Ben Ford

Mission Ctrl

Mission Ctrl delivers digital sovereignty for service businesses scaling past $5M in revenue.

Unlike traditional consultants or SaaS platforms that create dependency, we build AI-powered business operating systems that clients completely own and control from day one.

Our Ops Ctrl solution transforms service businesses from selling time to selling outcomes by:

✅ Capturing expertise into systems that scale beyond key individuals
✅ Ensuring consistent service excellence regardless of who delivers it
✅ Growing revenue without proportional cost increases
✅ Eliminating vendor lock-in through client-owned infrastructure
✅ Deploying military-grade methodology with technical implementation

We're highly selective, working with only 2 new clients per month to ensure exceptional implementation and results.

Want to transform your service business from expert-dependent to outcome-focused? Message me to explore if we're the right fit.

Founder & CEO

The Cold Water Club

Founding Member

The Pioneers

Applying cutting edge technologies to help businesses build coherent, systematic and innovative employee experiences.

We design and build people operating systems to create a culture that drives your growth and gives you a sustainable source of competitive advantage

Tech Partner

Commando Development

I've lived and breathed teams and people for the last 10 years in tech, but it's only relatively recently that I realised just how much I learned about high performance and operational excellence when I was in the Royal Marines.

Commando Development blends the kind of cutting edge tech powering the current generation of billion dollar unicorns with ages old military strategy. We empower businesses to build the technical foundations to make the right decisions and operate at the pace the modern world demands.

Founder and CEO

TechVets

TechVets is an incredible organisation whose goal is to build a bridge for veterans into a career in technology. I couldn't be prouder in taking on this advisory role to help accelerate their impact. We're making this bridge stronger and better signposted.

From teaching myself the basics of Python and Linux on HMS Ocean on the way to the Iraq war in 2003, tech has been an incredible journey for me. It took me the best part of a decade to realize it, but so much of what made me successful were skills and values I had learned in the Royal Marines. I will do everything in my power while I'm part of the TechVets community to ensure that people leaving the forces are extended the same opportunities in tech that I was lucky enough to find!

As the world becomes more and more exponential in its pace of change the skills veterans learn about operating in ambiguity and complexity while achieving their mission will be inceasingly important. After all, anyone who's served has had about the equivalent of an MBA spent on their development.

Think about that for a sec. Everything we do in the forces is about hitting the ground running, without a full picutre and making things happen. It's time business saw that value.

Chief Technical Advisor

Tweag I/O

Haskell/Business development

Standard Chartered Bank

Joining the highly successful Standard Chartered Strats team, I've been involved in implementing bank wide, high profile projects in the internal Haskell dialect, Mu.

Quantitative Developer

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Developing robust, high quality Haskell code.

Contract Python Developer

Fynder

Built one of the best software teams I've ever worked with and led them in the development of a Haskell backed web start up.

Developing a middle office reconciliation framework on the Quartz platform.

Contract FX Options developer

I help service business owners scaling past $5M achieve what their competitors can't: complete technological independence while transforming expertise into scalable outcomes.

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗠:
Service businesses face a critical choice when scaling:
▪️ Build disconnected "Frankenstacks" of SaaS tools creating perpetual dependency
▪️ Hire expensive in-house technical teams with fixed costs regardless of project needs
▪️ Work with consultants who deliver reports without implementation

The result? Vendor lock-in, escalating costs, and systems that fragment as you grow.

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡:
At Mission Ctrl, we build client-owned, AI-powered operating systems that:
▪️ Transform your expertise into systems you completely own and control
▪️ Deliver consistent service excellence regardless of who delivers it
▪️ Scale your revenue without proportionally increasing costs
▪️ Convert your business from selling time to selling outcomes

𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗪𝗘'𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧:
▪️ Military Inspired Methodology: As a former Royal Marines Commando turned software engineer, I bring 20+ years of technical expertise with military precision to business operations
▪️ Client Ownership: Unlike SaaS platforms, you own all code and infrastructure from day one
▪️ Rapid Results: We deploy functional environments in under a day and achieve cash flow neutrality within 4 months

We're accepting only 2 new clients per month. If you're scaling a service business and want a ompetitive edge that drives growth without proportional costs, let's talk.

Co-Founder

Mission Ctrl exists to ease the growing pains of scaling businesses by building custom digital infrastructures that enable internal operations to scale.

We help you build a custom platform that's yours from day one, using the most cost effective and powerful open-source technology available.

We call it Organisational Engineering As A Service.

Launch your business into the future by building a platform to integrate your people, processes and technology.

✅ Free people's capacity to innovate
✅ Implement and digitise process to scale
✅ Harness technology to eliminate repetition

Get in touch if your want us to help engineer competitive advantage into your DNA

Don't Debate, Litigate

In September 2019, to write its MIT report, MIT's lawyers searched 610K MIT emails — not for information they needed to report but for evidence they needed to hide. MIT lawyer Scott Barshay said that "problematic emails that may come out" are always his first priority. And he took care to be prepared whether they did or didn't.

But this process can also be reversed, and "problematic emails" can be found, brought out through the Discovery process in litigation, so that the MIT community can learn the facts of what has been happening at MIT over the past 20 years. It ain't gonna be pretty but sure is necessary.

Polycrisis Analyst

From Corruption to Crime to Coverup (2010-2020)

For the past 6 months, my MIT investigation narrowed to focus exclusively on the 10-year period from January 2010 to January 2020. Details in attached PDFs.

MIT Whistleblower

Influence of Fossil Fuel Funding at MIT (2004-2024)

Following a 27-year career at MIT as a Communications Manager working primarily in the areas of energy, sustainability, and climate change, I spent 6 years investigating the covert influence of fossil fuels at MIT from 2004 to 2024. Findings are available in the attached PDF.

Principal Investigator

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Building Manager for Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering, 4-story research center with 10 research laboratories, 18 faculty, and ~25 students, postdocs and research staff. 

-- Overhauled machine shop as Sustainability Maker Space, geared to repurposing discarded furniture, pallets, and other materials. 
-- Overhauled and renovated classrooms, conference rooms, labs, and storage spaces, at minimal cost to lab. 
-- Built strong relationships with MIT Recycling, Grounds, Facilities, and Housekeeping to upgrade services and equipment and improve day-to-day maintainability.
-- Nominated for CEE Excellence Award, "for excellent contributions to our community, commitment to professionalism, dedication and best practices, as well as fostering a culture of diversity, inclusiveness, and innovation."

Building Manager, MIT Parsons Lab

Communications Manager, MIT Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems(CANES)

MIT Center for Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems (EBICS)
Design, develop, maintain website for National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, EBICS.net. Functionality includes: Intranet, program administration and document/image repository; 100+ member profiles, outreach and education (including videos and online courses), news, calendar, and events; Constant Contact integration; website training for program participants; conference websites (including registration).

Web Developer, MIT Center for Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems (EBICS)

Develop and maintain websites for Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (including e-commence and conference registration functionality); coordinated publication of CANES Reports series (online and in print); created departmental brochures, reports, and special projects; provide department- wide technical support.

Communications Manager and Web Developer, MIT Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES)

In 2009 I created and maintained sustainability.mit.edu to support MIT student groups working in the area of Sustainability and the Environment, in the same way I had done since 2007 for the MIT Energy Club and other student groups working in the area of Energy.

Web Developer, photographer, and site maintainer for sustainability.mit.edu.

Develop and maintain multi-media website for international air pollution program led by Nobel Laureate Mario Molina. Researched and designed multimedia “Education and Outreach” website, using cartoon narratives, streaming media, and scientific lessons to engage general public in effort to reduce air pollution; collaborated with Mexican and U.S. colleagues to create scientific content.

Web Developer, MIT Program on Air Pollution in Megacities

Coordinated production of textbook and quarterly newsletter (copy editing, graphics, printing, budget, conference organizing, communications with colleagues); managed office.
Project management: Coordinated production of textbook on atmospheric chemistry (edited by G. Brasseur, R. Prinn, and A. Pszenny): Facilitated communications with international authors; created all graphics and illustrations; developed database to automate copyright requests (subsequently adopted by four other core project offices); established formatting guidelines for eight-volume series verified and updated 1700 bibliographic references.

Conference organizing: 1) Organized 200-person conference in Aspen, CO (online registration, creation and distribution of 400-page draft document via pdf download, menu, budget, schedule, financial support, reimbursements; 2) Organized three-day meeting in Bern, Switzerland to develop collaborative network of webmasters; 3) Represented project office at conferences in Japan, Mexico, Thailand, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland.

Communications Manager, International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Program, MIT

Following a 27-year career at MIT as a Communications Manager for some of MIT's most noted faculty and student groups, most working in the area of energy and sustainability, I've spent the past seven years investigating fossil fuel corruption at MIT from 2004 to 2024. No arrests yet, not even any prosecutions. Just a mess of depressing facts. But instead of winding down with fossil fuels, MIT is now ramping up with weapons development, and those new clients now target MIT students who question their right to the MIT campus and brand.

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