About
Two operators who build what they advise on.
qubit is a partnership of two firms, Sapphire Advisory and Ikigai AI Ventures, based in Sydney. Both of us trained at McKinsey and coach senior people, and both of us build and run AI agents on our own companies every day.

Lucas Zhu
Co-founder · Agentic engineer & operator
Runs Ikigai AI Ventures, his agentic engineering & venture-building studio, and built Frollie OS, the system the FMCG company Frollie now runs on, largely solo in about 60 days by directing a swarm of AI agents. Open-sourced the tooling, spoke at Sydney's AI Mini-Con, and writes it all up in the open.
Ikigai AI Ventures · ex-McKinsey · HelloFresh ANZ, Dir. Strategy ($1B+ business)

Nick Pinidiya
Co-founder · Investor, academic & builder
Runs Sapphire Advisory, his advisory firm, and teaches AI to executives as guest faculty at AGSM (UNSW); currently works at ARENA, while building and shipping his own agentic products, ClimatePulse among them. Oxford-trained.
Sapphire Advisory · ex-McKinsey · Oxford · AGSM (UNSW) guest faculty · ARENA