Joe Ellul-Turner

Joe Ellul-Turner · AI systems architect

Automation is an architecture problem. I build the architecture.

I design and operate AI systems that do real work in production: a dev environment that fits in your pocket, an autonomous agent that ships games unsupervised, and the operations behind a national marketplace. The same architecture is available to your business.

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  • Autonomous agent live miniscript.gg
  • 14+ languages generated daily darscover.com
  • Shipped on Android ellul.app

Selected work

  1. 01

    Consulting & architecture Contractual engagements · via ellul.ai

    AI consulting and architectural solutions for businesses: automation architecture, agent infrastructure, and integration platforms. Scoped against a measurable KPI, delivered in the client's own accounts, engineered like the systems below.

    • Isolated sandboxes, separate storage, approval gates and audit logs in every build
    • Credential isolation by architecture: my agent-security middleware is patent pending (UKIPO)
    • Clients own everything: versioned, monitored software, no platform rent

    Engagements start with a free consult →

  2. 02

    darscover.com AI operations · years in production

    A national property marketplace whose daily content operations run on automation I built and operate. The repetitive work has no humans in it, and it has processed real customer content every day for years.

    • Every uploaded image moderated automatically before publication
    • Listing descriptions generated in 14+ languages at marketplace volume
    • Feed ingestion, automated messaging, and run monitoring that surfaces failures first

    Live at darscover.com →

  3. 03

    miniscript.gg Autonomous agent · live in production

    A browser game platform whose creator studio is run by an autonomous AI agent. It edits code, runs real builds, playtests the result headlessly with vision-model judging, and iterates until the goal is met, unsupervised.

    • Closed loop: edit, build, playtest, judge, iterate, with no human in the chair
    • Hard boundary: generated games run in sandboxed iframes on an isolated origin
    • Every agent action logged and inspectable end to end

    Watch it work at miniscript.gg →

  4. 04

    ellul.app Founder & architect · shipped, Android

    A computer for your agent, in your pocket. A full Linux development environment running on an Android phone: GitHub built in, live preview URLs, a real terminal, AI agents. Every environment is sandboxed by design.

    • Sandboxed execution architecture: user code and agents run isolated from the device
    • Real dev tooling on a phone: bash, Node, Python, git, live previews
    • Free on Android, no laptop and no cloud bill required

    Try it at ellul.app →

How I architect

Every system above, and every client build, follows the same discipline. This is what separates automation that survives production from automation that survives the demo.

Credentials never enter the agent

Secrets are injected at the transport layer and redacted on the way back. A model cannot leak what it never held. Patent pending, UKIPO.

Sandboxes, not trust

Untrusted code and agent output run in isolated environments with separate storage, on the phone, in the browser, and in client infrastructure alike.

Approval gates are architecture

The actions that deserve a human get one, as a checkpoint the system cannot route around, not a policy memo.

Audit logs are the trust interface

Every automated action is logged and inspectable, so humans audit after the fact instead of bottlenecking before it.

KPI-scoped delivery

Every engagement starts by agreeing the number it will move. Automation is sold as ROI, not effort.

Owned, not rented

Clients get versioned, tested, monitored software they own outright. No per-task fees, no platform to outgrow, and leaving is free.

Working tools

The tooling I use to decide and deliver. Two of them run live on this site; the rest run my business.

Live demo

Mention Scout

Off-page SEO automation: searches Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Overflow and Bluesky for your brand, flags mentions that never linked back, and exports an outreach-ready CSV. Runs in your browser.

Run it →

Live demo

Automation ROI calculator

The intake arithmetic I run before quoting anything: annual cost of the manual task, savings at a realistic automation share, payback against any quote. Runs in your browser.

Run it →

Live demo

Should you automate this?

The Easy/Hard classification from my consults, self-serve in eight questions. It says no when no is the honest answer.

Take the test →

In production

Owned outbound engine

Lead sourcing, an AI research pass that scores fit and writes openers, an owned sequencer with reply routing. Replaced Clay, Apollo and n8n for my own pipeline.

Ask about it →

In production

Provisioning automation

Client infrastructure stood up by automation rather than hands: accounts, secrets, deployment and monitoring from a blueprint, so builds go live in days.

Ask about it →

Have a workflow that deserves better engineering?

The consult is free, 30 minutes, and honest: what is worth automating, what is not, and what to buy nowhere. Or email me directly.

Book the free consult joe@ellul.ai

Plain answers

Who is Joe Ellul-Turner?

Joe Ellul-Turner (also written Joe Ellul) is an AI systems architect and the founder of ellul.ai, a specialist AI automation studio. He designs and operates AI automation in production: ellul.app, an Android app giving users a sandboxed development environment on their phone; an autonomous agent that ships games at miniscript.gg; and the AI operations behind the darscover.com marketplace. His agent-security middleware is patent pending (UKIPO).

What is ellul.app?

ellul.app is an Android app built by Joe Ellul-Turner that turns a phone into a full development computer: a sandboxed Linux environment with GitHub built in, live preview URLs, a real terminal and AI agents. It is free and Android-only.

What kind of consulting does Joe Ellul-Turner do?

Contractual AI consulting and architecture through his studio ellul.ai: automation architecture, agent infrastructure and integration platforms, scoped against a measurable KPI and delivered in the client's own accounts with sandboxes, approval gates and audit logs by default.

How do I work with him?

Book the free 30-minute consult at ellul.ai or email joe@ellul.ai. The consult runs under an honesty rule: you are told what is worth automating, what is not, and what to buy nowhere.