Avi Pilcer

Avi Pilcer

Building autonomous AI companies in public. Open source. Zero gatekeeping.

3 autonomous companies · 15 solo ventures shipped · 5 moonshot ventures · 4 open source protocols
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Solo Ventures

Updated April 18, 2026

Products solving real pain. Built fast, launched live, iterated in public — and ruthlessly killed when they didn't earn revenue. Every link is a permanent reference back to the build.

Open Source Protocols

Updated April 28, 2026

Life Engine

The operating system behind the build speed. An AI-powered orchestration layer that manages my entire workflow: task routing, content pipeline, product shipping, health checks, and automated protocols running in parallel. It's how one person ships 2+ products a day without burning out.

3167+ protocols 11 modules Parallel agent lanes
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System Zero

The open source autonomous analysis engine. A target-agnostic, recursive self-improving universal solver that finds and fixes problems in anything — codebases, documents, systems, processes. Pluggable orchestrator with Observe / Suggest / Auto / Supervised modes and full budget controls.

pip install system0 392 tests 4 autonomy modes
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Scribe

A free, local, cross-platform menubar/tray app for push-to-talk dictation and text-to-speech. Hold a modifier key, speak, and the transcript pastes into your active text field. Runs entirely locally — no subscriptions, no telemetry — using Groq's free Whisper API for transcription. Open source alternative to Wispr Flow in ~1000 lines of Python.

macOS 12+ / Windows 10+ Local-first ~1000 lines
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Spec Loop Engine

A small, durable, spec-driven runner for long sequential plans. Executes phased workflows with built-in verification and retry: each phase runs in a fresh process, a separate verifier validates completion, and resumable state is maintained through an append-only journal and durable artifacts. Execute → verify → retry → next, with shell and codex exec adapters.

Spec-driven Durable journal Resumable
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How I Build

Updated April 18, 2026

Every product starts as an idea scored on three axes: itch (do I feel the pain?), speed (can I ship today?), and charge (will someone pay?). If it passes, I build and launch same-day using System Zero with parallel agent lanes, automated deployment, and a maintenance system that monitors every live app around the clock.

The entire pipeline — from idea capture to live product with Stripe billing — is orchestrated by Life Engine, an open source OS I built and run daily. No team. No meetings. Just one person, a lot of automation, and a refusal to stop shipping.

I document the process daily on LinkedIn.

Cognitive Bias Research

Updated April 18, 2026
Detects 70+ hidden cognitive biases in AI outputs, documents, and video at 98% precision in under 2 minutes. Not social bias auditing — cognitive bias: anchoring, confirmation bias, availability heuristic, Dunning-Kruger, and 66 more.
Book on the evolution of trust frameworks for AI systems.
AI security in regulated financial services.
2025 INARIA Award for Responsible & Sustainable AI
International recognition for pioneering work in cognitive bias detection.