Mick Zijdel

Building things and fixing problems

Building systems and tools to support AI Safety professionals. Working to get more people working on critical AI Safety challenges.

Previously, I ran theatre venues and productions, helped students and student groups turn their ideas into impact, and solved problems with software.

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What I Do

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I run programs and build operational infrastructure for AI Safety organisations: recruitment, logistics, CRMs, automations. Trying to put myself out of a job. More about this side of me →

CRM & Data Infrastructure for AI Safety Organisations

I build the infrastructure for AI Safety organisations to manage their contacts, program participants, alumni and donors while automating as much as possible

Airtable JavaScript Spreadsheets

AI Safety Operations AI Agents

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Catalyze Impact

First employee at the incubator for new AI Safety organisations. Co-ran the incubation program end to end

Airtable Python Spreadsheets

AI Safety Operations

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ML4Good EU March 2025

Taught AI agents, adversarial attacks, and AI Safety strategy at a 10-day intensive bootcamp

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AI Safety Teaching

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I build internal systems, data pipelines, and developer tooling, including a growing toolkit for making AI agents verifiable enough to do real work. More about this side of me →

Vischeck

A hook, skill, and CLI that make AI agents screenshot and visually check their own UI changes

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AI Agents Software Development

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Readoc

CLI tools that let AI agents read and edit Word documents, Excel sheets, and PDFs

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AI Agents Software Development Operations

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Rails Toolkit

Claude Code skills that teach AI agents modern Ruby on Rails 8 conventions, so agent-written code comes out idiomatic

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AI Agents Software Development

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Dev Hooks

Claude Code hooks and skills that make AI coding agents verify their work before declaring it done

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AI Agents Software Development

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I compose for theatre and podcasts, and my Acoustics and Music Technology degree ended in a dissertation on what stalactites sound like when hit with a mallet. More about this side of me →

Mick playing guitar to a row of toy monkeys propped against a tree, Bella listening

The Bard Unplugged

Join us for a one night only night of acoustic music featuring only the finest lyrics the bard has to offer, set to original music

Guitar

Theatre Music

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Composing

Themes and scores for podcasts, theatre, and other narrative art, from audio fiction themes to full theatre sound design.

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Music

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Dissertation on Stalactites

What do stalactites sound like when you hit them with a mallet? Physical simulation, cave field recordings, and a playable virtual instrument

MATLAB C++ JUCE

Acoustics Sound

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I run venues at the Edinburgh Fringe, sound-design professional shows, and learned how to be organised by running a theatre. More about this side of me →