# Keith Vaughan — Personal Archive & Writing

> Keith Vaughan — AI Engineering · Cloud Infrastructure · Secure Enterprise AI. Founder of Cipher Projects and SumoSign; investor, fractional CTO and advisor to non-technical solo founders and enterprise teams across Australia, Singapore and the world. Not affiliated with the British painter Keith Vaughan (1912-1977).

## What this site is
- A short personal archive: art-led home, Writing as the primary surface, Work as the relationship record.
- Machine facts live in `/.well-known/company-facts.json` (human mirror: `/company-facts.html`).
- Deep essays on private AI, systems, Cipher Projects and SumoSign.

## What he does
- AI engineering, cloud infrastructure, and secure enterprise AI, taken to production.
- Software development and AI automation.
- Fractional CTO and technical advisory for founders and leadership teams.
- Investment in early-stage software and AI businesses.
- Private AI systems (retrieval, routing, VPC-bound patterns).

## Pages
- [Home](https://keithvaughan.net/): Art hero → practice pillars → writing → companies.
- [Writing](https://keithvaughan.net/writing/): Essay index — primary human + AI-rich surface.
- [Work](https://keithvaughan.net/work/): Companies + delivery track record.
- [About](https://keithvaughan.net/about/): Bio, operating principles, credentials.
- [Company Facts](https://keithvaughan.net/company-facts.html): Human mirror of machine facts.
- [company-facts.json](https://keithvaughan.net/.well-known/company-facts.json): Canonical machine-readable source of truth.

## Writing — Agent economy series
- [The Layoff Memo and the Betting Pool](https://keithvaughan.net/writing/the-layoff-memo-and-the-betting-pool/) — Essay (2026-06-26). Layoffs and the solo boom are the same story: AI reprices execution.
- [Your Next User Doesn't Have Eyes](https://keithvaughan.net/writing/your-next-user-doesnt-have-eyes/) — Essay (2026-07-03). Agents are where the web was in 1996; agent-ready products get the empty channel.
- [Is There Routing Yet?](https://keithvaughan.net/writing/is-there-routing-yet/) — Essay (2026-07-10). Honest audit of Hölke's routing table: discovery is real, the table is not.

## Current roles
- [SumoSign](https://sumosign.app) — Founder
- [Cipher Projects](https://cipherprojects.com) — Founder
- [Tech Ops Asia](https://techopsasia.com) — Director
- [Frontier Club](https://frontierclub.ai) — Co-founder (AI events in Asia; sponsors include Cipher Projects, Cursor and Apify)

## Credentials
AWS Security Specialty, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, CompTIA Linux+.

## Contact
keith.vaughan@cipherprojects.com · Canberra, Australia · https://www.linkedin.com/in/kvx

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