founder record / selected Countercult proof
A public record of the cultural infrastructure I am building around culture, local intelligence, paid opportunity and economic development.
Countercult is not a side project or a set of disconnected cultural services. It is the cultural infrastructure I founded to make existing culture easier to discover, understand, work with and connect to paid opportunity. These cases show different parts of that public model.
The Studios manifesto sets out the commercial delivery arm: research, cultural mapping, curation, creative strategy, production, visitor experiences and place partnerships for organisations that need to work with culture responsibly. It is the route from cultural intelligence to a real brief and a paid outcome.
The Klunkerkranich record shows Countercult working with a cultural venue through paid cultural curation. The important proof is the shape of the work: local knowledge, relevant people, programme thinking and a relationship that treats cultural context as part of the brief rather than decoration.
The Anceu case study shows the place and rural culture side of the infrastructure. Countercult worked with Rural Hackers, Anceu Coliving and local partners on a rural cultural archive and place pilot connecting local knowledge, participation, tourism and a future public-funding route.
The Local Culture Fund record shows the demand-side question: how can business activity create paid work for local creative people and stronger local culture rather than only buying more advertising? The Martha’s Burgers pilot is published as evidence of that mechanism, not as a claim of universal results.
The public network, Studios, Fund and place work are connected layers. The ambition is to build a repeatable route from discovery to brief, commission, partnership, payment and outcome while protecting consent, attribution, privacy and local value.
This is also the clearest record of my founder-side product building, operating judgment and cross-functional leadership. I built this infrastructure across technology, editorial, research, cultural production, partnerships, marketing and commercial development.
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