Independent AI engineer
turning slow processes into strengths.
I'm Lukas Vanagas. I help companies cut through the noise around AI — discovering where it pays off, building it, and leaving the team able to carry it forward.
Real projects. Real numbers.
Two case studies from past lives — and more being written from current engagements.
How Flügger grew online revenue 13% with AI-generated color pages
40,000 paint colors. Four markets. Mathematical pigment data turned into emotional, multilingual copy — GDPR-compliant via Azure.
A private, GDPR-compliant AI hub for a team of 12
Open WebUI + LiteLLM + Azure OpenAI. Hot-swap between Claude, Gemini, and GPT-4 — without sending a byte outside the EU.
Clients, in their own words.
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Hands-on since GPT-3.5.
I've been building with large language models since they first became broadly useful — late 2022, early 2023. Before that, fifteen years of writing software for the web. Today I work as an independent consultant: discovering where AI moves the needle, building the thing that proves it, and handing it over so the team owns it.
I work best with leaders who'd rather have an honest, hands-on engineer in the room than a slide deck from a brand-name agency. Smaller, ambitious teams. Direct access. No account managers.
Have a process that feels painful?
Book a free 45-minute call. No pitch. Just an honest look at where AI could actually help — or where it can't.
Book a discovery callOr just email lukas@lvc.dk.