Curriculum vitae

Paul Boucherat

Founder of BOUCH, an autonomous agent workforce. I build and run agents that do real work for weeks, not minutes: a live fleet of UK-data MCP servers and a self-improving agent factory. Operations background, self-taught builder. I ship production systems that run unattended, not demos.

What I've built

UK Legal MCP

live

Case law · legislation · Hansard · votes · HMRC · OSCOLA

An agent's grounding for UK legal research: court judgments from Find Case Law, legislation with in-force status, Hansard debates, Commons and Lords division votes, HMRC guidance, and OSCOLA citation parsing — one endpoint, every answer traced to a primary source with citation-grade metadata.

GitHubPyPI

UK Due Diligence MCP

live

Companies House · Charity Commission · Land Registry · Gazette · VAT · sanctions

Automated diligence over official UK registers: Companies House profiles, officers and beneficial ownership, the Charity Commission, Land Registry titles, Gazette insolvency notices, and VAT validation — plus screening of companies, officers and PSCs against the UK, US, EU and UN sanctions lists.

GitHubPyPI

UK Property MCP

live

Land Registry · EPC · market data · SDLT · ownership

Property intelligence for an agent: Land Registry sold prices and title ownership, EPC energy performance, market comparables, and stamp duty calculation — grounded in registered transactions, not estimates.

GitHubPyPI

Ledgerhall

live

One endpoint across four UK registers

The aggregator: one call fans out across Companies House, the Charity Commission, the Land Registry, and the Gazette, and returns a consolidated view of a UK company. The raw registers stay underneath; the agent does the work.

GitHubPyPI

GOV.UK MCP

live

Official guidance · content · postcode lookup

Official government guidance on tap: GOV.UK search and content retrieval, and postcode-to-local-authority resolution — sourced directly from GOV.UK APIs.

GitHubPyPI

WhatDoTheyKnow MCP

live

UK Freedom of Information requests

The UK's public Freedom of Information archive, made searchable for agents: FOI requests, public authorities, and disclosed responses — grounding research in what is already on the public record.

GitHubPyPI

UK Procurement MCP

early

Live tenders · contracts · renewal radar

UK public procurement over open contracting data: live tenders and awarded contracts, a renewal radar that flags contracts coming up for re-tender, and buyer and supplier intelligence. Early — deployed and running.

PyP6Xer MCP

published

Primavera P6 schedule analysis

Domain breadth beyond public data: Primavera P6 schedule analysis — critical path, earned value, float distribution, resource utilisation, and schedule-quality scoring — validated on a live 6,000-activity railway programme. The method holds in any domain with a typed core.

GitHubPyPI

Three patterns

01

The Fleet

A live fleet of MCP servers wired into UK public data: companies, courts, land, procurement, tax, FOI. Deployed, open source, running unattended. Every answer traces to a real register or record — grounded, not guessed.

02

The Agent Factory

A self-improving agent that builds and improves the fleet autonomously. It writes its own backlog, works it on a schedule, and opens pull requests a human merges. Long-horizon and governed: it holds the thread across sessions and stops at the approval gate.

03

Data Platform to Product

A repeatable method: unify fragmented UK registers into a typed core, expose it through one grounded endpoint, then put an agent on top. One call returns the whole picture — the raw sources stay underneath, the agent does the work.

Experience

Founder BOUCH — bouch.dev

2023 – Present

Nottingham, UK

Building and running BOUCH, an autonomous agent workforce. A live fleet of UK public-data agents (companies, courts, land, procurement, FOI), deployed and published open source, plus an agent that builds and improves the fleet autonomously behind human approval gates. Long-horizon, governed, grounded: agents that hold the thread and finish the work.

Career break Caregiving, property, retraining

2016 – 2023

Nottingham, UK

Family caregiving, property investment and management, returning through self-directed software and AI engineering from late 2022.

Desktop Product Manager Stone Computers

2013 – 2016

Staffordshire, UK

Owned the desktop product line: £50m gross profit target, 80k annual units. Led roadmap and supplier decisions across university, NHS, and public-sector contracts. Bridge between sales, purchasing, R&D, and customer.

Service Buyer Stone Computers

2012 – 2013

Staffordshire, UK

Reduced Jobs on Hold from 13% to 2.5%. Analysed £1.8m service stock, identified 51% obsolete, cut to £1m.

Skills

Languages
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, SPARQL
AI
Claude API, OpenAI Agents SDK, PydanticAI, MCP servers, Claude Code skills, structured outputs
Backend
FastAPI, Pydantic, Next.js, React, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Eleventy
Deployment
Fly.io, Docker, Stripe, Cloudflare Pages, PyPI, GitHub, Prometheus

Credentials

Claude Certified Architect – Foundations badge

Claude Certified Architect — Foundations

issued by Anthropic · verified on Credly ↗

Education

BA (Hons) Business Management and Operations — 2:1

Nottingham Trent University

2008 – 2012