Matt Stockton

Founder, Lode Systems | Authority systems for enterprise AI | Authority before automation

United Kingdom

About

Through Lode Systems, I build AI control infrastructure for organisations that need authority to keep pace with automation. Lode OS operates across three layers — authority, execution, and agents - sitting beneath the AI tools an organisation deploys so control is encoded, not retrofitted. Background in capital project delivery under JCT and NEC. That’s where the thinking came from. Structural clarity before scale. Authority before automation. Alongside Lode, I deliver capital projects as a PM consultant for Pick Everard.

Experience

  • Founder at Lode Systems
    Feb 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    I’m building Lode: authority systems for enterprise AI. Lode deploys AI, including agentic AI into real organisational work, through authority systems. Every action is governed at the moment of decision: approvals, thresholds, escalation, accountability, built into the deployment rather than bolted on after. The bet: as agentic AI moves from experiment to execution, the organisations that win are the ones that can actually deploy it. That means AI that’s trustworthy by design, not by hope — especially in regulated sectors (FCA, healthcare, EU AI Act-exposed) and sensitive operational environments (public sector, PMO, procurement). If you’re thinking about deploying AI into work that matters, or governing AI that’s already there - I’d like to talk.

  • Project Manager at Pick Everard
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Senior Technical Advisor at Mott MacDonald
    Sep 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Design Manager at VINCI Construction UK
    Mar 2018 - May 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos