About
Luke Chadwick · Berlin
Twenty-five years of shipping software: VR in 2014 and AR in 2016 at REA Group in Melbourne, where I co-founded REALABS; production LLM systems since 2022, for Scout24, AutoScout24 and others. Far Horizons OÜ is the company — Tallinn on paper, Berlin in practice, independent since 2019.
Most of how I think about technology comes from near-term sci-fi — Gibson, Stephenson, Doctorow, Suarez. The reading list is a post.
Miles, English Cocker Spaniel. 58 countries.
2001
Started shipping software for money. Never stopped.
2004
Started the blog at vertis.io.
2012–17
REA Group, Melbourne. Co-founded REALABS in 2014 — brought Matterport 3D scanning, VR and drones into Australian real estate, and measured what they changed.
2018
Went nomad — 58 countries over the following years, most of them with Miles.
2019
Incorporated Far Horizons OÜ in Tallinn. Early engagement: rebuilding an automotive AR capture pipeline in four months after the vendor failed mid-contract.
2022
First LLM systems into production — Scout24, AutoScout24 and other platform teams. Built with the teams, then handed over.
2026
Settled in Berlin. Merged vertis.io into this site.
How I work
I write code with your team
Advice I can't implement myself is just opinion.
You own it when I leave
No dependency by design, and no account manager waiting to upsell.
Small on purpose
One or two clients at a time. You get the person you met.
Remote-first, EU hours
On site when it earns the travel, remote when it doesn't.