one head-to-head benchmark, a semantic-boosting framework I designed delivered 10% better relevance than the client's existing platform.
I built a retrieval evaluation framework because “this feels better” isn't a release criterion. It gave teams a repeatable way to compare approaches.
I'm equally comfortable in a technical workshop or an executive briefing—helping people make sense of the choices without hiding behind jargon.
WHERE I'VE WORKED
A career built around finding better answers.
2020 — now
Principal Architect
Lucidworks
Three roles, a lot of search problems, and enterprise AI work across EMEA and North America.
2017 — 2020
Senior Endeca Consultant
Cirrus10
Commerce search, large migrations, and the kind of data problems that teach you to be very precise.
2015 — 2023
Co-founder & Solutions Architect
Dizari
Mobile and SaaS products for public- and private-sector organisations in Jamaica.
2011 — 2017
Technical Consultant & Engineer
RealDecoy / Sagicor
Where I built my foundations in search, commerce, and financial-services software.
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