Luke F. Walton is the founder and CEO of Surmado, a company building managed AI systems for small businesses.
His work centers on one idea: AI execution should stay inside authored human judgment. At Surmado that takes shape as Scout, an AI agent small businesses hire to audit, rebuild, host, and keep improving their web presence, and as Surmado Sites, the company's flagship: a website that maintains itself rather than one the owner has to manage. Small businesses do not need another dashboard, and a generic agent that acts without standards is little better. They need taste and standards encoded into systems an AI can execute against, with the result kept legible and answerable.
He also writes on responsibility in AI systems, and on the difference between controlling an automated decision and authoring it. As Scoobert Doobert he records music and runs Love Music More, a newsletter and podcast on the craft, philosophy, and history of music.
- Surmado
- Managed AI for small business; Scout, the agent, and Surmado Sites, the flagship.
- The Decision No One Authored (preprint)
- On the gap between controlling an AI-shaped decision and authoring it, and who stays answerable for what a machine helps decide. PDF·Markdown
- Scoobert Doobert
- Recorded music; signed to Beformer Records, with CHAI credits on Sub Pop and Sony Music Japan.
- Love Music More
- A newsletter and podcast on the craft, philosophy, and history of music.
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