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I help good technology get adopted.
By developers. By teams. By organisations.

Suzanne Daniels

Engineering depth. Developer relations. Go-to-market strategy.
Creator of Agentile, author of Ghost Decisions.
30 years of engineering, strategy, GTM, and strong opinions.

I help engineering leaders make AI adoption work beyond the demo: connecting the platform, the operating model, and the people who need to use it.

Amsterdam, NL · She/Her · 🏂

Or grab the book — Ghost Decisions →

> Your AI is great

“Will putting new machines in your software factory be enough or do you need to change the floorplan?”

What happens after initial adoption. That's the question behind my book, Ghost Decisions →

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Good technology doesn't adopt itself. I connect engineering, product strategy, and developer communities so it gets used, not just launched. I've built developer relations from zero, shaped developer experience, and brought what developers need back into product decisions.

AI makes that work more urgent. Buying the tools is the easy part. I help leaders change the platforms, decision-making, and ways of working around them.

30 years in the trenches across government, telecom, financial services, ISVs, and security. Founded Great Success for interim IT leadership. Created the Agentile operating model because agile assumed all work is done by humans — and that assumption broke. Wrote the book on it: Ghost Decisions (2026).

Developer Relations · Developer Experience · Open Source · Platform Engineering · AI Adoption

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> what_i_do

Strong opinions, working code.

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Speaking & Keynotes

Conferences, leadership offsites, engineering teams. I talk about what happens when AI stops being a tool and starts being a teammate — and what your org needs to survive that shift.

AgentilePlatform EngineeringMulti-Agent Orchestration
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Developer Relations & Community

Founding and scaling developer communities — open source, developer experience, and evangelism — then turning that into real adoption. I've built DevRel from zero and run the feedback loop back into product.

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Technical Advisory

I advise CTOs and engineering leaders on AI adoption, developer experience, and platform engineering strategy. Not slideware — real decisions with real trade-offs.

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Great Success →
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Building Things

From murder mystery games with lying AI agents to platform engineering frameworks — I ship code, not just opinions. If it can be built, I've probably tried.

Open SourceAI GamesDeveloper Tools
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Writing & Ideas

The Engineering Beyond Agile essays, Ghost Decisions, and the Agentile operating model. One question: if humans can't be in every loop, what structure does speed need?

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Enterprise AI Adoption

Getting frontier AI tooling adopted inside large, regulated European organisations — where the hard part isn't the model, it's the governance, the engineering culture, and the humans. I run that end to end.

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> speaking

On stage.

Available for conferences, keynotes, leadership offsites, and engineering teams. Real-world stories. Zero hand-waving.

Talks and speaker kit →

AI-era operating models. Platform engineering. Multi-agent orchestration, demonstrated with nine suspects who lie for a living. Talk abstracts, past events, and booking details are in the speaker kit.

Ghost Decisions — book cover

> book

Ghost Decisions

Your agents ship while you sleep. Who owns the decisions they make?

The book on accountability, architecture, and operating models for teams where AI does real work.

About the book and where to buy it →