Lucas Machado

Founder of Causelayer (causelayer.co), where I design and implement custom AI systems for founders, operators, and small teams. I help business owners build AI systems that do actual work, not just chatbots that talk about it. Background: Masters from Carnegie Mellon, Electrical & Computer Engineering summa cum laude from Rutgers. Six years in video games (Crystal Dynamics on Tomb Raider, Senior Producer at Zynga), then 13 years in real estate (200+ deals). Now full-time on AI consulting and implementation. Topics I can speak to with specifics, not platitudes: - Practical AI adoption for small businesses and solo operators (what actually works vs. hype), - The gap between "using ChatGPT" and building real AI systems, - AI agents, automation, and workflow orchestration, - How non-...