Danil Gontovnik
Builder of consumer AI. Co-Founder & CTO of RHISE AI.
Building technology that gives people their lives back.
Technology has become incredibly good at capturing attention. I believe it can become equally good at giving attention, time, and clarity back. That belief became RHISE AI, the company I co-founded. And Lucie, its first expression: an ethical AI Life OS designed to give people their lives back.
I got my first computer at six and wanted to change the games, not just play them. That itch became my craft. I open-sourced a set of iOS animation libraries used by thousands of developers, built consumer apps with hundreds of thousands of users, and spent time as an engineer at Meta.
As a founder, I was technical co-founder and CTO of Anima AI, an AI companion, and Noji, a learning app, both bootstrapped to scale and acquired.
After two exits, I wanted to apply that same craft to a different goal: technology that helps people flourish instead of keeping them hooked. You can find me on LinkedIn and GitHub.
The best technology disappears.
Most AI demands more attention. I want to build AI that quietly helps you live your life and then gets out of the way.
One intelligence for your energy,
your time, and your attention.
Building
Why I'm building Lucie →
Context. Memory. Orchestration. Privacy.
The systems required for AI to truly understand a human life.
The Engineers of Abundance
I spent a decade learning how to build software people use. Then I met people asking a bigger question: how do we use AI to help humanity flourish?
Track record
Shipped products, real users, exits, and open source adopted by the community.
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Notes on building consumer AI people love, iOS and AI engineering, and giving people their time back.
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Talks on building consumer AI, scaling mobile from zero to millions, AI orchestration and memory, privacy-first architecture, and engineering culture.
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