I'm an entrepreneur, software engineer, and musician from the United Kingdom. I specialise in building web applications and sites using Laravel, and macOS and iPhone applications using Swift.
By day, I'm Chief Technology Officer at Mumsnet, and by night (and weekends), I'm building ShowLab.
In my spare time I can be found playing in or musically directing theatre productions across the UK as well as recording and producing click tracks for touring theatre, bands and artists.
Being the only person who can do something can look like security, but it often traps you beside the same responsibility forever. Sharing knowledge makes the team safer and creates room for you to take on something new.
AI gives businesses a choice. They can use the extra capacity to employ fewer people, or keep investing in people and attempt far more than they could before.
A single person can build a business that supports a family, fits around the life they want and grows only when they want it to. There's something remarkable about a company that can stay this simple and still change its owner's life.
AI has made it easier than ever to build every idea we have. The thing that matters now is having the taste to know which ones shouldn't be built at all.
Knowledge makes someone useful in the role you hired them for. Curiosity makes them useful in places you never expected.
Five Towns Theatre
May 2026
Stoke Youth Musical Theatre Company
Apr 2026
Five Towns Theatre
Nov 2025
Matthew Davis is an entrepreneur, software engineer, and musician from the United Kingdom.