About Ghost Works

Our story

It has never been easier to build something, and never harder to know whether you built what you meant.

Ghost Works began in exactly that place. Trevor was building a web app with an AI assistant. He told it exactly how part of the interface should look, and it built it. A session later, it had changed it back. Nobody had asked it to. He fixed it and explained again. Then it happened to another part, and another. Nothing carried his decisions from one session to the next, so every session they were his to defend all over again.

Defending everything, every session, wears people out, and that is when they stop checking. Researchers call it automation complacency, and it catches experts as surely as beginners.

The answer was not a better model. It was a better working relationship. That became x-Arbiter: it holds the AI's work to what you said you wanted, tells you when it drifts, and keeps the record, with the reasons.

Software is where we started. The need is the same wherever AI does work for people, and that is what Ghost Works is building for.

Leadership

Trevor Lukanen

Co-Founder

Systems architect and product and UX leader. Fifteen years designing products and leading delivery across two startups, Fortune 500 companies and federal contracts. Built x-Arbiter while prototyping Whowe and Community Air.

Yeng Lukanen

Co-Founder

Senior UX researcher on federal contracts, studying how people work with complex systems. A former business owner and certified Scrum PM. Runs operations and delivery.