ABOUT

One specialist.
Not a platform.

Lucid AI Labs is run by Fabi, a solo founder in Germany who builds and operates every system personally. That is not a limitation we apologize for. It is the product.

You are not customer number 4,000 in a queue. There is one pair of hands on your system, and you know whose.

The story

It started with a to-do app. The AI was an accident.

The honest version: this studio began as a tool to structure my own days for my first company. Nothing more. What it turned into was not planned.

Month 0 · the side quest

A to-do app for another business

I needed something to structure my days for Essential Elements, my first company. Nothing ambitious. A side project. That is the whole reason any of this exists.

Week 2 · the turn

The app became a neural network

Piece by piece it grew into Lucid, my own AI system: a persistent memory graph, semantic vectors, autonomous context management. Two weeks in, the first custom model training was already running.

First results

The first results scared me

Not in a bad way. Even a small version of Lucid showed an independence I had not expected. From then on this was not building tools. It was the foundation for everything that came after.

Nine months in · today

Lucid AI Labs exists because most AI is built badly

Once I started seriously testing the AI products on the market, the pattern was hard to miss: cheap models, generic prompts, no escalation paths, no transparency. Lucid AI Labs exists so the systems we ship are not one more of them.

Why this went commercial.

Generic prompts on cheap models, no understanding of the customer's business, no safeguards. That is why AI already has a bad reputation in many industries before it has properly arrived. Someone should be doing this right.

When I build AI into your business, it is not at the quality you see everywhere else. It is at the quality I built for my own system.

Fabi, founder

One engineer.
Bavaria.

Fabi. Best described as an amateur-level AI researcher: nine months of custom model training, a self-hosted AI system that runs around the clock, and an honest opinion on what works and what does not. Not a salesperson.

240,049
lines shipped across the system
9 mo
solo, in production
~8,000
memory nodes, retrieved by relevance
24/7
self-hosted GPU, running in the EU

Direct. No layers in between.

Small means no account manager, no sales engineer, no junior passing your brief along. You talk to the person who builds the system, operates it, and checks the server at 10pm if something breaks.

What you do not getWhat you get instead
An account manager as first point of contact
Your brief read by the person who builds it
A sales engineer in follow-up calls
Systems built and operated by the same hands
A junior who hands your brief along
Infrastructure we run ourselves, not rented black boxes
A white-label bot from someone else's platform
A real person to write to, not a ticket queue

The rules this studio runs on.

01

Why small

Few projects at a time, chosen carefully. When the work does not meet the standard, it does not ship. That rule only survives if the project list stays short. The cap is not a growth problem, it is the quality standard.

02

Where

Registered German business. Systems self-hosted in Germany where the product calls for it, DSGVO handled as an engineering requirement, not a footnote at the end of a contract.

03

How we prove it

A voice line you can call, a report you can read, systems that answer in public. Everything this site claims can be checked before you spend a cent. Artifacts, not adjectives.

04

One inbox

No sales team, no ticket queue. Write what problem you want gone and you get a straight answer, usually the same day, from the person who will build it: [email protected]

The bench

Lucid is the engineering bench everything is built on.

The personal AI system that started all of this is still running, and it is still the proving ground. The same inference server, memory layer and data residency carry into everything the studio ships, from Verdict reports to chatbots and voice agents.

Engineering bench Live · self-hosted
Inference
Dedicated GPU server · Hetzner Falkenstein, EU only
Memory
~8,000 nodes as 768d vectors · retrieved by relevance, not recency
Telephony
Registered telecom carrier · notified to the German BNetzA
Founder
Fabian Ilg · on LinkedIn

The code is public.

If you want to see who is actually building your system, look at the repos. No marketing repo, the real thing.

Say what should stop being your problem.

Write to Fabi
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