I've taught the lesson, written the scheme, and led the rollout.
I'm Simon Bond. I work at the join between maths, edtech and AI — because I've actually stood in each of those rooms, not just talked about them. The bridge isn't a pitch; it's the path I took.
The bridge is lived, not claimed.
Four stages, one direction of travel — toward the place where maths, technology and policy actually meet.
The classroom
Where it countsI started by teaching maths, full-time, for years — first-class degree, QTS, and the daily work of making abstract ideas land for thirty different minds at once. Everything since is built on that.
Curriculum
Designing the mathsI moved into designing the maths itself: schemes of learning and resources, obsessing over sequence and representation so that other teachers could pick them up and teach well.
National edtech
How products really get madeThen to leading education technology at national scale — learning how products are actually built, sold and adopted, and how often the classroom gets left out of the room where that happens.
AI & thought leadership
Helping the sector argue betterNow I work at the front of the AI conversation in education: charters, policy and CPD — plus a podcast built to make the sector argue better about what's genuinely coming.
What you're really hiring.
Integrity
I'll tell you the honest next step — even when it's “you don't actually need me for this.” Trust is the whole product here.
Resilience
Curriculum projects and national rollouts rarely go to plan. Staying genuinely useful when they wobble is most of the job.
Calm under pressure
Leaders don't need more panic about AI. They need someone steady enough to make it boring — in the best possible way.
Technology should make great teaching easier to do — and the only people who can tell whether it does are the ones still teaching.
That belief is why I sit between the classroom and the companies building for it — and why I'd rather have an honest argument than a comfortable consensus.
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