Connor England

I’m an AI engineer. I build workflows where a model does the repeated work and a person keeps the decisions. Pattern Engine is my newsletter about how to build them well.

I’m an AI engineer. I build workflows where a model does the repeated work and a person keeps the decisions. Pattern Engine is my newsletter about how to build them well.

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Resources

Resources

Resources

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Premium Guides

Pattern Engine

Step-by-step guides for building one specific AI workflow. The first guide is still being written.

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Open notebook with a three-step workflow sketch and a checklist, one item being written in orange

Premium Guides

Pattern Engine

Step-by-step guides for building one specific AI workflow. The first guide is still being written.

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Free community

AI Workflow Builders

A free Skool community where people share what they are building with AI, find ideas for new workflows and get help when they are stuck.

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A group of people raising a timber wall frame together on a hillside

Free community

AI Workflow Builders

A free Skool community where people share what they are building with AI, find ideas for new workflows and get help when they are stuck.

Explore the community

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Open source

Code & Tools

Four tools I built for my own work with coding agents. They cover writing, planning, video and decisions.

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Open source

Code & Tools

Four tools I built for my own work with coding agents. They cover writing, planning, video and decisions.

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Coming soon

Workflow Foundry

A planned small-group program. You build one AI workflow around your own work and test that it holds up.

A person lays brick pavers along a worn path while another carries more bricks

Coming soon

Workflow Foundry

A planned small-group program. You build one AI workflow around your own work and test that it holds up.

Letters

Excerpts from Pattern Engine. Each one links to the full letter on Substack.

25 March 2026

Pattern Card #1: Attention

What you lose when a model reads the sources for you.

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6 March 2026

Why I Started Pattern Engine

Why I started a newsletter about using AI without handing over your thinking.

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About Me

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I build applied AI systems in regulated healthcare. On my own time, I write Pattern Engine and publish the tools I make along the way.

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Connor England at his desk in the Pattern Engine studio
Connor England at his desk in the Pattern Engine studio

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Pattern Engine is where I share my best thinking, tools and workflow guidance. You can read it and subscribe for free.

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