Hi, I'm Marc Sloan's Blog

I’m a product manager, entrepreneur, academic, developer and designer, ruminating on AI and the future of the internet. I created a technology called Scout that offers real-time virtual assistance while browsing online. You can see a demo of it in action by visiting my personal website.

To build it I spent 4 years developing, fundraising, hiring, firing, testing and designing. I use this blog to write about what went right and what went wrong, and what I learned from it. So far, I've written about:

• A speculative vision for a conversational web browser that chats to you and assists you while you're online
• A guide for winning an Innovate UK grant
• 8 Tips for Getting Started with Entrepreneur First
• The concept of the web browser acting as a GPS for the web
• Life after the search engine
• My PhD thesis on Dynamic Information Retrieval

The concept sprung from my 5 years of research into dynamic information retrieval at UCL and Microsoft Research, and I started working on it with Andrew O’Harney who I met on Entrepreneur First. You should also check him out too, he’s great.

If you have any questions, or any suggestions for what you'd like to see me write about, please let me know in the comments below.