Ben Grime

Ben Grime

AI engineer in Manchester. Below are the things I've built and written.

Latest talk · October 2026 AI and entry-level jobs Altrincham Town Hall. 31 minutes, slides in sync.

The letters spell Wittgenstein: the limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Projects

Stable Future · 2026Open source

Opportunity scanner

Where could AI save time in your organisation? Pick an industry, adjust the roles, and see where staff time goes. An agent maps your own job titles to UK occupations and stops to ask when it isn’t sure.

  • LangGraph
  • MCP
  • evals
  • AWS Lambda
  • Terraform
Stable Future · 2026

AI exposure for every UK job

US research scores AI exposure task by task, but UK jobs are coded differently. I built the bridge between the two and a score for each of 412 UK job groups.

  • Python
  • LLM agents
  • crosswalks
  • pytest
Waterman Group · 2025–26

Environmental summaries, drafted in Teams

Consultants drop a chapter into a Teams chat. The bot finds similar past chapters and drafts the plain-English summary in their style. Ten minutes instead of two hours.

  • RAG
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Bot Service
  • TF-IDF
Research note · September 2026

Are AI-exposed jobs losing young UK workers?

A UK test of Stanford’s “canaries in the coal mine” result. The first chart said yes. The checks said not yet.

  • ONS survey data
  • regression
  • bootstrap
Waterman Group · 2025–26

The first AI tools at an engineering firm

An inspection app for 300 staff, training that got two non-technical teams building with AI, and a board demo of what agents could already do.

  • Power Platform
  • training
  • agents
  • board demo
BlueDot Impact grant · in progressIn progress

GPTs are GPTs, re-rated for 2026

The 2023 study that labelled every US job task for AI exposure, run again on all 18,838 tasks in O*NET 31.0 with three of today’s models and an updated rubric.

  • LLM labelling
  • inter-rater agreement
  • OpenRouter
Talk · October 2026

AI and entry-level jobs

A talk at Altrincham Town Hall. The recording plays with the slides in sync.

Essay · February–March 2026 · unfinished

The new era

Notes for a board talk on what language models are, how they learn, and where agents are heading.