About the Maker
One person. A small family of AI tools, built with care.
"Building tools that feel like talking to a friend."
The Story
After 20 years building enterprise management systems, I noticed a pattern: the most powerful software was often the hardest to use.
Complex workflows, endless forms, complicated menus, and countless settings were designed to manage business processes. They were powerful, but they often created more friction than help.
But for personal life, things are different.
Most people don't need another complicated productivity system. They just need a simple assistant who understands what they want and helps them get things done.
That led me to a simple question: what if software could work more like talking to a real assistant?
Lumacode is my answer. It is not a platform or a suite — it is a small family of focused AI tools, each one solving a single problem well.
Building Lumi
Lumi was the first. With the help of AI development tools, I spent 10 weeks building an AI task assistant designed around natural conversation.
Instead of creating tasks through complicated screens and templates, you simply describe what you need, review the result, and confirm. Lumi understands your intent, creates the reminder, and organizes your day through natural language.
No complicated setup. No unnecessary steps. Just talk, confirm, and get things done. Learn more about Lumi →
Building ThinkAloud
ThinkAloud came from a different problem. My best ideas rarely arrive when I am at a keyboard — they come while walking, driving, or between meetings. Capturing them means stopping, opening an app, and typing, which is exactly when the thought escapes.
ThinkAloud is built around the opposite workflow: capture first, organize later. You speak freely and save the raw thought. Then, on your terms, AI cleans the spoken language, merges related fragments, and turns them into faithful memos, action plans, and document drafts.
It is not a chatbot, and it is not a creative writer. ThinkAloud organizes what you actually said — it does not invent what you didn't. Learn more about ThinkAloud →
The Technology
Both products share one architecture, and one conviction: your data belongs on your device.
They are built with Flutter for cross-platform development, lightweight Cloudflare Workers for AI routing, and encrypted on-device storage. ThinkAloud even runs speech recognition locally, so your voice never has to leave your phone to become text.
Your conversations, reminders, thoughts, and documents stay with you. You can manage, export, or delete your data whenever you want.
The Philosophy
I believe AI applications should follow five principles:
- Focus on the individual — AI should not only help companies and teams. Everyone deserves their own assistant.
- Privacy first — your personal data belongs to you. It should stay under your control.
- AI enhances, doesn't replace — AI reduces friction and handles complexity, while you remain in control.
- Affordable by design — useful AI tools should be accessible, not limited to expensive subscriptions.
- Manual fallback always — talk or tap. AI should make things easier, not take away your choices.
The Journey
Lumacode is still just getting started. Two products are live or in the works, and there is room for more — every one of them built the same way: small, focused, and private by default.
This is only the beginning.