A Strategic Design Firm & Venture Studio

Founded in 2004, Reluminati is a collaborative network of entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, storytellers & adventurers. In our client work, as well as our venture studio efforts, we combine deep expertise in emerging technology, with an long history of mission impact, to create solutions that are changing how humans live and interact around the world.   

Services

Client Services:

Technology Advisory / Research & Exploration / Strategic Design / Product & Program Development / Deployment Support / Training & Curriculum Creation / Marketing. Communications. Brand Positioning.

Venture Studio Services:

Incubation / Advisory & Mentorship / Strategic Development / Brand Creation & Positioning / Fractional CFO Support / Fundraising Enablement

Client Types

Reluminati supports a wide range of clients as they seek to better understand the ramifications of rapidly emerging technology on their organizations.

Fortune 1000 Companies

Informed by your business objectives, we provide near-horizon advisory services on technical trend. We then adeptly navigate corporate structures and work with teams of all sizes to develop strategic initiatives that enable the integration of emerging technology into your products, services, or marketing campaigns.

Small & Medium Businesses

As a team, we understand the pressures to innovate in small & mid-sized businesses. In some cases, we provide short-term, high-impact strategic design sprints to get you where you need to be. In others we play a longer-term role as an embedded innovation team, helping you stay informed and relevant.

Start-ups/Early Stage

We help start-ups in emerging technology domains identify markets, hone products, tell a big vision story, solidify funding, and everything in between. We have been there before and can help you avoid the pitfalls while accelerating your success.

Venture & Private Equity

Through hands on exploration, we provide a unique lens into rapidly transforming technology domains. We help investors of all types separate the real from the hype as they look to deploy capital. We also support efforts to strategically inject technology into portfolio investments where it will increase enterprise value.

Government

We have a long history of successful advisory, strategic design, and product development efforts with government stakeholders. From municipalities and cities, to working with the National Security community and US Military - we can help your team understand emerging technology's risks and opportunities in a mission context.

NGOs/Universities

In crafting strategies and building solutions for NGOs and University initiatives around the world, we have an intimate understanding of what drives long term, real-world impact and makes human lives better.  We help you navigate the tension between the newest shiny technology and the need for reliable, sustainable solutions in the field.

Zach Lyman

Founder, Managing Partner

Reluminati Founder and Managing Partner Zach Lyman is a serial entrepreneur who has spent over 25 years exploring emerging technology domains and their ramifications on the human experience. 

A world-class sailor, Zach grew up immersed in the marine industry at Lyman-Morse, a renowned boatbuilder on the coast of Maine with a 100-year tradition of craftsmanship and building custom yachts for discerning owners around the world. LM’s skilled craftspeople combine cutting-edge technology with time-tested techniques to create exceptional sailing and motor yachts. In 2005, Zach helped develop Lyman-Morse Technologies, a new division that leverages Lyman-Morse's expertise beyond the sea. Today LMT offers advanced composites, fabrication, and prototyping for a range of industries, commercial partners, and the US Government. Zach’s lifelong love for the ocean has led to many adventures over the years including a global circumnavigation, trans-Atlantic passages, and numerous ocean races.

Fearless curiosity and adventure are also at the heart of Reluminati’s culture. Leveraging Reluminati as a venture studio, Zach founded ZeroBase Energy in 2006 to create flexible, micro-grid energy solutions for those that exist beyond the traditional energy grid. Zach oversaw product development and system deployment across the most remote areas of 5 continents, delivering reliable and affordable renewable energy in the harshest climates. After securing multiple rounds of institutional investment and growing the company sales pipeline to sustainability, Zerobase was acquired by a private equity group in 2009.

For the past four years, Zach has been deeply immersed in understanding the transformative impacts artificial intelligence (A.I.), autonomous systems, and the ever-present nature of data (Ubiquitous Data) are having on societies globally.  These projects have encompassed the entire spectrum of A.I., across a range of domains and modalities. From powerful generative A.I. platforms, to networks of tiny, resource-efficient models operating in constrained environments, explorations are rooted in hands-on project work wherever possible in order to create true insight into A.I.'s rapid evolution.

Previous to Reluminati and Zerobase, Zach was a co-founder of Innovative Charitable Solutions (ICS), a consultancy that created and maintained emerging technologies for non-government organizations, and worked for Frogdesign in San Francisco, a global company that specializes in the fusion of product design, brand, and digital media. In 2005 Zach was winner of the EcoVentures International Environmental Innovation Award and he is a former board member of Groundswell.org, which focuses on providing community solar access for lower income communities in the U.S.

Zach is a graduate of Wesleyan University.