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Children raise five sense icons. Only the eye and half the ear connect to a computer screen. Smell, touch and taste are marked not measured.

Children can still beat AI at four of the five senses

Five senses AI: machines now see and hear, but none can smell, touch or taste. What ARC-AGI-3 and ARIA reveal about the gap between AI and superintelligence.

Simon Rasalingham

3 days ago8 min read

Flat vector illustration: a man sees a red scar in a mirror, walks away unmarked, then reads a chest X-ray with a larger AI outline of himself.

At 28 I Was Made Redundant in the Last Technology Boom

Redundancy feels like a permanent scar. Nobody else can see it. And in our own study, the weakest radiologist combined with AI beat the strongest working alone.

Simon Rasalingham

Oct 145 min read

Flat vector illustration: a Nighthawk engine’s intake capped at a private hospital wall, beside a wall of pound-sign bricks partly fallen.

Strategic Investor or Venture Capital: the Right Deal for the Wrong Reasons

Unsolicited VC calls told me the business was scaling. The deal we actually took was from a hospital network, and the engine had nothing to run on.

Simon Rasalingham

Oct 129 min read

"Why set up a company in Britain?" Illustration of a football pitch split by a chasm labeled "the valley of death," with a team ("we build the best teams in the world") lined up at one end. A bridge made of UK R&D funding mechanisms — paid monthly against payroll, 43.5% refundable, grants against the plan, state fund no interest, refund eighteen months later — spans the gap toward a goal captioned "an exit worth reaching." A red arrow labeled "sold halfway across" cuts across the bridge partway over, and a spirit level on the near side reads "level the pitch." Scale figures at bottom read "1 team across, $1bn / 100 teams, $100bn / 1,000 teams, $1 trillion," with captions "science works" and "pays for itself" near the chasm.

The Trillion Dollar Question in This UK Budget.

Why Set Up a Company in Britain? Two asks from a British entrepreneur who wants to. Neither requires rejoining the EU, neither is a subsidy. Author: Simon Rasalingham, 2026 Foreword A founder starting a frontier life sciences AI technology company today has no rational reason to do it in Britain. I am asking for two changes in this Budget, neither of which requires us to rejoin the EU. The prize for getting it right is a trillion dollars of economic impact. I have been involv

Simon Rasalingham

Sep 3012 min read

“A name is the mission, compressed.” A pint-pouring illustration (glass tilted, head right, pipes clean) beside critiques of four company names: Synbiotix (“names a fusion, the X was for tech”), Medica (“sounds permanent”), behold.ai (“names the feeling”) and red dot (“their word, not ours: the film is gone, the name isn’t”), concluding “a name chosen for the right job outlives the people who chose it.”

What's in a Name? Your Company's Purpose and Identity Builds a Brand

How to Build a Start-up, Part 5, Author: Simon Rasalingham, 2026 Most company names get decided in a pub. My first permanent job after university was at Guinness, surrounded by some of the best brand people in the world, working on something older than the United States of America. Guinness was created in 1759 and is one of the oldest and most recognised brands in the world. The purpose and identity of Guinness was drilled into every single employee, from the person installi

Simon Rasalingham

Sep 275 min read

"Different thinkers notice what others walk past." Diagram of many parallel lines converging into a tangled knot (an overlooked hard problem), branching through people who feel the same pain, and re-emerging as a market others walked past, captioned "Start with one real conversation."

Neurodivergent and Entrepreneurial Why Different Thinkers Build Great Businesses

How to Build a Start-up, Part 2, Author: Simon Rasalingham, 2026 I have always been a curious person, sometimes too curious. I remember walking into a server room at an NHS hospital just as I was starting MEDICA. A wall of servers, humming. I asked the IT manager how much it had cost. "Two million pounds," he said proudly. I had just come from Guinness, where I had built out the whole technology infrastructure on the latest Windows NT. I knew roughly what that capacity cost a

Simon Rasalingham

Sep 144 min read