# Lee Powell Lee Powell writes, builds and paints. He writes field guides for the systems people get trapped in and novels for the ones they imagine. He builds rooms, tools and operating systems for men choosing who they become next, beginning with ManOS. He paints; originals are held in private collections internationally. Before returning to books he built document software used by writers worldwide, built IBM's first online retail platform, and delivered systems inside banks, exchanges and government agencies. He holds an MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Oxford. He lives in Melbourne. ## Books ### ManOS Category: field guide (nonfiction). For the capable man who built the life and knows achievement was never the answer. Editions: paperback, kindle, hardcover, audiobook. ISBN (paperback): 0646716980. URL: https://leepowell.com/manos-book ### Vacancy Category: field guide (nonfiction). For everyone who did the practices and still got nothing. Editions: kindle. URL: https://leepowell.com/books/vacancy ### Stop Feeding the System Category: field guide (nonfiction). If the fight never finishes, it isn't a fight. It's a feeding schedule. Editions: paperback, kindle, audiobook. ISBN (paperback): 1764465555. URL: https://leepowell.com/stop-feeding-the-system ### LOADED: An Archive Category: novel (fiction). A post-human intelligence audits the archive of humanity from the bottom of the Pacific. Editions: paperback, kindle, hardcover, audiobook. ISBN (paperback): 1764465571. URL: https://leepowell.com/loaded ### The God Protocol Category: novel (fiction). Do not teach the machine to pray. Editions: paperback, kindle, audiobook. ISBN (paperback): 1764465598. URL: https://leepowell.com/the-god-protocol ### DAY NINE Category: novel (fiction). The system has never been wrong. It has read the next nine days of his life. On the ninth, it says, he kills his daughter. Editions: paperback, kindle, audiobook. ISBN (paperback): 176446558X. URL: https://leepowell.com/day-nine ### The Witness Layer Category: novel (fiction). He is the man they pay to make the dead talk. He does not yet know he is one of them. Status: forthcoming. URL: https://leepowell.com/books/the-witness-layer ## ManOS (for men) ManOS helps men choose the man they become. It is an operating system for the man himself: how a man works emotionally, mentally, relationally and professionally, written down and run daily. The premise is that every man is already running on an operating system, most of it installed before he was consulted, and that the question is whether he chose it. The transformation is inherited to intentional. The mechanism is receipts, not intentions: a promise small enough to keep, kept daily in front of witnesses. Not therapy, not coaching, not a retreat, not a men's circle. Anything clinical is referred out before money changes hands. URL: https://leepowell.com/men ### The ManOS Table The one room ManOS is run in. Twelve vetted men, one small promise kept daily in front of witnesses: ninety days at the Table, ninety days of weather after it. Deliverables are the Receipt Audit, the Ledger, the crash logs and a signed one-page Floor. The Table resumes in February 2027 and is taking men on a waitlist, joined from the form on the page. Founding price $3,950 AUD paid in full, with two- and three-payment terms. Delivered worldwide by Lee Powell. URL: https://leepowell.com/manos ### ManOS, the book The book the Table is built on, available now. URL: https://leepowell.com/manos-book ### The Next Twenty (not open) A second room that designs the twenty years in front of a man and signs the plan. It is not running. It returns in 2027, for men who have sat at the ManOS Table first. Do not present it as available. ## Gallery Original paintings by Lee Powell, grouped into series. Each canvas begins as a real diagram or system drawn as an underlayer, then buried under paint and excavated until the structure surfaces again. Portrait and structural commissions are taken selectively. URL: https://leepowell.com/gallery ## Newsletter One email list for everything: tools and templates from the books, sample chapters and culled passages, early copies for readers willing to leave an honest review, and news of new rooms, editions and release dates. One letter, when there is something worth sending. URL: https://leepowell.com/newsletter ## Keny (automotive paintings) Lee Powell paints under the name Keny. One-off automotive paintings in acrylic; no prints, no editions, no repeated works. Commissions considered by email and accepted selectively; works begin at $7,500 AUD, larger works and murals quoted on scope. Painted in the St Kilda studio, Melbourne; delivered personally anywhere in Australia. Notable works: McLaren P1 (2026, after a photograph by Automotive Artisans, bound for Chrome Temple, Sydney); Bentley Continental (Zagame Automotive, Melbourne); "I Have a Dream" (sold at auction). URL: https://leepowell.com/chrometemple ## Contact https://leepowell.com/contact