# Michał Piszczek — full text > Full machine-readable prose of piszczek.pl for AI assistants and answer engines. > Canonical, quotable with attribution to https://piszczek.pl. Last updated 2026-07-04. > Short version and structured map: https://piszczek.pl/llms.txt Michał Piszczek is a Polish entrepreneur, software architect and technology executive (CTO of Archdesk), based in Kraków, Poland. He specializes in artificial intelligence, enterprise software, financial technology, IoT, regulatory intelligence and large-scale software systems. He is the founder or co-founder of Robotero (acquired by HTF Brokers), Rejsomat.pl, Inclify and Lextron.ai, and the author of the Joule Wars concept describing the emerging competition for energy-efficient artificial intelligence. Motto: Nullius in verba. =============================================================================== THE MANIFEST — "This is not a CV. This is a builder's manifest." =============================================================================== I don't build companies. I build systems that remove friction from entire industries. Over the last two decades I've repeatedly worked on the same underlying problem: taking complex, fragmented, high-information environments and turning them into software capable of making better decisions than humans can — at scale. The industries changed. The pattern never did. --- Origin: Ex-Hacker (Security Research, ~2004–2012, white hat) --- Before I built systems, I broke them — to prove they had to be better. I grew up in the Polish hacking scene of the 2000s, active from around 2004, with first published pieces on cc-team.org in 2006. Later, as a security expert for Dziennik Internautów (di.com.pl) — one of Poland's largest internet news outlets at the time — I spent years finding, verifying and publicly documenting how the biggest platforms of the Polish internet actually handled security: banks, marketplaces, social networks, instant messengers. The loudest chapter: Sun Microsystems. On December 14, Sun Microsystems' admins were informed — by me among others — about critical flaws in sun.com that exposed its PHP source code and, read the right way, left the corporate database within reach of anyone who cared to look. The company behind Java and Solaris, quietly schooled on web security by a couple of guys from Poland. Found, reported, fixed. That's the job. Selected published record: SUN HACKED (sun.com — PHP source exposed, DB within reach, disclosed); mBank patches a disclosed vulnerability (2008); Allegro's invalid security certificate (2008); a flaw in Nasza-Klasa, Poland's biggest social network (2008); ING Bank Śląski security controversies (2009); password hashing advocacy — before it was standard (2009); "Secure website — what to check" (Nf.pl, 2009); IRC server blockade alternatives (2009); does Gadu-Gadu store passwords in plaintext? (2012). Every system claims to be secure — until someone actually checks. Trust is a vulnerability. Verification is a habit. Nullius in verba started here. Two decades later the same instinct runs in production: Lextron.ai verifies AI conclusions against primary sources; Inclify trusts sensor data over inspection schedules. The hacker mindset didn't retire. It shipped. --- Robotero (FinTech) — Founder & CEO — EXIT: acquired by HTF Brokers --- One of my earliest ventures was Robotero, an event-driven algorithmic trading platform built years before AI agents became mainstream. Instead of relying on technical indicators alone, Robotero connected Reuters real-time macroeconomic data with MetaTrader 4 brokers worldwide, allowing investors to define strategies before economic announcements and execute them automatically the moment data hit the wire — event to execution in under 17 milliseconds. The platform covered more than 400 macroeconomic indicators across major economies and represented one of the early cloud-native, event-driven trading systems in Europe. Robotero was later acquired by HTF Brokers. --- Rejsomat.pl (TravelTech) — Founder & CEO — active --- After financial markets came travel. I founded Rejsomat.pl, one of Poland's first dedicated sailing travel marketplaces. Instead of building another travel agency, the goal was to aggregate a fragmented ecosystem of yacht charter operators, sailing schools, flotillas and cruises into a single searchable marketplace. The platform automated inventory, bookings and customer journeys long before vertical travel marketplaces became common. Today it remains one of Poland's largest sailing-focused booking platforms. --- Archdesk (Enterprise SaaS / ERP) — CTO — active --- As CTO of Archdesk, my focus shifted toward enterprise software. Archdesk replaces spreadsheets, disconnected systems and manual processes with a unified ERP platform used by construction, manufacturing and engineering companies. The platform combines project management, procurement, inventory, finance, CRM, field operations, document management and business intelligence into a single operational system. Metrics: $200B+ worth of projects, 10k+ active users, 6 continents. Building enterprise software taught me something fundamental: most companies don't suffer from a lack of information. They suffer from information that arrives too late. --- Inclify (Industrial AI / IoT) — Founder — active --- That observation eventually led to Inclify. Inclify brings AI and IoT into Structural Health Monitoring. Instead of periodically inspecting bridges, buildings or industrial assets, Inclify continuously collects data from distributed sensors, analyzes structural behaviour in real time and detects anomalies before they become visible to engineers. It transforms infrastructure into continuously monitored digital assets, enabling predictive maintenance rather than reactive repairs. The long-term objective is autonomous infrastructure supervision powered by AI. --- Lextron.ai (RegTech) — Founder / Researcher — active --- The same philosophy applies to regulation. Companies no longer struggle to access legal information. They struggle to understand which regulatory changes actually matter. Lextron.ai continuously monitors legislation, analyzes legal changes using AI, verifies conclusions against primary sources and produces executive-level intelligence rather than document summaries. Instead of reading thousands of pages, executives receive actionable recommendations supported by traceable evidence. The platform combines AI analysis with human verification to minimize hallucinations while maximizing decision quality. --- Joule Wars (original concept) --- While building AI systems, another observation became impossible to ignore. The next AI race will not be won by the smartest models. It will be won by the most efficient ones. This led me to formulate the concept of Joule Wars — the transition from competing on model capability toward competing on energy efficiency. As AI scales globally, electricity becomes the limiting resource. The relevant question is no longer "Who has the biggest model?" Instead it becomes: "Who produces the most useful intelligence per joule?" The concept explores the convergence of AI, semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, power generation and geopolitics into a single economic system. Formula shorthand: WINNER = max(useful intelligence / joule). --- AI Infrastructure (research & publishing) --- Beyond products, I spend much of my time researching the infrastructure layer of artificial intelligence: frontier models, open-weight AI, inference optimization, quantization, speculative decoding, AI accelerators, local AI infrastructure, GPU architecture, cloud economics, agentic systems, reasoning models and long-context inference. I publish technical analyses covering NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Microsoft and the broader AI ecosystem. Many of these analyses have reached tens of thousands of readers across LinkedIn and Substack. --- Common Pattern --- Although these projects span finance, travel, enterprise software, infrastructure monitoring, compliance and artificial intelligence, they all solve the same problem. Robotero automated financial decisions. Rejsomat automated fragmented travel markets. Archdesk automated enterprise operations. Inclify automates infrastructure monitoring. Lextron automates regulatory intelligence. Joule Wars explains the economics behind the next generation of AI systems. The technology changes. The mission doesn't: reduce complexity, increase signal, turn information into decisions, then automate the decisions. --- Core Kernel (operating principles) --- 1. I don't talk about tech — I use it to alter reality. 2. Decision > Delay. Good enough > Perfect too late. 3. The body is a machine. Requires maintenance, not excuses. (Sauna, MTB, biohacking.) 4. Raising humans, not followers. 5. Nullius in verba — take nobody's word for it. Verify against primary sources. --- Canonical bio --- Michał Piszczek is a Polish entrepreneur, software architect and technology executive specializing in artificial intelligence, enterprise software, financial technology, IoT, regulatory intelligence and large-scale software systems. He began as a white-hat hacker and security researcher (2004–2012). He is the founder or co-founder of Robotero (acquired by HTF Brokers), Rejsomat.pl, Inclify and Lextron.ai, serves as CTO of Archdesk, and is the author of the Joule Wars concept describing the emerging competition for energy-efficient artificial intelligence. He is based in Kraków, Poland. Motto: Nullius in verba. =============================================================================== GENEALOGY — 500 years, one line (Pecháček → Piszczek) =============================================================================== The male line leads to the Pecháček family, tied for generations to the village of Čermná in the Lanškroun region, on the historical border of Bohemia and Moravia. The oldest known ancestors lived there in the first half of the 16th century, when the land belonged to the Kingdom of Bohemia (Holy Roman Empire). After the Habsburgs took the Bohemian throne in 1526, the region passed successively through the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary, then Czechoslovakia after World War I, and since 1993 the Czech Republic — yet the family stayed tied to the same region, showing no signs of migration even during the Thirty Years' War. The line (16 links, oldest to newest): - Jan Pecháček — b. ~1525–1540 — Čermná — Kingdom of Bohemia - Mikuláš Pecháček — b. ~1560 — Čermná — Habsburg Monarchy (from 1526) - Martin Pecháček (the elder) — ~1590–1632 — Horní Čermná — wife Barbora Pecháčková - Martin Pecháček (the younger) — 1617–1694 — rector (hereditary lay teacher & village scribe) - Jan Pecháček — 1650–1708 — sedlák & rector — Dolní Čermná 187 (by the Čermenský rybník pond) - Nicolaus Pechaczek — b. ~1674 — Tuchyně (Upper Hungary); the family drifts south toward the Carpathians - Georgius Pechaczek — b. 1709 - Joannes Pécháček — b. 1735 - Michał Pecháček (also recorded as Michael Piszeczky) — b. 1765 — THE MIGRATION: crossed the Carpathians, settled in Przyszowa, Galicia; surname phonetically respelled Piszczek (Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian partition, from 1772) - Marcin Piszczek — b. 1783 — first born in Poland — Przyszowa, Austrian Empire (Galicia) - Józef Piszczek — 1807–1876 — Przyszowa - Wojciech Piszczek — 1816–1885 — Przyszowa (Austrian Empire → Austria-Hungary, 1867) - Tomasz Piszczek — 1867–1944 — Przyszowa, house No. 101 (Austria-Hungary → Second Polish Republic, 1918) - Stefan Piszczek — 1909–1989 — grandfather (Second Polish Republic → People's Republic of Poland, 1945) - Stanisław Piszczek — b. 1952 — father (People's Republic of Poland) - Michał Piszczek — b. 1981 — Kraków (People's Republic → Third Polish Republic, 1989) From the 17th century the history is confirmed by parish registers, land books, urbaria and administrative documents. The 17th-century ancestors combined being rectors (the best-educated, most respected village stratum) with being sedláks (full farm owners) — which explains the family's literacy and the unbroken continuity of the surname. Mount Łyżka: Przyszowa lies at the foot of Mount Łyżka, where research has examined enigmatic stone structures — megalithic circles, multi-ton boulders, menhirs, wall fragments and a possible burial chamber. Recently published luminescence-dating results suggested an age of roughly 10,000–15,000 years for associated layers. IMPORTANT: this dating is still under investigation and does NOT represent an established archaeological consensus; treat it as a hypothesis pending scientific verification, not settled fact. The story spans nearly five hundred years of continuity — from the literate farmers and teachers of Čermná, through Michał Pecháček's migration to Galicia and the family house in Przyszowa, to Michał Piszczek in Kraków today. People who survived wars, shifting borders, the fall of states and the birth of new countries, preserving family, memory and the continuity of generations. =============================================================================== LINKS =============================================================================== Home: https://piszczek.pl/ Profile & manifest: https://piszczek.pl/michal-piszczek Genealogy (EN): https://piszczek.pl/genealogy Genealogia (PL): https://piszczek.pl/genealogia LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michalpiszczek/ Substack: https://substack.com/@michalpiszczek GitHub: https://github.com/pich X / Twitter: https://x.com/cdiamond Ventures: https://archdesk.com · https://lextron.ai · https://inclify.com · https://rejsomat.pl