Autopilot Index
My public research and publication exploring AI tools, agentic businesses and the people building them.
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ANTONIO SERRANO / APPLIED AI ARCHITECT
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.
01 / THINGS TAKING SHAPE
Projects, collaborations and experiments.
Active work and earlier chapters.
My public research and publication exploring AI tools, agentic businesses and the people building them.
ActiveExplore Autopilot Index ↗Exploring dataset discovery across catalogues, with provenance, freshness and access conditions kept in view.
In progressThe local work builds on the upstream printing-press-library project. My specific contributions and evaluation are being documented.
Upstream project ↗A recruitment project focused on early years and childcare, connecting people with opportunities in the sector.
Visit Fabrec ↗A hackathon project. A space for building, experimenting and taking an idea into a demonstration.
Open source work in progress. Individual projects and contribution details will be added here as they take shape.
In progressWork in progress exploring AI costs, token consumption and the value of useful outcomes.
In progressA data consultancy project focused on alternative data, data marketplaces and data monetization, working with VCs, accelerators and incubators.
FROM THE ARCHIVE · 2007A 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.
InactiveOriginal designs from Tomakandela’s salsa community and forum. The archived page shown is dated November 2007.
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Former website: tomakandela.com · Inactive
Active projects, work in progress and inactive projects are labelled separately.
THE RESEARCH SIDE OF THE WORKBENCH
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 ↗AI reliability, adoption and the gap between a real need and a business.
Read the field note ↗02 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE PROJECTS
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
Sharing ideas, meeting builders
and trying what comes next.
I mentor within accelerator programmes, sharing ideas with founders and the communities around them.
I speak at conferences and enjoy meeting people across technology, startups and research. Conversations are part of how I learn.
I take part in hackathons and explore emerging technology early—building, trying things out and learning alongside other builders.
04 / THE PERSONAL SIDE
Books, music, small dogs
and a few wonderfully odd experiments.
I love books, libraries and following a subject simply because it catches my curiosity.
A personal soft spot for chihuahuas. Some interests need no connection to technology.
I’m passionate about Latin music and play the accordion—from Polish music to waltzes, tangos and Spanish music.
Helping a friend build a Basque cheesecake business. A reminder that operations happen outside a browser, too.
Exploring a more personal language-learning experience through daily practice. One useful conversation at a time.
Enterprise agents, data platforms, AI economics—or a question that connects them. I’d like to hear what you’re working on.