James Reed.

Founded WYRM and moved to it full time in June 2026. The company builds agentic software for regulated industries, and the two lines that carry it are WYRM MEP and WYRM Data. The role covers the whole business: technical architecture and roadmap, hiring, pricing and unit economics, contracts, P&L, and client delivery.

WYRM MEP is an on-premise agentic coordinator for building services consultancies. It sits above the existing Revit, AutoCAD, and analysis stack, ingests drawings and models, computes the design from first principles, and writes specifications, schedules, and cited QA back out. Every figure carries a standards citation, a solver provenance, and an audit hash, and no client data leaves the appliance. The engineering centre of it is a cross-discipline impact graph: change a ventilation rate and the platform traces the ripple through plant, cable, and board, recomputing what it can prove and flagging what an engineer needs to revalidate. Underneath sit the calculation engines, rebuilt from the published standards across dynamic thermal, daylight, electrical, and public health, each carrying its own validation ladder against the established tool in that discipline. It is in paid pilot, scoped by deliverable type against a 30% engineer-hour reduction target, with a second client engaged since. Client names are available on request under NDA.

WYRM Data plans, prices, and procures AI infrastructure in one workspace: workload in, rack design out, then a live Revit MEP model generated against manufacturer clearances, with auto-routed pipework and clash detection on the output. Procurement, cyber, legal, and healthcare lines run alongside on the same agent and intelligence stack.

Concurrent consulting role held alongside WYRM. SDE is a Scottish building services practice, and the brief has two halves: streamline and automate how the work gets done, and take the business into England.

On the technical side that means taking the delivery process apart and rebuilding it: standardising calculation and specification workflows, removing the repeated manual steps between design, schedule, and issue, and putting tooling where the engineer hours actually go. On the commercial side it means standing up the English operation, covering market entry, positioning, and the framework and client relationships needed to win work there while the Scottish practice keeps running.

Rebuilt the practice's website on Next.js 15 and Payload CMS, taking it from 6 to 106 indexed pages.

Technical co-founder alongside two business partners. Responsible for platform architecture, AI and automation strategy, the drone and LiDAR surveying pipeline, and the Spec Builder / Compliance engine that productised the JPA automation IP for the wider AEC sector. Set financial and strategic direction including budgeting, cash runway, pricing, and unit economics. Ran investor relations: pitch narrative, data room, technical due diligence preparation, and ongoing reporting. Market strategy, partnership development, engineering hiring, and the technology roadmap also sat here.

Pre-seed engagement ran across MEP consultancies, contractors, and surveying practices ahead of a seed raise, an early signal that the deterministic-spec and BIM-to-compliance approach landed with the sector it was built for. Stepped away in June 2026 to build WYRM full time.

Four-plus years running the practice end-to-end alongside my business partner: bidding, contract negotiation, design assurance, compliance, dispute resolution, and P&L. Co-designed and operationalised the automation programme that underpinned delivery, including a bidirectional AutoCAD–Revit data bridge across 424 C# files and the Spec Builder rule engine. Over the period gross margin moved from 30% to over 70% and the delivery team settled at four engineers sustaining ~£1m turnover. Frameworks delivered for a Tier 1 tech sector client (NDA), Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Defence, Willmott Dixon, LJJ, Fit Out UK, and others.

Worked with the in-house development team and external partners to improve engineer and surveyor workflows. Developed mobile-to-central system compatibility for field engineers, enabling data capture and synchronisation with the firm's central information models. This in turn produced automated EPC estimates, condition reports, and RIBA Stage 2 loading calculations that were transposed to automated plant selection schedules.

Mechanical engineering design across commercial fit-outs and residential developments. Heating, cooling, ventilation, hot and cold water, drainage, and gas systems to UK Building Regulations and CIBSE guidance. Team management and client-facing responsibilities: chaired technical design reviews, coordinated across MEP disciplines and with architects, and mentored junior engineers through to issued drawing stage.

Five and a half years of foundational mechanical design across heating, cooling, ventilation, drainage, and hot/cold water systems. Project mix spanned residential developments, education, healthcare, and mixed-use commercial schemes. Calculations to CIBSE Guide A, ventilation to Part F, energy compliance via SAP and SBEM. Scope grew from junior design tasks into leading project workstreams during the period, including site visits, contractor coordination, and client-facing design reviews.