Where the work comes from

Lukas studied Computer Science and History at Monmouth College in the US — not because it was a practical combination, but because the most important questions sit exactly where technology and humanity intersect.

That combination became the thread through everything that followed: a drive to understand not only how to build systems, but what they are for and what they do to the people living inside them.

After graduating, Lukas spent two years as a software engineer at ANZ Bank in Melbourne.

He learned how to build systems that work at scale. He also learned that building software inside a large institution, without a real stake in the outcome, wasn't the work he was meant to be doing.

In 2023, he left and went to South America.

Nine months across Peru and Mexico — hiking the Inca Trail, studying pre-Columbian engineering, observing Inti Raymi, sitting with Amazonian shamanic traditions, and interviewing Quechua artisans about circular supply chains and indigenous economic models.

He reached conversational Spanish negotiating artisan prototypes across two countries.

That trip changed what he was building toward. Not because it was romantic — but because he kept encountering civilisations that had answers to questions we're only now asking: about sustainability, community, what endures, and what gets lost.

He came home and started building The Human Archives.

THA is a limited edition physical and digital archive of human civilisation. Each chapter is a hoodie — ten per design — with an embedded NFC chip linked to an artifact page with 3D scans, fractal animations, and historical AI chatbots.

Ten archives are complete. Around twenty pieces have sold. Archive 010, Consciousness, is in production now.

Alongside THA, Lukas has spent the last year building the AI system architecture you're seeing demonstrated on this site — persistent memory, agentic decision-making, multi-channel messaging, and self-improvement loops.

He's now building an AI automation agency with a co-founder, with the first product delivering AI-powered inspection reporting via WhatsApp.