Raphael Lugmayr
Software,
built to last.
Co-founder of Stoicera Group. Research, ventures, and open source — from Austria.
Entrepreneur · Creator · Builder
Now
What I am working on.
May 2026
- Building
Schulmittag — scaling our school meal platform across Austria.
- Running
Stoicera Group with Sebastian — software at fair prices, free for churches.
- Researching
Cognitive architectures and local-first AI (nerve, NOUS, granit).
- Publishing
Austrian Business Magazine — DACH innovation and capital markets.
About
Software, research, faith — and building things that last.
Who
Software developer and entrepreneur from Upper Austria. Started writing code at thirteen. Still doing it for the same reason — to build things that did not exist yet.
Work
Co-founder of Stoicera Group. Publisher of Austrian Business Magazine. Scaling Schulmittag. Researching cognitive architectures in the open.
Why
My faith shapes how I work — quietly, not as a brand. Honesty, care, and discipline in every line of code. Excellence is a form of worship.
Principles
What I stand for.
- 01
Build for lasting.
Software should outlive the trend that produced it. Decisions are made for the long arc.
- 02
Price fairly, always.
Not the cheapest. Not the most expensive. Honest, with no hidden costs — and free for the people who serve.
- 03
Open by default.
Research belongs to everyone. The work is shared on GitHub so others can build on it.
- 04
Faith over hype.
Anchored in something deeper than the news cycle. The work serves people, not the other way around.
Testimonials
Sehr kompetent, zuverlässig und mit echter Handschlagqualität.
Highly competent, reliable — and his word is his bond.
Prof. Johannes Oppitz
Obmann, EEG Perg
“Building alongside Raphael through Lugmayr & Kern has been exceptional. His commitment to ethics and excellence is genuine — it shows in every decision we make together.”
Co-Founder, LugmayrKern
Portfolio
Ventures
10 / in motion
Stoicera Group
Our main company. State-of-the-art software at fair prices. Free for churches.
Austrian Business
Digital-first magazine covering innovation and capital markets in DACH.
Alpine-X AI
Enterprise AI platform. Secure, scalable, deployed.
LugmayrKern
The regional marketing arm of Stoicera. With Sebastian Kern.
Schulmittag
School meal management platform. Currently scaling across Austria.
ABM for ALL
Free tools and workshops for new founders in Austria.
Covveal
B2B lead intelligence. GDPR-compliant data extraction for sales teams.
Trippin
Community-first travel platform for conscious explorers.
LITUS CMS
Open source headless CMS. Fast and lean.
NOR
Faith-driven fashion. Every piece unique.
Writing
Words
Notes on stoicism, faith, and the work.
Start Again at 1:27 AM
A personal reflection on returning to writing.
Use This and Become Great Overnight
The mindset shift that changes everything.
The Quiet Power of Pausing
Finding clarity through pausing and running.
Git Good: How to Use GitHub to Track Your Habits
Using GitHub for habit tracking and personal growth.
The Stoic Entrepreneur
Stoic philosophy applied to entrepreneurship.
Hope Is Something You Give Yourself
On self-directed motivation and inner strength.
$ Open Source
Research
Long-term work on AI, cognition, and infrastructure.
33 / on GitHub
nerve
Open-source AI coding assistant in Rust. 6 AI providers, 166 expert prompts, a full coding agent with 10 tools — all in one 7.7 MB binary with zero runtime dependencies.
nous
Autonomous cognitive coding agent that runs entirely on your machine. No cloud, no API keys, no telemetry.
granit
Terminal-native personal knowledge management in Go. Standard Markdown with [[wikilinks]] — fully Obsidian and Logseq compatible.
OpenGunter
Autonomous personal AI assistant. 75+ modules and ~14k LOC of Python — persistent memory, hyperdimensional VSA reasoning (PRISM), Bayesian belief revision, swarm intelligence, metacognitive governance, and an archetypal "Viennese Herr Professor" persona. Years of work. Not public yet.
prism
Neural-free cognitive architecture for knowledge reasoning, built from real research papers on Vector Symbolic Architectures. Algebraic operations on high-dimensional vectors — not LLM weights.
forge-ai
Multi-agent orchestrator unifying Claude, Gemini, Antigravity, and Copilot into one autonomous build system.
openwhistle
Self-hosted whistleblower platform for SMEs. Compliant with EU Directive 2019/1937 and the German HinSchG.
bulwark
Real-time threat detection and firewall hardening for open wireless networks. 272 tests passing, Linux-native.
inkdrift
Self-hosted newsletter service. Bring your own SMTP, single binary, SQLite — own your subscriber data.
nerve-chrome
A Liner-alternative Chrome extension — Search, Scholar, Write workspace on top of the AI chat you already pay for.
polyglot-cli
Offline-first research-oriented language learning across 22 languages — SRS, sentence templates, cross-lingual concept graphs.
Questions
FAQ
A few things people ask before we work together.
Yes. Stoicera takes on software, AI, and consulting projects. Reach out at raphael.lugmayr@stoicera.com or +43 660 80 33 119.
TypeScript and Rust for most things. Go and Python where they fit. PostgreSQL, Docker, Hetzner.
Yes — the full service at no cost. Websites, automation, branding, strategy. stoicera.com/kirche.
Linz (Promenade) and Vienna (Messe Prater). Happy to meet in person.
Yes — for people who think long-term. Let's talk.
Get in touch
Let's build something.
Looking for a technology partner? Have a project in mind? I would love to hear from you.