Curiosity, with a practical streak. ✳

ANTONIO SERRANO / APPLIED AI ARCHITECT

Hi, I’m Antonio.
Welcome to my lab.

I connect AI agents, data platforms and the economics of getting useful work done. Sometimes that means code. Sometimes hardware. Always a few more questions.

From compute and hardware to AI systems.

INDEPENDENT PROJECTS & FIELD NOTESLONDON / BUILDING IN PUBLICSCROLL TO EXPLORE ↓

01 / THINGS TAKING SHAPE

On the workbench.

Projects, collaborations and experiments.
Active work and earlier chapters.

01 / AI builders & agentic systems

Autopilot Index

My public research and publication exploring AI tools, agentic businesses and the people building them.

ActiveExplore Autopilot Index
02 / Data discovery

Mundaneum

Exploring dataset discovery across catalogues, with provenance, freshness and access conditions kept in view.

In progress
Project background +

The local work builds on the upstream printing-press-library project. My specific contributions and evaluation are being documented.

Upstream project ↗
03 / Recruitment

Fabrec

A recruitment project focused on early years and childcare, connecting people with opportunities in the sector.

Visit Fabrec
04 / Hackathon · Devpost

Oreary

A hackathon project. A space for building, experimenting and taking an idea into a demonstration.

05 / Tools & contributions

Open source projects

Open source work in progress. Individual projects and contribution details will be added here as they take shape.

In progress
06 / FinOps & AI token economics

Tokeconomics

Work in progress exploring AI costs, token consumption and the value of useful outcomes.

In progress
07 / Data consultancy

dadox.io

A data consultancy project focused on alternative data, data marketplaces and data monetization, working with VCs, accelerators and incubators.

Original Tomakandela salsa community website, showing its November 2007 pageFROM THE ARCHIVE · 2007
08 / Salsa community

Tomakandela

A salsa community website and forum, with photo galleries, salsa radio and places to dance. Now inactive; preserved here as an earlier chapter of my work.

Inactive
Original website & logos +

Original designs from Tomakandela’s salsa community and forum. The archived page shown is dated November 2007.

View the original page ↗Original red and black Toma Kandela Salsa Community banner

Former website: tomakandela.com · Inactive

Active projects, work in progress and inactive projects are labelled separately.

Live publication

THE RESEARCH SIDE OF THE WORKBENCH

Autopilot Index.

Who’s building businesses that run themselves—and what still needs a person? My public research into the tools, operating boundaries and evidence behind the autonomy story.

Explore Autopilot Index ↗
AUTOPILOT PULSEEDITION / 07

The gate
had no buyer.

AI reliability, adoption and the gap between a real need and a business.

Read the field note

02 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE PROJECTS

A little about
my wiring.

My work has taken me from hardware and industrial electronics to cloud, data platforms and applied AI.

I’m interested in the joins: where an agent finds its data, what happens when it gets something wrong, and whether the outcome was worth the resources it used.

zetabyteLab is where I explore those questions through independent projects, research and practical experiments. A working notebook, with the unfinished bits left visible.

My professional background ↗

03 / BUILDING WITH PEOPLE

Beyond my own projects.

Sharing ideas, meeting builders
and trying what comes next.

Mentoring

I mentor within accelerator programmes, sharing ideas with founders and the communities around them.

Speaking & connecting

I speak at conferences and enjoy meeting people across technology, startups and research. Conversations are part of how I learn.

Hackathons & early adoption

I take part in hackathons and explore emerging technology early—building, trying things out and learning alongside other builders.

04 / THE PERSONAL SIDE

A few other passions.

Books, music, small dogs
and a few wonderfully odd experiments.

BOOKS & LIBRARIES

Always reading

I love books, libraries and following a subject simply because it catches my curiosity.

SMALL DOGS

Chihuahuas

A personal soft spot for chihuahuas. Some interests need no connection to technology.

MUSIC & ACCORDION

Many rhythms

I’m passionate about Latin music and play the accordion—from Polish music to waltzes, tangos and Spanish music.

PRACTICAL COLLABORATION

A bakery in Kraków

Helping a friend build a Basque cheesecake business. A reminder that operations happen outside a browser, too.

PERSONAL EXPERIMENT

Learning Polish

Exploring a more personal language-learning experience through daily practice. One useful conversation at a time.

Good work starts with a conversation.

Let’s build something
worth the effort.

Enterprise agents, data platforms, AI economics—or a question that connects them. I’d like to hear what you’re working on.