About Evil Works

Find out the devious details about our quirky company

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Who is Evil Works?

From a team who spent far too much time cleaning data comes a cunning plan: to reinvent how data science is done.

While the AI explosion has created widespread enthusiasm for data science skills, the current tools and infrastructure balance on relics of the nineties. Combine this with a lack of widespread data science education (“hey, you’re a STEM grad, that means you can do data science, right?”) and we have an industry ripe for disruption.

Evil Works is built by these grads, those who have learned data science in the trenches, solving real world problems with lackluster tools. It’s the pain of this lived experience that inspired us to create the solution to our problems: a redesign of the Data Scientist eXperience (DSX).

Why Evil Works

  • Do you identify more with Vader than Luke, Mumra than He–Man, Thanos than Captain Marvel, Batman? Us too. It’s just more fun to be an antihero.

  • You know what villains have in common? They get stuff done. The engineering challenges involved in world domination are ridiculous, yet they mostly fail due to obvious character flaws: hubris, arrogance, madness, or other distinctly ‘human’ factors. Meanwhile their evil empire achieves amazing engineering and logistical feats. In brief: evil works.

  • We got distracted when invited to play a D&D campaign and accidentally made the lawful good character chaotic evil then accidentally took out the final boss of the campaign, thus proving Evil Works.

  • We lost a bet and had to leta an 8 year old name the company. The 8 year old was into superheroes but annoyed at us at the time and decided we were the bad guys, hence Evil Works.

  • In a world where generative AI can replicate a 1.0 human easily, it is the outliers: creatives, the neurodivergent, members of fringe communities, etc. which bring innovation and differentiated thought to an organisation. We embrace the “other” wholeheartedly so we can reach a little further into the future.

  • We are building AI products on the cusp of the singularity. We should constantly remind ourselves of the worst-case scenario, as foretold throughout science fiction. Putting a warning in the company name itself seems prudent.

  • We are a profit-seeking company like any other. It’s just that we prefer to be upfront and transparent about how we make our money. Besides, pretending to be nice is just too much like work.

  • In a world of TikTok inspired attention spans, you need a name that grabs attention immediately. Evil Works, works.

  • Because it is not enough to be successful. We want to be successful with style.

  • Lets be honest, Silicon Valley has descended into farce in recent years. Let a bunch of eccentric Brits take a turn!

  • … because megalomania is a valid life choice too.

Just Two Nerds with a Dream

(of Global Domination)

Meet the Founding Team:

Graham McNeil-Watson

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Leigh Collier

Founder and Chief Client, Community and Product Officer (C³PO)

Our Evil Lair Community

It gets a little lonely scheming on our own so we’ve created our Evil Lair Community in which data scientists can congregate to discuss the latest tech news, share data challenges and engage in all things evil.

In the community you will also find regular updates on Evil Works developments, educational and career opportunities and all things data science.

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