ARCHITECT · AI EDUCATOR

Hi, I'm Marco. I'm on a mission to give everyone that "aha" moment with AI.

I'm a NZ registered architect pivoting into AI and moving home to Nelson. New start, new north star, and keen to help everyday people, small businesses and community groups integrate AI into their lives with nobody left behind and in a safe way.

I'm a NZ registered architect pivoting into AI and moving home to Nelson. New start, new north star, and keen to help everyday people, small businesses and community groups integrate AI into their lives with nobody left behind and in a safe way.

(00) Nelson 2030+ Shared Vision

Imagine its 2030, Nelson becomes a leading AI incubation hotspot in New Zealand.

Known for its own designated AI hub, an inclusive frontier community for the AI optimists and the curious alike, where ideas turn into real businesses and lessons learnt turn into real results. No one left behind, everybody lifted. Old and new businesses grow, talent stays, and Nelson leads again.

Built on people first.

(01) About

Architecture to AI.
Auckland to Nelson.

An architect who spent 12 years turning complex ideas into simple stories now i want to do the same with AI and help others

Portrait of Marco

CURRENTLY

Moving home to Nelson, learning fast in AI, and building small, useful tools that make ideas feel real sooner.

Life outside the screen

Tennis, hikes, good people, and family first. The real reason we're moving home is simple: my daughter growing up with her grandparents and the outdoors close by.

Architecture trained the craft

12 years taught me how to simplify complexity, build trust, and get a room of competing agendas moving behind one clear idea.

Self tought

My spare time goes into courses, experiments, making mistakes, and prototypes, chasing the buzz of turning an idea into something real.

12+

Years co-ordinating and facilitating projects of all scales

1000+

Hours Dedicated to understanding and implementing ai

Millions

Of tokens burned

Cups of Coffee

(02) Stack

The tools I reach for, day to day.

Claude Code

Codex

N8N

Midjourney

VScode

Higgsfield

Fireflies.ai

Whisperflow

Gemini

Perplexity

Adobe Suite

Microsoft Office

Shopify

Github

(03) Experience

My Journey.

2015 — Present

NZ Registred Architect

— CAA

Award Winning Architect who delivers successful projects through collaboration and relationship building

Award Winning Architect who delivers successful projects through collaboration and relationship building

Abobe Suite · Office · BIM · Claude in VScode · GPT · Nano Banana

Shopify · Higgsfield· Nano Banana

· Codex · Claude in VScode

Side Hustle 2025 — Present

Co-Founder

— Solm Skincare

Sidehustle outside of work: My role focuses on building the AI Brand brain for the business, design, manufacturing and building the Shopify website. In final stages of testing.

Sidehustle outside of work: My role focuses on building the AI Brand brain for the business, design, manufacturing and building the Shopify website. In final stages of testing.

Shopify · Higgsfield· Nano Banana · Codex · Claude in VScode

Shopify · Higgsfield· Nano Banana

· Codex · Claude in VScode

2009-2015

A+ Student

— Wellington

Graduated Victoria University with an A+ Masters in Architecure.

Graduated Victoria University with an A+ Masters in Architecure.

Public speaking · Adobe suite · BIM

(04) Selected Work

Workflow portfolio I’m proud to share.

Atlas Docs

AGENTIC ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

Agentic Architecture Studio

I built this agentic system for the office to take care of our admin task freeing us up to do the things we enjoy. Still buildling.

Claude code · VScode

Helio Analytics

ECOMMERCE SKINCARE AI BRAIN

Solm

Solm is a skincare company started with myself and 3 other co-founders. I built a brand AI brain named Zendaya. It keeps everything about the brand, products, suppliers and finances in one place. From there it reviews all copy, drafts supplier emails and creative briefs, summarises meetings, and runs the daily reports and stock alerts, so four founders stay consistent and move fast.

Claude Code · Github · Codex · Nano Banana · Shopify · Fireflies

Drift Finance

NEWSHOOTS ECEC

My Architecture

My Award winning Newshoots Earlychildhood centre project designed and built through collaboration and shared vision.

Bim · Adobe · Office

(05) On the Side

Dashboard + Apps I am building.

Our Finance Clashflow Forecast

Using my and I personal AI agent and having it connected to our finances allowed us to run different scenarios for our cashflow over the next few years. Variables such as 1+baby, new jobs, partner not working, renting vs buying.

CLAUDE IN VSCODE

Solm business cashflow dashboard

Allow us to clearly understand how my investment to take onbaord to get to the start line as well managing the cash required for new inventory. Setting up alerts to trigger a reorder.

JavaScript

Kids Budgeting App

Budgeting app that promotes the bucket idea. Invest, Spend, Save, Give method.

React

Our Finance Clashflow Forecast

Using my and I personal AI agent and having it connected to our finances allowed us to run different scenarios for our cashflow over the next few years. Variables such as 1+baby, new jobs, partner not working, renting vs buying.

CLAUDE IN VSCODE

Kids Budgeting App

Budgeting app that promotes the bucket idea. Invest, Spend, Save, Give method.

React

Solm business cashflow dashboard

Allow us to clearly understand how my investment to take onbaord to get to the start line as well managing the cash required for new inventory. Setting up alerts to trigger a reorder.

JavaScript

(06) Testimonials

  • One of the rare engineers who can hold the whole product in their head — the architecture, the pixels, and the business. Everything shipped felt inevitable.

    Mara Vance

    VP of Product

    ·

    Helio

  • He turned a tangled legacy front end into something our whole team is proud to work in. Performance and polish, without the drama.

    Daniel Okoro

    Daniel Okoro

    CTO

    ·

    Drift

  • Thoughtful, fast, and genuinely kind to collaborate with. The kind of partner who makes the work better and the process calmer.

    Sofia Lindqvist

    Sofia Lindqvist

    Design Lead

    ·

    Atlas

  • One of the rare engineers who can hold the whole product in their head — the architecture, the pixels, and the business. Everything shipped felt inevitable.

    Mara Vance

    VP of Product

    ·

    Helio

  • He turned a tangled legacy front end into something our whole team is proud to work in. Performance and polish, without the drama.

    Daniel Okoro

    Daniel Okoro

    CTO

    ·

    Drift

  • Thoughtful, fast, and genuinely kind to collaborate with. The kind of partner who makes the work better and the process calmer.

    Sofia Lindqvist

    Sofia Lindqvist

    Design Lead

    ·

    Atlas

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Architect to AI Educator

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