Lucas Erb

Lucas Erb · Founder, AIExperts.com · New York

I am the only human in my office.

About ten software agents run the rest of it. They chase the invoices, draft the proposals and file the paperwork. I keep the parts that need a person.

I spent five years at Deloitte doing the research and writing the code behind it: running the studies, building the prototypes, then publishing what we found. Now I build first and talk second, which turns out to be a much better feedback loop. My company, AI Experts, does the same for other people: training that sticks, and agents that quietly do the work nobody wants.

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Try running my week

Thirty seconds at my front desk. The work turns up on its own schedule, never yours. Hand a job to a free agent, or roll your sleeves up and do it yourself. Fair warning: you can only do one at a time, and the inbox holds five.

Front desk
Ready

The short version

30+Keynotes & sessions
9.2/10Average session rating
36Things I have shipped
2,357Commits in the last year
Speaking →Thirty-plus stages, the photos to prove it, and what people said on the way out. Writing →A World Economic Forum report, four at Deloitte, and the essays nobody edits. Built →Thirty-six things, from a scheduling agent to a backyard skateboard ramp.

Speaking

I do not bring a strategy deck.

I bring the agents, running live, and then we talk about what your team could do on Monday.

Thirty-plus keynotes and sessions so far. Geneva, Puerto Rico, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, a ballroom in Long Beach, and a fair number of hotel carpets in between. Everything I show on stage I built myself, which is why the demos work. The talk gets tailored on a prep call before I write a slide, because a room of tax accountants and a room of founders do not need the same hour.

Most audiences arrive somewhere between nervous and tired of hearing about it. They leave with something they can actually use. That is the whole trick.

30+Keynotes & sessions delivered
450Largest room, in person
2,000Largest virtual session
9.2/10Average session rating

On stage

The Work Less cap was not planned. It has become a thing.

Rooms I have stood in

Sorted by how many people were in front of me. The number is the room, not the registration list.

What people said on the way out

9.2/10Avg rating, M&A advisory program
100%Satisfied, Alegeus Partner Summit
94%Rated extremely valuable, Fortune 100 bank
+36Microsoft Adoption Score, 612-person REIT

All anonymous post-session feedback, lightly punctuated and otherwise untouched. 92% of Alegeus Partner Summit attendees rated the speaker very satisfied. One 612-person REIT reported 20%+ time savings within weeks of the program that followed.

Who has booked me

Hudson Pacific Properties Citigroup CEO Leadership Alliance, Orange County Alegeus

Plus a Fortune 100 bank where 94% of the room rated the session extremely valuable, and a handful of others I am not allowed to name. In the Deloitte years I broadcast live to more than a thousand colleagues and founded TekTôks, an internal speaker series that pulled 100 to 150 people, analysts through partners. Yes, I spelled it with a circumflex. Nobody stopped me. Before any of that: two first-place finishes at the HPE Best-in-Class Presentation Competition, 2016 and 2017, back when the prize was a gift card.

What I can bring

Pick a format, or tell me the goal and the audience and I will design the session around it.

Ask about a date

Send me the room, the date and what you want people doing differently afterward. I answer my own email, usually the same day.

Email me about a date

Prefer to hear me first? Work Less with Lucas on YouTube.

Writing

Research first. The writing came after.

Five years of it at Deloitte, then a newsletter, because some ideas do not survive a review process.

Reports

All researched and written on Deloitte's Novel and Exponential Technologies team, in the office of the CTO, alongside CTO Bill Briggs and Chief Futurist Mike Bechtel. I led the foresight process behind them and the engineering that tested the claims.

The SpaceTech Futures and Tech Trends reports drew over 250 million web impressions. Not all mine. Some, though.

Essays

These I write for myself, on a newsletter called Sharpened. One of them started when I handed an AI five years of my personal journals and asked what it saw. I published the answer in two parts, which I still think about more than I expected to.

Built

Thirty-six things, roughly newest first.

Agents, a few platforms, one company, and a skateboard ramp.

Everything on this list exists and runs. The agents at the top handle my actual back office right now, today, while I am doing something else. The things at the bottom I built with a screwdriver.

The year, counted in commits

GitHub contribution graph showing 2,357 contributions in the last year

2,357 contributions in the last year. The green is where the shipping happened. github.com/lucasaerb

The company

The AI Experts homepage.AIExperts.comAlso shipped

About

The long version.

Lucas Erb.

I am Lucas Erb, founder of AIExperts.com. There, a small fleet of software agents does the back office and I do the human parts. Before this I spent five years at Deloitte on the Novel and Exponential Technologies team, working beside CTO Bill Briggs and Chief Futurist Mike Bechtel on the Tech Trends reports and the xTech Futures series. I co-wrote the World Economic Forum Technology Futures Report. LinkedIn named me a Top Voice in AI, which is invite-only and not a thing you can buy.

The other half of the story is louder. At seventeen I was one of the youngest interns in HP's network test lab: the physical, metal, loud and whirring side of data. I helped prove HPE and Cisco switching hardware could interoperate, which contributed to an $11M sale. Before that came robots, a first computer built from parts, and a massive wooden skateboard ramp in the backyard that I still count among my favorite things I ever shipped. Computer science at UC Irvine, Big Data specialization, sailing team. These days I hack together AI apps in coffee shops across Manhattan and sail on the Hudson.

I am a builder by trade, and that has not changed. The throughput has. I commit more code in a week now, with AI doing most of the typing, than I did in all my years of software engineering before it. The speed of imagination is now the speed of creation.

A few things that did not fit anywhere else. In 2019 I founded giv, a platform for modern charitable giving, and won UC Irvine's New Venture Competition with $12,500 across two competitions. I was a Deloitte Summer Scholar at Facebook that same year, working with the machine learning and data team, where I cut analytics load times by a factor of twenty. AWS certified as a solutions architect in 2021, which mattered more to me than it probably should have. Dean's List, VP of Blockchain at UCI, workshop leader at HackUCI, and an Orange Fellow with the CEO Leadership Alliance. The Orange County Business Journal wrote me up once. I have not framed it, but I know where it is.

Evidence

A robot dog, a walk with Deloitte's CTO, and a paperback I refuse to throw out.

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