Canon-Engine is a system developed by writers, producers, and systems-developers who believe that AI will raise the bar in professional storytelling, not remove it.
As creative work accelerates and generative tools reshape the process, Canon-Engine provides a clearer way to explore ideas, collaborate, and build worlds without losing authorship, coherence, or intent.
Canon-Engine is an intense effort to give professionals the structure and confidence they need to create at a higher level in the generative era.
the team
Canon-Engine is led by two long-time collaborators: Michael Duggan, a writer–director whose work has lived across film, television, and narrative development – and Robb Bush, a systems-designer with decades of experience delivering advanced applications and infrastructure. Both have spent their careers grappling with how worlds are built, expanded, and protected.
Canon-Engine is the product of that shared frustration and shared optimism – a belief that storytelling in the generative era can be more coherent, more defensible, and more powerful than ever before.
Michael Duggan’s career is rooted in seminal television, starting with production roles on the highly influential series Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice. He launched one of television’s longest-running franchises, serving as Supervising Producer and Head Writer for the first two seasons of Law & Order. Duggan’s creative leadership continued as he created and executive-produced Earth 2 (NBC/Amblin) and C-16:FBI (ABC), and executive-produced the Secret Agent Man remake for Sony. He is currently a Partner at Grosvenor Park, a film and television finance company in London and Los Angeles, where he is responsible for sourcing and vetting every project on the financing slate. LinkedInRobb Bush is an enterprise software and design innovator with more than 30 years of experience creating systems that help organizations navigate complexity, coordination, and change at global scale. Across leadership roles at SAP, i2 Technologies, Infor, and other pioneering technology companies, Robb helped define some of the earliest multi-enterprise B2B commerce networks, advanced interaction models, data visualization systems, and simulation-driven decision platforms. An inventor with multiple U.S. patents, his career reflects a consistent focus on transforming fragmented information into coherent systems that improve understanding, coordination, and action. LinkedIn
advisory board
Brad Brooks specializes in creating value for customers and shareholders by disrupting the status quo across industries. After working as an investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Brad partnered with Bain Capital to acquire DIC Entertainment from The Walt Disney Company in 2000. As president of DIC, he led a creative renewal of its media properties and grew revenue from $10 million to $80 million before taking the company public in London. Brad later founded and grew TigerConnect to become the leading platform for healthcare collaboration before selling the company in a $700m transaction to Vista Partners. LinkedInMike McQuary “McQ” is a veteran technology entrepreneur known for building companies at major moments of technological transition. As President & COO of MindSpring Enterprises, he helped grow the company into the world’s second-largest ISP behind AOL and the first profitable ISP with a public market cap exceeding $5 billion. He later founded companies in digital music distribution, electric vehicles, autonomous driving, and advanced energy systems. Today, as CEO of JTEC Energy, he continues leading innovation at the intersection of technology and infrastructure. His career reflects a consistent ability to identify transformative platform shifts – a perspective highly aligned with Canon-Engine’s narrative infrastructure vision for the AI era. LinkedIn
