Chat_UP is Unofficial Partner's AI series, created in collaboration with TFG Labs. I co-host with Richard Gillis, picking out the AI stories that matter and bringing them back to the business of sport.
Featured topics: The US government's shutdown of Anthropic's most powerful models for foreign nationals, the Manchester Super Giants' AI-generated kit reveal, and Yann LeCun's case against LLMs.
June 30, 2026
Featured topics: Google I/O and the shift to agents fetching scores and highlights, the rising cost of AI for low-margin sports businesses, and Bryson DeChambeau as the model for the athlete-creator.
June 02, 2026
Here are few projects which I remembered to capture:
Interactive Explainer for Personalisation Platform Architecture
Visualisation focusing on displaying change in a financial context.
Bringing clarity and a little magic to complex banking data.
Highlighting potential issues in a supply chain before they escalate.
A company directory reimagined as a living simulation of autonomous agents.
Visualising interactions during the manufacturing process of a luxury car (favoured by 007).
Short film animations for kids. Probably too violent.
Information Design for an AI Patent
Bringing our blockchain architecture to life, making a complex system easy to explain.
A suite of tools giving insight into QuantumBlack's Data Science process.
Figuring out ways to explore huge hierarchical data structures.
Visualising the spread of a new drug via a national network of Physicians.
Displaying real-time live event streams for Formula One teams and Race Commentators.
Showcasing Google Trends data for the big events which happened during the year
I ate too many kiwis and my appendix exploded. I then went on a journey to make a useable nutrition website.
Displaying Live Events and Google Trends during the FIFA World Cup in Brasil
Pulling in tagged images from twitter to provide ambience for cool kids while they buy expensive trainers.
A competition app to get Apple Store employees moving around more!
A CMS for the fuelband competition app.
Dictate what you want to do, and this app will provide suggestions, and directions. A breakthrough, at the time.
Activity monitors turned into a live race track to spice up corporate event days.
Find the best X in Y. Give awards with cute badges. One of the first apps to harness Instagram location images.
An app to curate stacks of things. I still want this in my life.






















