Brady Luce
High-agency builder and analyst shipping software end-to-end as a solo founder — including a live iOS app on the App Store — with a quantitative core, a long-term orientation, and a preference for measurable output over abstraction.
Operating on first-principles, long-term orientation, and disciplined execution.
Interests center on engineering (aerospace-leaning), economics and finance, history, theology, and the design of high-leverage systems. Track record spans shipping production software solo, building automation and retrieval systems for real clients, and leading competitive math and athletic teams.
Palantir Meritocracy Fellowship
A highly competitive national fellowship emphasizing analytical reasoning, first-principles thinking, and real-world problem solving over conventional credentialing.
- Intensive seminars with leading thinkers across history, philosophy, science, and technology, paired with direct exposure to how complex institutional and engineering problems are framed and solved.
- Hands-on project work embedded with Palantir teams, contributing to real-world data and software engineering solutions on live problems — not coursework simulations.
- Approaching the fellowship as a problem-discovery environment: prioritizing identification, scoping, and documentation of high-value problems over networking or credential performance.
Building, end to end.
Solo-founder track record across a live App Store product, a full-stack SaaS, production AI retrieval systems, and client automation work.
Theosis
Designed, built, and shipped a live iOS application as the sole developer — owning the entire lifecycle: concept, design, architecture, development, release, and ongoing maintenance. A patristic study engine pairing Scripture with verse-anchored commentary from 85+ Church Fathers, the full daily liturgical cycle, and a deliberate design tone — reverent, ancient, calm — built free and ad-free.
theosisapp.org ↗Full-stack SaaS converting AI chat history into structured Markdown notes. Ran brand, marketing, and outreach end-to-end. Retired deliberately after concluding the product had weak market fit — a call to reallocate effort, not a failure to ship.
Designed and deployed a retrieval-augmented chatbot operating over a 2,000+ hour transcribed audio corpus, enabling natural-language Q&A. Owned backend, frontend, and live operations.
Built automation replacing manual workflows for local business owners: a real-estate parcel data system, a COMEX commodity-price updater, and an automated PDF contract generator.
Leading teams on the court, in the classroom, in the room.
Led the program to the most wins in its history. 1st Team All-District, All-State Honorable Mention, team MVP & Offensive MVP.
Elected president of the math honor society. Placed 5th in Texas in Advanced Mathematics at the TAPPS state tournament.
Founded a theology and apologetics club; hosted monthly debates and guest speakers. Grew membership 40% senior year.
Led officer meetings and faculty relations. Launched a peer-tutoring initiative supporting 30+ students.
Designed a Mars habitat mission plan. Led the data analysis team and earned a distinction for the team presentation.
Selected for the bank’s student advisory board; presented on ethics and local economic issues.
Top 1% testing, self-studied past the curriculum.
Top 10% class rank, Highest Honor Roll every semester, Prestigious Scholar distinction.
Completed a college-credit Latin course, building reading competency in a classical language.
Calculus III — vectors, partial derivatives, multiple integrals, Green's, Stokes', and the Divergence theorems.
Let's build something.
Open to conversations on building, fellowships, and anything at the intersection of engineering, economics, and first-principles problem solving.