Marius Gerome

Building my foundation today, and Gerome for life. The brand will span studio work, architecture, apparel, a foundation, and a frontier lab — but right now, most of it is groundwork. This is where I document the journey.

I'm a student, building my foundation.

I study webdesign and spend most of the rest of my time on the stack around it: servers, self-hosting, AI. Local LLMs especially — once one is set up, you've got a computer quietly working for you in the background. No monthly costs spiraling, no restrictions, an absurd amount of automation suddenly within reach.

Since 2021, I've been building my digital foundation around all of this. Data management, workflows, self-hosted tools (Anytype, my own email setup, Immich, my own websites), and the smaller stuff most people skip — file naming, compression habits, the systems beneath the systems. Then the bigger questions on top: what do I actually want, and how do I get there?

I know the cliché — people get lost in their own setup forever — and yes, there's real procrastination in here. But the foundation is genuinely strong now. Strong enough to pitch to other people, because almost everyone I'd want to work with deals with data and software, and almost no one has built a base for it.

What I want now is to come out of the cave. Upload stuff. Walk up to people with excitement. Make videos. Share what I know.

Gerome is my life-time project.

Gerome is the brand I want to spend my life building. Right now it splits into five sub-brands, and even when the names shift, these themes keep coming back whenever I picture the version of the future I want to work on.

Studio takes everything I've learned and applies it to other people — bigger, deeper packages for select clients, lighter ones for individuals. It also runs marketing and execution for the rest of the brand.

Architecture is about rethinking how we live and build. It starts small — furniture, 3D printing, the principles I think are worth caring about — and grows into a community thinking together about housing, communes, alternative ways to gather. Eventually that means designing and building real things, for real people. Long-term, the plan stretches further: a system that lets others design and build with it themselves, while Gerome focuses on what's underneath.

Apparel is the easy one to describe: solid essentials, built to pair effortlessly with the great brands you already wear. Open to collabs with people doing cool work.

Foundation is the part I care about most. An organisation, not a company — built to actually move things in the world. That's also why I want to travel: to find what's broken, sit down with the people closest to it, talk with experts, and put together a real picture before deciding where help should go. Educational, hands-on, transparent about where money flows and what it changes.

Frontier is the lab. A signal to curious, sharp people that there's a place pushing new things forward — funded by the Foundation, supported by a community that helps research and contribute. The home for whatever comes next.

Coming up: vlogs & documentations.

I want to make series — one per project, mostly solo. Gravel bike trips through Europe are part of the plan: a slow way to actually arrive somewhere, meet the people there, and document what I find. Everything will be in English first. The website will go multilingual over time — and the moment YouTube lets me upload custom audio tracks, I'll record German dubs myself.

Until then, you can find me here: