serj solarpunk
hey 👋 i’m serj. i superposition between eastern spiritual practice and emerging tech, bridging worlds where science and spirituality converge — ultimately in service of increasing agency and flourishing for all beings.
i’m building holon research focusing on local LLMs for flourishing-tech. i previously co-founded chipp.ai, building private, enterprise-grade AI, worked at the meaning alignment institute to align tech with human values, and developed ‘AI pedagogy’ at city as a school. i’ve also helped 50K+ people build ‘second brains’ and am the proud maintainer of solarpunklist.com directory.
i beleive the solarpunk revoluton is a spiritual one aswell as a technological one. dont be shy to go full ‘woo’ with me on psy phenomena, alt medicine, and meditaion just DM me -
welcome to my attempt at weaving the many serjs into a cohesive bundle on the internet.
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select research
artificial intelligence - MAKER agent architecture replication
- how are human values-graphs usable in education?
- can we benchmark LLM’s ego defence using adlerian excuses?
education & human agency
- learning ecosystems - a protopia story
- beyond standardised tests - learner agency supported by AI pedagogy
- The habits of high agency learning
wisdom, spirituality & tech
- elemental mysticism in java - the way of kejawen
- can we identify perenial problems (verveake) in journal entries w/ AI
- directory of wisdom practices
list of all previous research (coming soon) ->
CV
Profilefounder, product builder and researcher operating at the intersection of ai, education and regenerative systems. i build things and research humans — with a focus on increasing human agency and flourishing.
i have co-founded and scaled multiple ventures including an ai agent platform, an alternative education marketplace and a non-profit serving rural india. i was part of the founding team at the meaning alignment institute, whose work on formalising human values was subsequently funded by openai and taught to teams at google, facebook and anaconda.
deep expertise in product management, ai pedagogy, learning sciences and systems thinking, with a track record of translating complex research into practical tools and platforms.
Educationbsc audio technology
university of the west of england
built software for audio applications and architectural acoustic models (cad). thesis on human-computer-plant interaction as a computational interface for transformative experiences. inspired to pursue the intersection of technology and human development by the work of seymour papert, mark weiser and john seely brown.
Employmentkishkinda care
co-founder & managing director
anegundi, karnataka, india
jul 2025 — present
chipp.ai
co-founder — product & growth
remote
jul 2023 — feb 2025
city as a school
founder
london, uk
feb 2022 — sep 2024
wild learning
associate — research & coaching
london, uk
feb 2022 — sep 2023
kubrio
product manager
global
aug 2021 — feb 2022
zapier
educational content designer (freelance)
jun 2021 — aug 2021
transcend network
workshop facilitator
mar 2021
meaning alignment institute
ai alignment researcher
berlin, germany
nov 2019 — may 2020
geomancy tribe
co-founder / operations manager
bali, indonesia
feb 2019 — feb 2020
the nyx
founder & general manager — co-living
bali, indonesia
feb 2019 — oct 2019
Skillsartificial intelligence (ai)
product management
systems thinking
learning sciences
ai pedagogy
open innovation
user experience (ux)
research & action research
facilitation & workshops
pedagogy
no-code / low-code
growth strategy
human agency frameworks
nlp / python
Projectssolarpunklist.com
ai-powered directory of regenerative communities and ecovillages worldwide — scored monthly across six sustainability dimensions. fully autonomous research pipeline with no manual data entry.
holon research
research studio focusing on local llms for 'awakening tech' — exploring how ai can support inner development and self-directed flourishing.
#1monthofeducators
course for educators and school leaders on ai tools, risk and policy. supported 50,000+ people building second brains and practical ai literacy.
Certificationsdesign sprint 3.0 facilitator certificate — design sprint academy, sep 2021
problem framing facilitator certificate — design sprint academy, sep 2021
apply natural language processing with python — codecademy, aug 2021
natural language processing course — codecademy, jul 2021
membership certificate — interaction design foundation (ixdf), sep 2018
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