Founder of Alunio · Prime Central London
Louis-FrançoisGeoffrion
I am sixteen and I run Alunio, an AI deal progression engine for estate agents in Prime Central London. This page is about who I am and why I am building it.
Age
Sixteen
Base
Working in the United States, for London
Origin
Québécois + American
Languages
English, French
Company
Alunio
The Story
I started early because I could not think of a reason to wait.
Wired to build
I have been building things for as long as I can remember. Small ventures, trades, systems, ideas I kept going with until they either worked or fell apart. Most of them fell apart. Each one taught me the same thing, which is that an idea is only worth something once it takes a real problem off a real person.
So I stopped looking for clever ideas and started looking for things that were broken. The best problems are usually in plain sight. Everyone can see them, and everyone has decided they are just how things are. That is usually where the opportunity is.
Somewhere I probably should not be standing
The problem I chose
Across the UK, around one in four agreed property sales falls through before completion. Usually a solicitor stopped replying, a mortgage offer lapsed or a survey sat unread, and nobody noticed in time. Months of work and a client's trust are lost over a call that nobody made.
The people losing these deals are some of the best in the world at winning them. The problem is what happens after the handshake, when everyone assumes someone else is watching. I came across that gap from a school desk outside London and kept coming back to it.
Alunio
Alunio checks every live deal in an agency's book every hour, scores each one for delay and breakdown risk, flags the one that has started to drift, and drafts the chase to the party holding it up. The negotiator reads the draft and sends it. Nothing goes out without a person approving it.
I am building it for the boutique agencies of Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Chelsea and Kensington, where one collapse costs tens of thousands of pounds in commission and a relationship that took years to build. The first three firms join as founding partners and deal with me directly.
An infinity room, lit blue
Most of the deals that fall through were visible weeks earlier.
Edinburgh · December 2025
How I work
School runs from 09:36 to 14:35. Alunio gets the hour before it, 08:15 to 09:10, which is early afternoon in London, and another block in the evening after the gym. I work on one thing at a time with no interruptions. Lights out is 22:15, because I make worse decisions when I am tired. I train six days a week.
I try to understand how something works before I change any part of it. Under pressure I tend to push harder rather than pull back. I keep the deadline and cut the scope when I have to.
I grew up between two passports and two languages, Québécois and American, with school years outside London. Today I work from the United States, and all of it is for London. Reading rooms fast is the skill that ties it together. It is also the one that matters most in a market that runs on relationships.
08:15
Alunio starts
09:36
School starts
22:15
Lights out
Operating Principles
Four rules I work by.
Do it, then correct it
I would rather ship something and be told what is wrong with it than plan for months. Most of what I know came from starting before I was ready.
Understand the system first
Working hard inside a bad system gets you nowhere. I try to understand how the whole thing fits together before I put effort into any part of it.
Speak plainly
I talk to the director of a large agency the same way I talk to anyone else, directly and without a pitch voice.
Use numbers that hold up
Every figure I quote has to survive a hard question or it goes. Rounding up is the quickest way to lose a room that knows its own numbers.
Where this goes
In ten years I want Alunio to be the operating system for luxury real estate, starting in London because that is where deals are worth the most and break most easily. The next twelve months are simpler than that. Three founding partners in Prime Central London, each keeping deals they would otherwise have lost.
I write about the build as it happens, including the pitches that did not land and the numbers behind them. If you want to follow along, the links are below. If you run one of these firms, book a call instead.
The Mediterranean
Connect
One inbox, and I read everything myself.
Agents, builders, journalists, or anyone who thinks I have something wrong. I would rather hear the correction.
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