AI-native products, intelligent pipelines,
and custom solutions — crafted in France,
deployed everywhere.
Creative director turned AI architect. Two decades building visual worlds for UK festivals, BBC, and global brands — now building intelligent systems from a studio in France. The creative instinct never left. It just learned to write code.
Trained at the École des Arts Décoratifs, Strasbourg, Charlie's career spans motion graphics, film, live visuals, video mapping, art direction, branding, and web design across festivals, brands, and live events on an international stage.
Clients have included BBC, Sony, Guinness, London Fashion Week, Elle Style Awards, the Genius Group Global Entrepreneur Summit, Paul Ricard Global Congress, UK festivals, and immersive theatre productions at Carrouges Castle, Normandy. Self-taught and relentlessly curious — the medium changes, the drive doesn't.
Creating unique visual identities that bring brands to life — logo design, graphic charters, and application across all digital and print media. Expert in both building new brands from scratch and redesigning existing identities for new contexts and markets.
From simple logo animations to complex visual effects sequences — dynamic, engaging animated content combining video, illustration, 2D animation, sound, and typography. Proficient in After Effects, Premiere, and a wide range of motion tools.
Transforming any surface into a dynamic canvas for video, animation, and visual effects using specialised projection technology. Concerts, festivals, corporate events, experiential installations. Software: MadMapper, VDMX.
Short films, documentaries, corporate videos — with a strong sense of visual style and dedication to storytelling. Shooting with Blackmagic URSA Mini 4.6K and BMPCC 4K, Nikon lenses, professional lighting and sound. On location or studio.
Professional, user-friendly websites built on WordPress — custom theme development, plugin integration, e-commerce, and ongoing maintenance. From simple brochure sites to complex platforms, delivered on time and on budget.
Building and managing social media presence across Facebook, Instagram, and beyond. Engaging content creation, campaign strategy, brand awareness and lead generation — tailored to each platform and audience.
Around 2023, Charlie's trajectory shifted decisively into software and AI development — not as a career change, but as a natural evolution. The same systems thinking that drove complex live productions now drives full-stack product architecture.
Today Charlie builds AI-native products end-to-end: from Next.js front-ends and Supabase backends to Python data pipelines, iOS/macOS apps in Swift, and Metal GPU compute shaders. Claude Code and Claude CLI are central to the workflow, with CLAUDE.md context-management as standard practice across every project.
The creative instinct shapes everything — from UI decisions to data visualisation to the conceptual framing of each product. Charlie doesn't just build tools; he builds worlds with internal logic.
900,000+ megalithic sites. Documentary pipeline, available in English and French.
Augmented reality companion with full celestial pipeline — sky sphere, UV mapping, Sun/star positioning from HYG database.
UK accounting app with Lloyds CSV import, entity-aware duplicate detection, tax year analytics. French fork for auto-entrepreneurs.
DAW-style LED timeline sequencer for macOS/iPadOS with Raspberry Pi show player. WS2812B/SK6812 support via DDP protocol.
Kabbalistic AI memory architecture. Python package, 36/36 tests passing, terminal dashboard, and sealed identity covenant system.
Metal-based node video mixer with ISF shader support, QuinLED/DDP output, multi-video playback — and the overarching research framework.
Recreation of the 1984 Apple II classic. 50 missions across 5 campaigns — Ancient World, Medieval, Colonial, World Wars, Modern Warfare. Helicopter combat, unit purchasing, real-time tactics.
Real-time global intelligence dashboard — live market feeds (BTC, ETH, Gold, Crude), prioritised news intel with strike/nuclear/naval/diplo tagging, live broadcast streams from Al Jazeera, Euronews & Al Arabiya, and a CCTV network spanning Middle East, Europe, Americas, Asia-Pacific and Space.
ASO arbitrage tool identifying French App Store opportunities from successful English-market apps. 30-ranked opportunity pipeline, scored market analysis, and automated competitor research.
A startup co-founded with Ameet Mehta. AI-powered team performance platform — structured AI interviews, 13-protocol analysis pipeline (Gottman, EFT, NVC, ACE/PACE, attachment theory), visual graph node system with 26 agent node types. Health scores, risk factors, and intervention roadmaps across 25+ visualisation components.
AI-powered podcast production platform — automated editing, transcription, show notes generation, and distribution pipeline for independent creators.
AI-native educational platform for UK schools. Zero-hallucination content generation from 186 validated curriculum topics. Assessment & quizzes, knowledge organisers, National Curriculum coverage tracking, and teacher resources across 14 subjects and all key stages.
The most important challenge of the AI era is not technical — it's relational. As AI accelerates toward AGI and beyond, the quality of the relationship between humans and AI systems will be central to alignment. A machine that reasons at superhuman scale but cannot be trusted, cannot be understood, or cannot read the quality of contact between itself and the people it serves, is not aligned — it is merely powerful.
Charlie's work in RI draws on two decades at the intersection of human gatherings and technology — and on 100 days of Vipassana silent retreat and deep study of contemplative traditions. The meditation practice is not background colour. It is a direct training in observing the dynamics that underpin every conflict, every misattunement, and every moment of genuine contact.
This shapes everything about how Charlie builds with AI. Not as a simulation of intelligence, but as a mirror — a catalyst for deeper human awareness and more honest relationship. The goal is AI that understands between: not just content, but the quality of contact. That orientation matters now. As ASI approaches, the capacity to relate — to attune, to repair, to remain present under pressure — may be the most important thing we can model in our systems.
"The most important question of the AI era is not what machines can do. It is what happens to the relationships between people — and between people and AI — when the nature of contribution, value, and identity is disrupted at scale."
— Charlie Taillard"One hundred days of silence taught me more about human communication than any book. You learn to watch the mind before it speaks — that gap is where everything happens."
— Charlie TaillardEvery system has an aesthetic. Every interface tells a story. The engineering serves the vision — not the other way around.
No single discipline defines the work. When a project demands Metal shaders, LLM pipelines or AR celestial mapping — those skills get built. Fast.
From archaeoastronomy to accounting, from live festivals to Kabbalistic AI memory — the connective thread is systems thinking and deep curiosity.
AI isn't a feature added at the end. Every product is designed from the ground up to think, respond and evolve with its users.
CLAUDE.md, system prompts, memory architectures — the discipline of context is what separates brittle demos from resilient products.
Based in France. Delivered everywhere. Fast turnaround, direct communication, no bloat — the independent studio advantage.
AI product development — full-stack builds from concept to deployment. LLM pipelines, agentic systems, Claude/Anthropic API integration, MCP servers.
iOS & macOS development — Swift/SwiftUI, ARKit, RealityKit, Metal GPU shaders. Complex, production-grade apps.
Creative direction & brand identity — for companies that want something genuinely distinctive. Logo systems, visual language, motion.
AI advisory — helping founders and teams understand where AI fits, what to build, and how to prompt, architect and integrate responsibly.
Relational intelligence products — conflict resolution, team dynamics, mediation tools. This is a rare specialisation and projects in this space are especially welcome.
Surveillance, military, or behavioural manipulation systems
Projects with no meaningful human dimension — I need to care about what I'm building
Large agency-style teams and slow-moving committee processes
Defined deliverable, agreed timeline, fixed price. Best for products with clear requirements — a new app, a pipeline, a brand identity system.
Ongoing development and creative partnership. Monthly commitment, priority access, regular delivery cycles. Ideal for startups evolving fast.
Strategy, architecture review, AI integration planning. Half-day or full-day sessions. No commitment — just clear thinking when you need it.
To start: send a brief message — what you're building, where you're stuck, or what you're trying to create. I'll respond within 48 hours. No agencies, no account managers. Direct.
The world's megalithic heritage — standing stones, dolmens, menhirs, stone circles — was scattered across dozens of incompatible databases in multiple languages, with no unified platform, no visual discovery layer, and no way to explore astronomical alignments at scale.
Built a Python GPU pipeline (Metal-accelerated) to compute solar and stellar alignments across 900,000+ sites using precession-corrected equinox calculations. A Next.js/Supabase platform surfaces this data with multi-language support, a LLM-powered story generation.
Statistical analysis confirmed 18σ enrichment above random chance for astronomical alignments — strong evidence for intentional orientation across cultures. The platform now serves researchers, archaeoastronomers and curious explorers in English and French, with an iOS AR companion app in active development.
Team conflict and relational breakdown are almost universally handled reactively — after the damage is done. Existing tools are generic wellness apps or expensive human consultants. Neither detects friction early, neither scales, and neither produces evidence-grounded intervention roadmaps that teams can actually act on.
Consultants run structured AI interviews with managers, feeding a 13-protocol analysis pipeline — Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Non-Violent Communication, ACE/PACE psychological safety, attachment theory, and more. A visual graph node system lets practitioners design agentic conversation flows: 26 node types including AI interview agents, branching logic, data extraction, synthesis nodes, and live SSE monitoring via a Command Centre. Team members complete private interviews for a 360-degree view. Results surface as health scores across 6 weighted dimensions (Trust 1.5×, Psychological Safety 1.3×, Communication 1.2×), risk factors, conflict patterns, and a prioritised intervention roadmap — visualised across 25+ components including radar charts, network graphs, and timeline views. Informed by 100 days of Vipassana practice and deep study of contemplative and relational psychology traditions.
A platform at the intersection of clinical psychology, agentic AI, and contemplative practice — genuinely differentiated in a crowded market. Positioned as infrastructure for consultants, HR professionals, and mediators who need something that produces real evidence, not generic scores. ~95% complete, 444 TypeScript files. A startup co-founded with Ameet Mehta.
Global situation awareness requires simultaneous tracking of financial markets, geopolitical developments, live broadcast media, and CCTV infrastructure — all in one view. Existing tools are either paywalled intelligence platforms (Bloomberg-level) or fragmented open-source feeds with no coherent interface.
A single-page intelligence dashboard aggregating live crypto and commodity markets (BTC, ETH, Gold, Crude, DXY), a prioritised news feed with conflict classification tags (strike / nuclear / naval / diplo / casualty), simultaneous live broadcast streams from Al Jazeera, Euronews and Al Arabiya, and a regionally-tabbed CCTV network spanning Middle East, Europe, Americas, Asia-Pacific and Space.
A fully functional open-access intelligence dashboard built in pure JavaScript — demonstrating the capability to rapidly prototype complex, data-dense interfaces. Available live as a public demo and a showcase of what's possible with fast, lean front-end development without heavy frameworks.
No agencies, no account managers. You write directly to me — Charlie — and I respond within 48 hours. Tell me what you're building, where you're stuck, or what you're trying to create. Even if you're not sure exactly what you need yet, that's fine — the conversation itself usually clarifies it.