# Patrick Colm Audley *Hacker · Full-Spectrum Technologist · Polymath* A seasoned technologist with thirty years of international startup experience and a broad palette of scientific, business and computing skills. I work the long boundary between deep technical research and pragmatic commercial execution — whichever side a problem needs. Currently I split my time between [Blackcat Informatics® Inc.](https://blackcatinformatics.ca/) — the consultancy I've run since 1994 — and applied research at the intersection of Topological Data Analysis, manifold learning, and large-language-model semantics. The through-line across more than thirty years has been the same: find elegant solutions to complex technical problems, exploit problem isomorphisms, and ship code that does what it says on the tin. Earlier in my career I was instrumental to numerous tech launches, acquisitions, pivots, and exits across telephony, high-performance computing, crowdsourcing, bioinformatics, and security — over twenty-five startup launches across the years. I've moved high-throughput systems to the cloud (a social platform supporting massive concurrent counts in the early 2010s, scientific analysis pipelines for genetics and satellite imagery, multi-continent high-resiliency financial deployments) and learned, every time, that minimum-footprint systems built on open-source primitives outlast the elaborately-architected ones. I'm an active member of the local Vancouver and Alberta startup and development communities and enjoy fostering new talent. Dangle a good problem in front of me, tempt me with a cup of coffee, and I'll yak your ear off on just about any topic. Spouse: Erin Audley. ## Currently - **Helping organisations shape their AI and large-data strategies** through the current technology inflection — not the buzzword version, the version where you have to actually decide what to build, what to wait on, and what to ignore. - **Researching emergent semantic-graph relations** in high-order semantic vector spaces — hyper-dimensional topological analysis using complex continuations and homomorphisms applied to high-dimensional embeddings, with fusions of Quantum Chromodynamics and Hamiltonian dynamics, to surface structural relations that aren't explicit in the source corpus. - **Building [coding-ethos](https://github.com/paudley/coding-ethos) ** — policy-as-code for AI coding agents. Model Context Protocol server, Common Expression Language policies, git hooks, Static Analysis Results Interchange Format, all the static-analysis guardrails. The premise: agents should not be able to ship code that violates your team's standards, even if you're not in the loop. - **Maintaining a handful of small libraries** — the structured-error library [e](https://github.com/paudley/e) and a fast C++ [LRU cache](https://github.com/paudley/lru_cache) first written in 2004 and still useful. Earlier Python tooling (*pyqa_lint*, *git-ai-reporter*) has been folded into [coding-ethos](https://github.com/paudley/coding-ethos). ## Open Source - **[gmeow](https://github.com/paudley/gmeow)** (Python) — Local Gmail intelligence for agents and automation. Loopback REST + MCP over Gmail, backed by PostgreSQL, semantic search, attachment sidecars, local object storage, and a knowledge graph. Built for trusted single-user local systems rather than hosted mailbox ingestion. - **[gmeow-ontology](https://github.com/Blackcat-Informatics/gmeow-ontology)** (Python) — GMEOW — the Global Metadata and Entity Ontology for the Web. A reasoning-centric, OWL 2 DL, upper-ontology-grounded super-vocabulary for digital existence, scientific observation, measurement, location, identity, rights, provenance, contacts and documents. Version 0.1.0 covers 37 modelled, aligned and reasoned modules; projects down to schema.org, FOAF, GeoSPARQL, vCard, iCalendar, OWL-Time, ODRL, SPDX, Dublin Core Terms, OntoLex-Lemon, Web Annotation and related consumer vocabularies; and aligns by reference to Wikidata, PROV-O, ORG, BFO, QUDT, SOSA/SSN, FALDO, IVOA, CIDOC-CRM and more. - **[coding-ethos](https://github.com/paudley/coding-ethos)** (Go) — Policy-as-code enforcement for AI coding agents. MCP server + CEL policies + git hooks + SARIF + static-analysis guardrails so an autonomous agent can't ship code that fails your team's standards. - **[ai-notes](https://github.com/paudley/ai-notes)** (Shell) — Working notebook for local-model experimentation, ML papers worth tracking, and small reusable bits of inference plumbing. Public so the notes serve as their own changelog. - **[nonlinear-semantic-graphs](https://github.com/paudley/nonlinear-semantic-graphs)** (Python) — Discovering emergent knowledge-graph relations in high-order semantic vector spaces — manifold learning + spectral analysis applied to LLM embeddings to surface relations that aren't explicit in the source corpus. - **[lru_cache](https://github.com/paudley/lru_cache)** (C++) — Fast, thread-safe Least-Recently-Used cache as a C++ template, with a comprehensive unit-test suite. First written in 2004 and still useful — the kind of small library that just needs to work. ## Publications - **Emergent Knowledge Graphs from High-Order Semantic Spaces** (2025-10-01). Working paper · Blackcat Informatics Inc. (2025). - **Evaluating Usability and Security with Users of All Ages** (2007-04-30). CHI 2007 — Workshop on Usability and Security. - **OXBench: A benchmark for evaluation of protein multiple sequence alignment accuracy** (2003-10-10). BMC Bioinformatics 4:47 (2003). doi:10.1186/1471-2105-4-47. ## Coverage - **[Cogneto: to identity and beyond!](https://www.infoworld.com/article/2199876/cogneto-to-identity-and-beyond.html)** — InfoWorld, 2007-05-25. InfoWorld article on Cogneto's identity technology; used as third-party support for Patrick Audley's Founder and CTO role at Cogneto Development Inc. Supports: Patrick Audley was Founder and CTO of Cogneto Development Inc. during the 2006-2007 adaptive-authentication period. - **["Powered by Your Mind" Academics, Psychology, Technology Drive New Authentication Solution](https://www.cutimes.com/2007/01/16/powered-by-your-mind-academics-psychology-technology-drive-new-authentication-solution/)** — Credit Union Times, 2007-01-16. Credit Union Times article on Cogneto's cognitive-biometric authentication work; used as third-party support for Patrick Audley's Cogneto role and adaptive-authentication work. Supports: Patrick Audley worked on Cogneto's cognitive-biometric and adaptive-authentication technology as Founder and CTO. ## Patents - **Globally Aware Authentication System**. US 2008/0222706 A1, published 2008-09-11. - **System and method for user polling over a network**. US 8,510,385 B2, published 2013-08-13. ## The Arts Outside the technology work, I'm involved in [Odd Numbered Productions](https://oddnumberedproductions.ca), our arts vehicle, where I make work at the intersection of AI, sensor data, and cryptographic art. ## Contact - Email: - Phone: +1 (780) 670-0484 - ENS: `patrickaudley.com` - Ethereum: - GitHub: - GitLab: - LinkedIn: - Crunchbase: - ORCID: - Google Scholar: - X: - Twitter: - YouTube: - Stack Overflow: - PyPI: - Facebook: - Reddit: - Mail care of: Blackcat Informatics® Inc., 112 Westbourne Rd., Spruce Grove, AB, Canada T7X 1R6 --- Copyright © 2003–2026 Patrick Colm Audley. 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