Liminal Consulting · David Rug

Simplify your life, amplify your impact.

I build you your own AI-powered digital home: one app that holds your whole operation, built for you, owned by you. Not another subscription you rent — software that behaves like you, that you can always take with you.

David Rug

What I actually do

AI is a once-in-a-generation shift — but most people can't benefit from it, because their digital life is scattered across a dozen tools owned by someone else. Two simple moves put you among the winners of this revolution: first we simplify your life, then we amplify your impact.

Simplify your life

Your work is scattered across a dozen tools that don't talk to each other — website, scheduling, files, inbox, last year's automation — and every new service makes you a little more dependent. The first step simplifies all of it into one custom app: your own digital home, built around how you work, that genuinely belongs to you.

Scattered strands gathering into a single point of light
A unified base launching upward, amplified

Amplify your impact

On that simplified base, real AI finally becomes usable — AI that knows what you know, working inside your own system. Custom agents and workflows take the thousand small tasks off your hands: sorting, drafting, reminding, triaging. That's where the amplification happens — not AI bolted onto chaos, but AI grounded in something you own and understand.

Ready to level up?

Simplified, then amplified: one app that holds your operation, real AI working inside it, and a stack you own outright — self-hostable, documented, no lock-in. The point isn't to make life faster; it's to give the hours back, for the work that actually matters.

The full field — unified and amplified, coming together

What you get

How it works
  • One app that holds your whole operation — site, scheduling, files, messages, the daily admin — instead of a dozen disconnected tools.
  • AI built in exactly where it earns its keep: taking the small repetitive tasks off your hands so the hours come back to you.
  • Built around how you actually work, not a template you're forced to bend into.
  • Yours to keep: your data, your code, self-hostable, cleanly handover-able. No lock-in, ever — that's written into how it's built, not buried in fine print.
  • One person who knows the whole system end to end, builds it, runs it, and is reachable when something matters.

"David's work is remarkable for its clarity… he is able to work with extremely abstract and complex ideas and then bring them into forms that greatly help with intuitive understanding."
— Zak Stein — Co-founder, Civilization Research Institute & The Consilience Project

Selected work

A few things I've built — from AI systems in production to cross-platform apps and expressive frontends.

Unified dashboard for a school (AI integrations)

Unified dashboard for a school (AI integrations)

Cross-platform PWA that unifies a school's internal processes as channels. Invoices parsed by a multimodal LLM (vision — well beyond OCR) and auto-categorised into Google Drive; email client with LLM triage; chat with voice-message transcription. Built for a paying client.

InterBrain — open-source RAG & knowledge system

InterBrain — open-source RAG & knowledge system

My crowdfunded open-source project: a communication and knowledge system that treats ideas as Git repositories. LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, and RAG with local embedding models. The flagship of my AI-native development, built daily for over a year.

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GDPR-compliant AI voicemail with triage

GDPR-compliant AI voicemail with triage

AI-driven call handling for a medical practice: voice messages are transcribed and automatically classified by intent (prescription, appointment, results). Privacy-compliant via local open-source models — sensitive patient data never leaves the practice's own infrastructure.

AI consulting dashboard (my own operating system)

AI consulting dashboard (my own operating system)

The cross-platform PWA I run my whole consulting practice on: clients, projects, rhythm, finances — unified in one surface. Built-in chat with automatic voice-message transcription. Streamlines communication along internal processes.

Love Resilience — physical card deck as a 3D web app

Love Resilience — physical card deck as a 3D web app

A coaching client created a physical card deck; I turned it into an interactive 3D web experience — a digital onboarding and trial of the deck. Bilingual (EN/DE), finely crafted. The digital translation of a physical product into an accessible, immersive form.

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Festival website + AI agent for team coordination

Festival website + AI agent for team coordination

A multilingual, animated website (EN/PT/FR) for a music festival, with ticketing. For internal team planning and coordination I also built an AI agent as a Telegram bot. Range from expressive frontend to practical AI-agent automation.


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