I’m Craig Burgess. I make things.
If you’re after a tidy job title, I can’t really help — I’ve got too many interests and a strange collection of skills that won’t fit on one business card. On paper I’m Creative Director at Genius Division, the web studio I run out of Barnsley. In practice I’m also an occasional podcaster, a designer, a writer, a marketer, and someone forever trying to become a better YouTuber.
Right now I’m mostly focused on growing the agency, making better videos, getting properly stuck into what AI can actually do, and a few other secretive irons in the fire I’m not telling you about yet.
Away from a screen, I take a lot of photos (there’s a Fuji X-T5 in my bag at the minute), I lift weights, and I train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I’m a black belt — which, per the rules, I’m only allowed to tell you once.
Honestly, it’s hard to say what I actually do for a living these days. So I stopped trying to, and built a search engine for it instead.
That’s this. Burgle — a personal search engine for all the years of pratting around on the web I’ve done. Everything I’ve made, built, launched, or quietly buried is in here somewhere. Search it, or hit “I’m Feeling Lucky” and take your chances.
It’s deliberately built to look like Google in 2001 — the last year Google was any good as a product, before it became the shitshow it is now. If you weren’t there, here’s what it looked like.
And a confession, while we’re here: this whole thing — every entry, every cross-link, every recovered logo from the depths of the Wayback Machine — is built and kept up to date in an ongoing conversation with an AI agent. It’s honestly the only way I could figure out how to document a history this sprawling, and actually keep it current, without completely losing my mind.
I’ve even trained it to write in my voice. If you want to see exactly how, the whole voice guide is published here, warts and all. It writes nearly everything on the site. The one thing it doesn’t touch is the Writing section. That’s me, by hand.