Hi, I'm Greg Kienast
I make complex systems work together — AI agents, robots, smart homes.
I'm a custom AV and smart-home integrator in the Chicago suburbs with a habit of taking on new hard things. Lately that means building with new approaches to intelligence — and this is where I share what I'm making.
Featured projects
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Autonomous Rover
experimentalA mecanum-wheeled rover built to test one question: can an LLM fuse multiple camera feeds to navigate an indoor space — and skip the usual SLAM and LIDAR stack entirely?
Hyper-Local Lawn Irrigation
activeSoil-moisture and weather sensors in my own yard feed CorTex, which spots the patterns and decides exactly when — and where — to water. Real local data, not regional guesswork.
Latest writing
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I'm obsessed with speed — and right now, in business, I think it's the only thing that matters. Here's why, where it goes wrong, and the one idea that turns raw speed into progress: vector navigation.
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In February, Mark Cuban pronounced software dead. Elon Musk went further. Here's what the headlines miss — and what a small business owner should actually do about it.
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Big companies used to win on structure — more staff, more systems, more room for waste. After a year building AI into my own shop, I'm convinced that edge is eroding.
