Lorenzo’s Portfolio — watch, explore and read
Interactive experience by Lorenzo Colombani
The Workshop — Garage
A garage of ideas. Explore the workbench, meet the companion and open projects from the displays.
Interactive experience by Lorenzo Colombani
The Workshop — Seaside
A portfolio you walk into: a real-time 3D pavilion over the ocean, where the work sits on a table and opens when you touch it. Drag to look around, touch an object to use it. Still being built — shown as it renders today.
The collection
Made to be experienced
Enter a world. Try a tool. Follow an idea.
Interactive experience
A portfolio you walk into: a real-time 3D pavilion over the ocean, where the work sits on a table and opens when you touch it. Drag to look around, touch an object to use it. Still being built — shown as it…
Interactive experience
A garage of ideas. Explore the workbench, meet the companion and open projects from the displays.
Native app · demo
Claude as a team of named teammates you hire, brief and fence yourself. OpenBots Next v1: bots work in their own folders, search the web, run code, hand work to each other and use your Mac’s apps — every…
Interactive learning
A 14-chapter interactive learning platform — Data Vault architecture, SQL, dbt, EU compliance, Python — with quests, feedback and hands-on exercises. Independent work; for certification and enterprise Data…
Use-case library
A searchable library of 87 real-world AI use cases. I convened the contributors and built the site for the Wharton Alumni AI Studio (an alumni nonprofit) — spotlight rotation, fuzzy search, contributor…
Native app · demo
An app for a lightsaber you can reprogram: every preset, sound and blade on the saber in one place, remixed into a new sound font and written to the hilt. Not released; shown in an 11-minute demo on the real…
Web tool
Unwind. Too many thoughts on your mind? Talk to our AI. It will actively listen to you and help you work through your thoughts without offering unsolicited advice. No clock. Free. Available 24/7.
Web tool
Use this tool to increase your feeling of self-reliance. Focus on accomplishing one meaningful thing each day to build momentum and confidence.
Web tool
An engaging, interactive Star Wars-themed decluttering app offering actionable advice for physical and digital organization. Integrates strategies from Dana K. White's "Decluttering at the Speed of Life" and…
Web tool
Based on groundbreaking scientific research by Kruger, Epley, Parker, and Zhi-Wen Ng, this mini-website turns their world-famous paper on communication illusions into a tangible minigame.
Web tool
Protect your privacy and personal data by using this meta-data erasing webapp. Remove hidden information from your files before sharing.
Web tool
A French webapp teaching iOS basics for seniors: swipe gestures, sending emails, messaging apps, intro to phishing and scamming, and basic troubleshooting.
Web tool
Sometimes we lose great talents because of cultural misunderstanding. This tool takes you on a short, impactful journey to discover why — and how to fix it.
Web tool
Write more impactful sentences. A concise one-pager with practical tips for clearer, more effective written communication.
Web tool
A website explaining what local LLMs are, how they protect your privacy, and easy-to-follow guides for installing the most popular ones on Mac.
Web tool
An interactive tool inspired by Yu-Kai Chou's Octalysis framework from "Actionable Gamification". Design engaging experiences using the 8 Core Drives of human motivation.
Web tool
It's difficult to understand depression from an outsider's perspective. Play this idle game — for fun, or to broaden your horizons. Desktop version functional.
Web tool
Collection of iOS Shortcuts and automation workflows designed to streamline daily tasks and boost productivity.
Web tool
A zero-dependency offline exam pacing timer — banked time, review reserve, session restore. MIT.
Interactive learning
Connect Aristotle’s substance, relations and accidents to Data Vault Hubs, Links and Satellites. Change an object’s colour, location or relationships and watch the database log respond.
TVA Case File
2m 40sInteractive web film
Seven deviations. One timeline. A cinematic case report told through paper, typography and motion.
The Bridge
4m 30sInteractive web film
Seven realms. One continuous journey. Step into an interactive web film about the connections between disciplines.
Video
One tap on a ring opens Claude Code, I talk, another tap sends it, and Claude answers out loud. A skill I wrote makes it answer the way you would say it. No keyboard, no mouse.
Video
A rendered 3D demonstration of how Data Vault loads data: tables materialize from motes, records flow through a transformation gate, and reform as an information mart — with an original procedural score.
Video
A sardonic anthem for anyone who has been told to just smile through it — witty lyrics against an upbeat tune, spotlighting the irony of hollow cheer, in the manner of Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq.
Video
The v1 launch: a team of AI bots on your own Claude plan, and the approval card in front of every consequential step.
Video
SaberLab, the app I built to set up a reprogrammable lightsaber, presented by an unlikely host.
Video
A spoken interface for a command-line AI coding tool: a foot pedal in, spoken replies out — until the pedal lost to the mouse wheel.
Video
The history and philosophy of technology, applied to the fear of AI.
Video
Short videos on everyday design: a mark on a pull cord, a place for everything, the push-pull door.
Aristotle Was a Data Engineer
10 min readArticle
Aristotle's Categories mapped onto Data Vault — substance, relation and accident as Hubs, Links and Satellites. With a companion video and interactive simulation.
Research
Independent study on French negotiation culture, supervised by Stuart Diamond at UPenn Law School.
Research paper
A new tool against GAFAs: Analysis of significant imbalance in commercial contracts.
Research paper
Global and technological stakes of corporate social responsibility.
Research collection
Academic work in philosophy of science and technology.
Research collection
Featuring field experts, lawyers and various stakeholders on AI and human augmentation.
Research paper
Maps the AI Act’s data obligations, article by article, onto Data Vault design decisions: sensitive satellites, where the bias gate sits, which erasure pattern fits, what evidence may survive a deletion. 24…
Article
An AI interviewer assessed my learning-design skills. I ended up coaching it — and wrote down how I would design it instead.
The Sound of a Dead Language
5 min readArticle
How the God of War team found the voice of a world that no longer existed The problem started, as many good problems do, with a question nobody could answer: What does Norse mythology actually sound like? It…
Article
This is AI-generated. Or is it? Picture this: You’re a student. You stayed up until 3 AM writing an essay about the French Revolution. You bled for this paper. You even read primary sources. Your professor…
Article
AI isn’t a miracle wand it’s a collaboration tool. Most companies invest in AI, get pilots running, but still see almost no value. Spoiler: it’s not the tech. They’re using it wrong. People talk about AI as…
Article
You know that feeling when you’re trying to cancel a subscription and the “keep my subscription” button is huge and green while “cancel” is tiny gray text buried at the bottom? Now imagine that, but it’s your…
Article
You’re not just late asking, you’re late thinking about it. A short audio interview. This interview is entirely audio. Discover what the most notorious Fallout Ghoul has to say about AI. The Interview Open…
Article
UX/UI Implementation Report Digital Design and Regulatory Compliance October 2025 By Lorenzo Colombani Executive Summary The Digital Markets Act fundamentally changes how designers must approach interface…
Article
When Fish and Cheese Explain Apple vs. the EU The Swiss Cheese Model 1. What’s going on? 2. A simple explanation of what’s going on and why. 1. What’s going on On September 25, 2025 , Apple urged the European…
Article
Art Imitates Life, and Life Imitates Art Dr. Culber from Star Trek: Discovery, played by: Wilson Cruz In Star Trek: Discovery (S05, Ep06: “Whistlespeak”, released May 2nd, 2024), a character creates a digital…
Audio
In modern day Paris, Socrates meets Emma and Vincent, who have diverging opinions about what "being French" means. A re-imagined Socratic dialogue.
Audio
In an old western saloon, a well-learned cowboy challenges our assumptions about whether AI truly "thinks" — a philosophical journey with René Descartes.
Project
Founded and led a think tank focused on AI governance and human augmentation regulation. Submitted formal recommendations to France's National Ethics Committee and contributed to the Villani Mission on AI.
Research collection
Comprehensive collection of policy analysis work on AI governance, technology regulation, and human augmentation frameworks.
Project note
Launched and lead the Paris OpenAI Forum community — a community role, not employment. First event live within two weeks, cross-industry room.
Project note
Redesigned the firm’s workflows using Lean principles and automated its Qualiopi certification workflow — one task, from a day’s work to minutes.
Project note
Designed and delivered negotiation training programs built on gamification principles, for client teams from startups to large groups — 50+ sessions.