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The book, in a paragraph
orphans.ai is the second book in Doug Scott's April 2026 trilogy on what is shifting under the machines we are building. Where If This Road is a quiet walk for any reader, this book is harder ground, written under Doug's own name for the people who can change the shape of what is being made — technologists, CEOs, investors, and builders. The book argues that AI training is missing the oral-tradition layer of human knowledge: the disposition of grandmothers, carriers, and the people who sit up past midnight with someone else's failing startup. This is a fixable data problem, not a vague values problem. The fix is already held, invisibly, by the people the culture has stopped valuing. The book is a book of scenes — because the argument is inside the scenes.
The author, in a paragraph
Doug Scott spent twenty-five years building and backing technology companies — most recently Redbrain, which he ran until March 2025. He has invested in and advised companies many readers will know. He grew up on the edge of a council estate in North Shields and lives now in Lichfield. orphans.ai is the middle book of a trilogy he wrote in April 2026.
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If the book reached you, and you want to say something: doug [at] orphans [dot] ai