An umbrella brand for innovators finding winning formulae in the Age of AI
Less of a Company. More of a Cooperative.
The Lossless Group is not a company. It is not a consulting firm. It does not have employees. It does not chase logos.
It is an umbrella brand — a place under which innovators house the consulting, advisory, and building they would otherwise do alone. Think of it as a cooperative: shared identity, shared craft, shared context, but each collaborator keeps their own work and their own voice.
When we are not investing through VC funds, advising tiny startup companies, or eating tacos, we sometimes get asked to consult for large companies. That is the work that ships under this brand.
Friends First
We don't take work from people we don't like. The only constraint to joining is that we have to become friends.
Open by Default
Tools, prompts, blueprints, and explorations live in public repos. The corpus is the product.
Lossless, Not Lossy
We try to encode what we learn so the next person — or the next AI agent — doesn't have to re-derive it.
What We Build
Full gallery →Packages that underpin everything else we ship.
Context Vigilance Kit
Conventions, ingestion scripts, and a local Chroma corpus so agents work from our actual prior work, not training data.
Lossless Flavored Markdown
Our extended-markdown flavor: directives, wikilinks, callouts, citations — normalized across every site we run.
Lossless Agent Skills
The Claude skills that encode how we work: study-repos-first, changelog-conventions, generate-consistent-og-images, and more.
Web development on steroids — specialized for venture capital.
Astro Knots
A family of ~10+ Astro sites built on the same conventions — splash pages, fundraise decks, portfolio sites, plugin landings. The platform under most of our client work.
Spawns client sitesVC Ops and Consulting Ops at the core.
Thought leadership and frameworks we use with leaders navigating the shift.
Experiments, forks, nascent ideas, beautifully abandoned projects.
The People Under the Umbrella
Each person here runs their own practice. The Lossless Group is what we share — context, conventions, code, and the occasional taco.
Michael Staton
Music Editor
Coordinator of The Lossless Group
Tanuj Siripurapu
Creator
Developer @ Lossless Group
Ida Soboleva
Creator
Developer @ Lossless Group
Slava Sobolev
Creator
Developer @ Lossless Group
Sarah Mikenis
Art Director
Art Director @ Lossless Group
Andrea Capera Patino
Collaborator — Backend & DevOps
Supports global entrepreneurs in foundational process, technology stacks, and fundraising. Advanced degree in Machine Learning. Lover of backend development and devops.
Matt Holmes
CEO, Cobuy.io
Planned a career in rock & roll but ended up working in finance in London. Lived with buddies for twelve years and lined a lot of landlords' pockets. Also close to a small dog known as Francis.
Katelyn Donnelly
Managing Partner, Avalanche VC
Katelyn is the Managing Partner of Avalanche VC, and a recovering McKinsey consultant. Avalanche is an early-stage venture firm backing founders pursuing their life's work in massive market shifts.
Harjyot Sahni
Collaborator — HealthTech
Research on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in the emergency department. Developing AI tools to assist with patient care.
Who We're Working With
Beloved Education Brand
Market leader in education technology to unlock opportunities for all students.
Regional FinTech Leader
Market leader in digital payments, point of sale terminals, and merchant services.
Longevity & Healthspan Venture
Emerging manager backing longevity, healthspan, biotech, and consumer health.
Build With Us
Most of what we make is open source. If you want to contribute — or just want to swap notes on how you're working with AI — reach out.
# The only constraint
We need to become friends.
We are not looking for employees — we are looking for collaborators.Recurring Collaborators
People we keep ending up in rooms with.