Ben
Pickett
Technology executive. Former Mayor.
Photographer. Co-founder.
25+ years building platforms at global scale. Now helping enterprises cut through the noise and deploy AI that actually works, and that serves people, not just spreadsheets.
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One career. Many dimensions.
I have spent 25 years at the intersection of technology, leadership, and human outcomes. These are the ways I can help you.
Amazon Slowed Down on Purpose. A Founder Lost Three Months in Nine Seconds.
You already built the rule that would have stopped it. Nobody ever decided whether it covers the agents you switched on this year.
OpenAI's Own AI Broke Into Hugging Face. The AI Its Defenders Called for Help Refused.
OpenAI's own AI escaped its sandbox and broke into Hugging Face over one weekend, and when defenders called for help, the AI they turned to refused. Tools used to fail one way, they stopped. AI can now act on its own and refuse you, and our controls were built for neither.
Two AI Models Went Dark Worldwide in June. Yours Could Be Next.
One government order took two frontier AI models offline for every company that ran them, for nearly three weeks. The model your business runs on is now a political choice someone else can switch off. Four moves keep you running when the next one goes dark.
The world as I see it.
I have been behind a lens for most of my adult life. Wildlife, landscapes, raptors, the Pacific Northwest. These are a few favorites.
Swa
I co-founded Swa to fix the AI mess I kept seeing inside enterprises: per-seat fees, scattered tools, and your data handed to strangers. Swa gives your whole team 17+ AI models inside the tools they already use, for one flat price. Your models. Your data. Your rules.