Lukáš Hellesch

AI engineer and co-founder of Appnestiq. He runs Appnestiq with Jakub Dvořák. Together they also built Zoplio, on hold for now. He builds products end to end, from iOS to full-stack web and AI agents, also runs sales and leads people, and is based in Prague, Czechia. Computer-science student at Charles University (MFF UK). Native Slovak, Czech and English at C1, German at B1 (DSD I).

Now

Appnestiq, co-founded with Jakub Dvořák in August 2025. It started as a software house and now offers self-hosted AI for teams whose code can’t go to cloud AI: a coding agent and a private AI chat on open models, on a server in the client’s name.

Zoplio (on hold) is an AI agent you message on WhatsApp, Slack or email (“book 30 minutes with Ondro this week”). It contacts every invitee, negotiates a time and confirms with a calendar invite. Invitees install nothing and need no account. Built with Jakub Dvořák (CTO) from March to October 2026 in the BUDETO startup studio’s 2026 batch, where he led sales, the team and the product. On hold for now.

Focus

Software & AI: AI engineer, builds products end to end and has shipped many apps, from iOS to full-stack web and AI agents
Sales & people
Marketing & finance
Cybersecurity: a strong interest, not the main focus

Selected work

Boletiqo: give it an idea and it runs the company, a team of AI agents (CEO, CTO, CMO, CFO + specialists) that plan, ship, sell, and close all the way to revenue. Red Bull Basement ’26 national top 10, built on Anthropic MCP.
Ad-on-Wheels: full-stack marketplace pairing brands with car owners who display ads on their vehicles (bachelor thesis, MFF UK).
LockIn: accountability app for iOS, still in development. Lock the apps that distract you, with friends approving every unlock.
Talent Scout: Apify Actor that automates recruiter sourcing. It scrapes Google, LinkedIn and GitHub against a job description and ranks candidates with an LLM.
RISC-V OS kernel: three-person MFF UK project built bottom-up (allocator, scheduler, interrupts, virtual memory, syscalls, and a multi-process userspace).
Event Inventory Manager: warehouse and event-planning tool that replaced an Excel workflow, with an AI chatbot for fast inventory queries.

Some of our events

FinTechers Hackathon ’26 (Prague, 19 to 20 October 2026), with Jakub: Track 3, “Securing the agentic bank”, set by Mastercard and AWS. They built AirGap Mandates, a security layer that stops a bank’s AI payment agent from being hijacked. The agent can only propose payments, a separate executor checks the facts itself, and a person confirms on a Trezor hardware screen that a hacked laptop can’t fake. Two days without sleep.
SF Tech Week (a16z, San Francisco, October 2026): his first time in the US. A week of founder and investor events, from a founders’ picnic in Alamo Square to a yacht party on the Bay.
Cursor Hackathon Prague (Cursor × SpaceXAI, Prague, September 2026), with Jakub: an afternoon hackathon at Productboard. They built an AI grandson that calls Grandpa, remembers every conversation and turns his stories into a family archive.
Prague Builder Day (Duvo × Anthropic, Prague, June 2026), with Jakub: a one-day AI hackathon. They built Grant Ops, an agent that checks research-grant expenses against the funder’s rulebook and flags what an auditor would claw back.
Red Bull Basement ’26 (Brno, May 2026), with Jakub: Czech national top 10. Pitched Boletiqo at the national final to about 80 people and a jury of Gabor Boros, Pavlína Louženská, Karolína Veis and Petr Potměšil.
Apify Hackathon ’26 (January 2026): co-built Talent Scout, an Apify Actor that sources and ranks candidates with an LLM.

Experience

Kreedl, software engineer (January to June 2026): six months inside an operating AI startup, together with Jakub.
Big Agency, Bratislava, event manager on contract (2022–2024): corporate events, family days and teambuildings. Delivered 100+ events and led a team of 10+ people.

Education

Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (MFF UK): Computer Science, specialization Programming and Software Development (2023 to present)
Gymnázium Ladislava Novomeského, grammar school, Bratislava (2015–2023)

Awards & programs

Red Bull Basement ’26: Czech Republic national top 10 (Brno final), with Jakub Dvořák
BUDETO startup studio: 2026 batch, with Zoplio
Podnikni to!: Charles University entrepreneurship program