Oliver Vesterstrøm

I started Vesterstrøm Labs because I believe the most important variable in humanity's future isn't which AI lab wins — it's whether humans remain formidable enough to thrive alongside an alien intelligence.

I've been obsessed with understanding and building new things since I was a kid. The bottleneck was always the same: how fast I could learn. So how does one learn as effectively as possible? In other words, how do you streamline the neuroscientific process of learning? The infrastructure simply didn't exist. So I started building it. That became VINCI.

Under the hood, VINCI runs on an adaptive engine that tracks how you actually think — not what you get right or wrong, but how your understanding forms, where it breaks, and what causes genuine breakthroughs. The more interactions it observes, the more it discovers about human cognition that couldn't have been predicted from theory alone. It has to be empirically discovered.

That realization led to more questions. If you can map how an individual learns, can you map how they make decisions? And if you can map how individuals decide, can you map how organizations — made up of those individuals — actually function? That's where Athena and Mimir came from.

That's what Vesterstrøm Labs is building. Not productivity tools. Not EdTech. Infrastructure for human agency in the intelligence age — by building systems that make people learn deeper, decide sharper, and understand themselves and their organizations in ways that weren't possible before.

Oliver Vesterstrøm · Copenhagen, Denmark