New technology. Endless curiosity. ✳

ANTONIO SERRANO / APPLIED AI ARCHITECT

Hi, I’m Antonio.
My lab for the autopilot era.

I connect AI agents, data platforms and FinOps / Tokenomics—including the economics of AI tokens. My lab explores new technology, the builders behind it, and what it takes for businesses to run on autopilot.

From compute 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 index and publication mapping AI business builders, companies working toward autopilot operations, and the agents, tools and infrastructure helping them get there.

ActiveExplore Autopilot Index
02 / Data discovery

Mundaneum

Building a CLI for worldwide dataset discovery across data marketplaces. The ambition: one search to connect datasets with useful applications, making sources and access requirements easier to understand.

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 · DataHub

Orrery

Compares data profiles with DataHub schemas, traces downstream impact, and records findings and recovery proposals through MCP. Built with synthetic demo data.

PrototypeView on Devpost
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 INDEX, THE RESEARCH & THE NEWSLETTER

Building Autopilot Index.

I created Autopilot Index to connect the people building AI businesses, the companies exploring autopilot operations, and the technology that makes those ideas possible.

My work brings together a company index, a map of the tools and infrastructure, practical experiments, and Autopilot Pulse—my newsletter following the progress and the limits of this new wave.

Explore the full index ↗

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.

SALSA & ACCORDION

Salsa, and many rhythms

Salsa is a passion, alongside Latin music and playing 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.