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Dan started his first company in 2001, making unmanned airships for aerial photography.

Then seventeen years in academic publishing, for major publishers, based in London and in Singapore and travelling widely for the work. Not in one department of it either: editorial, IT and product management. That is where he learned how a decision about software actually gets made inside a large corporation or a university — by several people in several departments, each wanting something different from it.

Then a software company of his own in Singapore, Beagle Innovation, from 2014.

In 2021 he started a building company. Blue Ladder Building grew to around twenty people with five or six jobs running at once — vans, tools, subcontractors, materials, and the paperwork that comes with all of it. He has been the person signing off software for a business like that, and the person who had to make it earn its keep.

Blueworkz Ltd was registered the same year. It builds and runs its own software products, and it builds systems for other companies.