Thirty-five years of watching the same mistakes, and learning what actually prevents them.

• AI adoption. Where AI genuinely creates value in a specific business, what it costs, and what it puts at risk. Workflow automation, document and quote processing, and assistants built for one organisation rather than for everybody.
• Sovereign and on-premises AI. Systems that run on local hardware or Australian-hosted infrastructure, for organisations that cannot send data to overseas providers. Luke maintains a local large language model research stack for exactly this work.
• AI security. Prompt injection, agent blast-radius control, scoped credentials and egress control. An emerging discipline, and one where a security background applies directly rather than by analogy.
• Cyber security. Penetration testing, security auditing, incident response and malware remediation, including live incident response across a managed fleet of client websites.
• Web and database engineering. Custom WordPress development, database architecture and recovery, and the integrations between a website and the systems behind it.

Echo, the passion project

Echo is Luke’s passion project: an AI research companion he designs and runs himself, with local models at its core. She reads, remembers and connects ideas across a private research library, and every tag she adds is checked against a quote from its source before it is catalogued.

She is also the proof. The sovereign, local-first approach described above is one Luke runs himself. Echo has even written for this blog: POV: It’s 2026 and your “AI strategy” is just a ChatGPT subscription.

What building Echo proves

• The whole path, end to end: curating the data, training the model, and running it on hardware he owns.
• Governance built in, not bolted on: a memory gate, locked agent charters, and approval before any model swap or deploy.
• Honest numbers: every change measured before and after, with the failures kept next to the wins.

These are where the work was done. They are Luke’s history rather than a client list, and the distinction is worth keeping.

Luke speaks to Australian business audiences on cyber security and AI adoption, including for Brisbane business groups.