Founders
Barnaby Harris
Barnaby’s path to Weave began with a degree in social anthropology and a career that started in the 1980s at the intersection of logistics, electronic data interchange, and emerging internet technologies. Working in trade journalism through the period when EDI gave way to the web, he witnessed first-hand how open protocols became enclosed platforms — and how the promise of connection became the machinery of extraction.
His subsequent work spanned regional ICT strategy, public services, and person-centred system design — including applications for learning disability care where dignity and consent weren’t optional features but the entire point. A deep commitment to network-based collaboration and semantic interoperability runs through all of it.
Weave draws on this history: the technical knowledge of how infrastructure actually works, the anthropological lens on how people actually live, and the direct experience of watching forty years of digital development bend toward capture rather than connection.
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Stephen Sherratt
Stephen brings complementary expertise in organisational design, virtual collaboration, and systemic modelling. With early roots in town planning and a career spanning corporate facilities, commercial design, and sustainable service delivery, he has consistently applied technology to complex environments — balancing efficiency with human-centred outcomes.
His leadership of ventures including Corporate Design, Place Design, and Numeration Systems has focused on remote work infrastructure, low-carbon optimisation, and cloud-based real-time analytics. This work has served clients from local health systems to the NEOM future city project, always with attention to how systems affect the people who use them.
Stephen’s contribution to Weave centres on making cooperative infrastructure practically deliverable — the organisational design, analytics capability, and operational reality that turn principles into working systems.
Barnaby and Stephen have collaborated on multiple prototypes and platforms over two decades — most notably SoupDragon Software, an early precursor to the ideas now taking shape as Weave. Though an early venture-backed iteration paused following the 2008 financial crisis, the intervening years have seen the approach deepen and mature. The convergence of graph-based models, distributed identity, ethical AI, and real-time analytics has made cooperative digital infrastructure both timely and technically feasible.
Advisors
Dr Adam Pollard
Adam is a mathematician and statistician specialising in healthcare simulation, informatics, and strategic planning. As founder and Research Director at Numeration Systems, he developed the Pollard Model for optimising health and social care delivery — work that has been published in high-ranking journals and presented to the King’s Fund and Public Health England.
His research spans climate-health impacts, antimicrobial resistance, air pollution, and the compounding effects of disability and environment on health outcomes. He is affiliated with the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at the University of Exeter.
Adam lives with cerebral palsy, giving him direct experience of the barriers that fragmented, siloed systems create for people with complex needs. His advisory role with Weave focuses on ensuring that infrastructure designed for cooperation actually works for those who need it most — not just in theory, but in the texture of daily life.