Luke
Landis
Lien
Machine
An agentic operating system for a legacy asset-based lending firm.
I spent a summer shadowing my dad at Entrepreneur Growth Capital, his asset-based lending firm. A lot of what people did there all day was mechanical. They keyed in the same data and recalculated the same formulas by hand, and it ate the time they should have been spending on the gray area judgment calls that actually run the business.
So I decided to build something that could take that work off them, and eventually take on some of the judgment too. I had never used GitHub before I started.
It took the better part of a year instead of the few weeks I expected. It is being rolled out at EGC now.
TaleWhale
An app that turns what you say into a printed hardcover novel.
A novel starring all of my friends seemed like an easy birthday gag. Getting the AI to hold a coherent plot across 200 pages took a full weekend. Finding a printer, formatting the interior and designing a cover took another one.
TaleWhale does that whole weekend in a few minutes. You talk at it for as long or as little as you want, pick a length, and it writes. You can design the cover while it works, and the hardcover shows up in one to two weeks.
Phluidity
Landing page for a Loeb.NYC incubated fintech.
Phluidity is a Loeb.NYC incubated fintech that wants to make private markets trade more like public ones. What that should actually look like kept moving all summer, because every path we considered ran into a different regulatory wall and picking one meant giving something else up.
My job was mostly translation. I turned those debates into a story short enough to pitch to launch partners, investors and the rest of the incubator. I made this landing page to introduce Phluidity to the public.
Safari
Day
An animal identification app by way of Pokémon Go and Animal Crossing.
I was in Nairobi for HBS’s FIELD program and I wanted to know everything about every animal I saw. Sending photos to ChatGPT worked well enough but it was not much fun, and the apps built for this were accurate and a pain to use. Discovering animals in the wild is exciting and an app for it should be too.
So I built my own in 16-bit. It identifies what you photographed and tells you about it like the others do, and it also gives you a pixel art portrait of the animal to keep in your collection.
Then I let the scope run away from me and added a pet simulator. You do not just log the animal, you adopt it and send it home to your sanctuary.
