Super-AI, built on your own desk.
AI is becoming the most powerful tool a small team can hold. We use it to make film, run the desk and keep records, and we publish how, so builders own their tools instead of renting them.
The mothership is indispensable. Fourteen doors stay on their own sites. This ship is the one that holds them.
FIRST-PRINCIPLES WORLD MASTER BUILDERS
Seroptics is a Los Angeles production company and the home desk for an independent fleet. Under the camera work sits one idea: builders who start from first principles can make their own tools, reach new places and come back able to teach what they learned.
Read the four pillarsAI is becoming the most powerful tool a small team can hold. We use it to make film, run the desk and keep records, and we publish how, so builders own their tools instead of renting them.
Civilian access to space will turn exploration into something people can join, including starship cruise missions as a form of entertainment. We document that future and prepare for it with craft we can practice now.
Aspiration — not a schedule, prophecy, or ticket sale.
Ideas should not be shut out because a government office or a large company controls the gate. We back open tools, owned reach and plain records so independent builders can keep working.
Every expedition starts on Earth. Water, power, shelter, navigation and first aid are skills a person can learn and test before they are needed.
Field skills are taught for education. They are not a substitute for certified wilderness or first-aid training.
The camera work is how we document all four. The Directory below shows where each desk does its part.
Founder
Anthony R. Perlas
U.S. Veteran · Los Angeles
Photographer, filmmaker and AI builder who founded Seroptics and speaks on first-principles building and AI.
Press & media kit →Talks on first-principles building, AI, space exploration and field skills, for K-12 schools and audiences 18 and over.
Anthony R. Perlas is a U.S. Veteran, photographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, and the founder of Seroptics.
14 cards. Exact titles and apex URLs.
The waitlist is $0 today. The Pass page on this site compares the $497 list with the $97 Founders rate. A content day is a separate hire.
Mars / 10k-year is a direction only. Not a ticket. Not a date. Not a product.
Notes from the desk on building, AI, expeditions and the work behind the camera.
Read the blog →Ask questions and share builds by topic: AI, space and expeditions, building, off-grid skills.
Join the forum →SEROPTICS is the mothership for Anthony Perlas's desks: own your audience, your craft and your time. Its mission is stated plainly. The brightening Sun gives Earth roughly a billion habitable years (solar-model estimate); life may be rare (an open question); so we back builders who push toward a spacefaring civilization, and toward AI that serves that goal. Whether a future superintelligence could carry or restart life elsewhere is speculation, and we label it that way. The Founders Pass is a membership, not securities.
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