Bato Labs work
Context: Within the Bato Labs product lab, Whimsy was developed as a parenting ideas app for parents and caregivers. Role: Bato Labs defined, built, released, marketed, and operates the public product surfaces. Central problem: Parents collect ideas everywhere but need a useful activity idea at the right moment, with context, age, energy, location, and low-prep constraints handled clearly. What changed or was produced: Whimsy reached live public product, marketing, and distribution surfaces, including product site, store destinations, subscription infrastructure, support paths, and operating process.
Read How Whimsy moved from parenting problem to live product surface.
Historical Careforth work
Context: From May 2019 to April 2025, Christopher served as Head of Data at Careforth. He founded the data function, hired and led teams across domestic and international locations, and built the analytics platform supporting product, operations, and clinical reporting for a caregiver platform serving thousands of families. Role: This is historical Careforth work, not a Bato Labs client engagement. Central problem: The organization needed AI-assisted workflow capability to move from experimentation toward dependable operating use while preserving ownership, review, evaluation, and sensitive-data boundaries. What changed or was produced: Automated governed pipelines and embedded analytics partnerships reduced time-to-insight by 60% across the broader Careforth data-platform work. The representative AI release pattern shows how ownership, realistic evaluation, review gates, and operating handoff were treated as release requirements.
Read Operating AI delivery in a regulated context.