Menu

CO-FOUNDER, MELINK.AI · HOST, WE ARE STILL HUMAN

Software should disappear. People shouldn’t.

Entrepreneur. Technologist. Strategist. Builder. I have worked in risk, agriculture, photography, education and software — and now work across voice, identity and AI security, on technology that keeps the human in control. I host We Are Still Human.

See the work Listen to the podcast

  • 14 years building
  • 6 rules written
  • 97 episodes
Black-and-white close-up portrait of Phillip Kemp against a near-black background.

01 — What I’ve built

I priced risk before I wrote software.

Phillip Kemp, seated in a chair with his hand to his chin, in an olive blazer and white T-shirt.

Five years pricing agricultural and financial risk at KEMPRO Brokers — futures, options, hedging. Ten years as a wedding photographer. Both taught me to read what is actually there.

Employee #3 at Mwabu, a UK edtech startup, building tablet-based learning and educational games. Then seven years of frontend architecture at BMW’s IT Hub.

In 2024 I started building my own. meLink has one rule: the user leads, the technology follows. Then came We Are Still Human and the six written rules.

Read the long version

02 — What I believe

Technology should serve humanity, not rule it.

  • Strength under control.

    The philosophy of meekness: power held in check by discipline. It is how I try to lead, and how I want software to behave.

  • Truth before comfort.

    Honesty, integrity, and the willingness to stand for what is right when the room would rather move on.

  • The build is the test.

    A position that has not met a real user is a preference; I ship, watch what breaks, and keep what holds.

Read the six rules

03 — What I’m exploring

The through-line is human identity and autonomy.

Areas of work, research and development — not a list of things I claim to have mastered.

  • Voice interfaces

    Building and testing conversational systems, and asking what a voiceprint should never be allowed to become.

  • Digital identity

    Identity, voiceprints and Proof of Human: proving a property without handing over the person.

  • AI security

    Safeguards, orchestration and safe data management for systems that act on someone’s behalf.

  • Memory and models

    Memory Block development, and deliberate experiments with unrestrained models to find where the guardrails actually are.

See what I’m exploring

04 — What I’ve shipped

Proof, not adjectives.

All three, on one page

05 — The record

  1. EP 097

    Who Is Logged In as You

    04 Nov 2026

    08:49

  2. EP 096

    Nobody Has Ever Been Forgiven by a Database

    03 Nov 2026

    06:15

  3. EP 095

    The Canvas Was Never the Process

    01 Nov 2026

    07:21

Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

The invitation

If you’re building technology that protects people, need a leader who will hold that line, or heard an episode that stuck — write to me.

[email protected]

One conversation, no deck.