Welcome to The InfraTech Stack
A publication about roads, rail, utilities and buildings in the age of AI.
Welcome to The InfraTech Stack
If you have found your way here — welcome.
This publication sits alongside my book, The InfraTech Stack. But it is not simply a place to talk about the book. It is really a place to explore the wider world around it: the shift taking place across roads, rail, utilities, buildings and estates as infrastructure becomes more digital, more observable and more understandable.
I have spent years working around infrastructure, enterprise software, digital workflows and operational change. Long before “InfraTech” began to sound like a category, I was involved in the earlier machine-to-machine world when connected devices and operational signals first began to hint at what this space might become. Since then, I have built and worked on platforms operating at different layers of what I now think of as the stack.
So this publication comes from a place of both interest and experience.
The basic idea behind The InfraTech Stack is fairly simple.
Across infrastructure, more of the physical world is starting to speak. More signals can be captured. More activity can be recorded. More conditions can be surfaced. But that does not automatically create understanding. It does not automatically create trust, prioritisation or better decisions. And it certainly does not guarantee that AI will be useful simply because it has arrived.
That gap is what interests me.
What has to be in place before infrastructure becomes not just more digital but more legible, more usable and more capable of supporting better action?
What you will find here
The first posts here are the Foundation Series. They are the place to start.
They cover what InfraTech means, why the growing visibility of the physical world matters, what the stack actually is, why applications are not enough, what stronger foundations make possible, why the Five Laws matter and why AI makes stronger infrastructure foundations more important, not less.
From there, the publication will broaden out.
Some posts will be practical and field-led: better signals, stronger questions, more useful workflows and the kinds of changes that quietly alter what an organisation is able to see and do.
Some will focus more on what the stack unlocks at an operational, strategic and leadership level: resilience, carbon, reporting, prioritisation, investment confidence and what a stronger environment makes possible.
And some later on will become more diagnostic: how to recognise a weak stack, where the foundations are thin and what to fix first.
This publication is for people working in and around infrastructure who are trying to make sense of a more digital, more instrumented and more demanding world: operators, engineers, asset leaders, digital and transformation teams, consultants, advisers and decision-makers who need better ways of seeing what is happening and deciding what to do next.
The tone here will be serious, practical and exploratory.
There is already plenty of noise around digital transformation, dashboards and AI. I am less interested in adding to that than in getting a little closer to what is actually going on underneath it.
Where to start
If that sounds like your kind of territory, you are in the right place.
Welcome to The InfraTech Stack.