Founders
Fast-growth, tech-enabled companies
Twelve companies built across three continents. Advice, sweat equity or IP where it fits — not generic consulting.
Which problem, once solved, opens your next phase of growth?
Forty years building, backing and advising businesses, almost all without AI in the room. The last few have been my most productive. Not because AI replaced my judgement, but because it removed the friction around it.
Tell me what you're facingInvestors & venture builders
Building an acquisition vehicle — profitable companies, upgraded with AI and automation, pivoted toward where the market is moving next. Wavefront is the intelligence behind it.
Corporations
Advisory on where decision authority should sit between people, process and AI — not implementation, not training.
Government & institutions
Advised at national security, judiciary, law enforcement and federal government level. Repeat work at international central-banking events, including meetings with the Swiss National Bank and the Bank for International Settlements.
Speaker & advisor:
- Google Campus
- Microsoft
- Imperial College London
- Virgin
- Sky News
- Disrupts Magazine (expert contributor)
Want to know who you'd be talking to?
Where it started
From the Australian outback to a business sold at nineteen, and a company I built and lost.
Read where it started →Boards and investments
Former chair of Gateway2enterprise. Chief Strategy and Investment Officer at Digital Currency Network. Investor and adviser to eleven early-stage companies.
See the boards and investments →Books & series
The Imagination Economy series — The Imagination Economy, Mobilism by Matt Black, and Answer Rich, Question Poor.
The Imagination Economy
Matt Black — entrepreneur, independent researcher and author.
How To Act Powerfully When Certainty Disappears
A field guide for building and deciding when AI, abundance, and speed change what counts as a good move — and certainty never fully arrives.
Status: live
Mobilism
Matt Black — entrepreneur, independent researcher and author.
The Hidden Architecture of Action Under Uncertainty
Movement under changing conditions — how to act when the map shifts faster than your plan.
Status: live
Answer Rich, Question Poor
Matt Black — entrepreneur, independent researcher and author.
A Field Guide to thriving in an Answer-Rich World
What happens when answers become abundant and the quality of questions becomes the real advantage — written for young people finding their footing in an answer-rich world.
Status: Launching shortly
Also by Matt Black
The Little Black Book for Entrepreneurs
Matt Black — entrepreneur, independent researcher and author.
2015, 2nd edition 2019
Published 2015, 2nd edition 2019.
Status: Available
How to Change the World
Matt Black, entrepreneur, independent researcher and author.
(and other handy tips)
A pocket guide for the stuck moments in ordinary life: when to try something small, when to commit, and how to tell which one you're facing.
Status: Release Q4 2026
What's the missing piece?
I'm not looking for more companies to start. I'm looking for people already running something that works, where the missing piece isn't effort. What I bring is forty years of pattern recognition, a network built over three decades, and a body of intellectual property I would rather see used than filed. If that's you, tell me what the missing piece is.
Occasional essays
On decisions, investing, and what changes as intelligence becomes abundant. No spam.
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