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AI Consultant for Research and Strategy, AI Competency Centre

Dominik Lukeš

Researcher, educator, writer and translator.

Dominik is an AI Consultant for Research and Strategy at the AI Competency Centre, University of Oxford. He works on AI in education, builds apps and agent skills, and has worked in computational linguistics since the 1990s.

Upcoming talkAI Thought Exchange, October meetingTue 20 Oct 2026 · 09:00–10:20 BST · Online

Dominik Lukeš on stage at Bett 2025, pointing up towards a large slide whose visible text includes “evaluate the results”

What I do

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Make

  • Apps

    Desktop and web apps Dominik has built for writing, presenting, reading and teaching.

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  • Agents

    Agent skills and workflow write-ups for people who work with coding agents.

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  • Webs

    Every site Dominik has made, with a one-line description.

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Write

  • Writing

    Essays, blog posts, papers, translations, and journalism from Czech and English press, browsable by type.

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Research and resources

  • Research

    Research on linguistics, metaphor, discourse and AI in education, with full text where the rights allow.

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  • Academic productivity

    Guides and methods for learning, reading and writing as an academic, starting with the Guide to Deliberate Practice.

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  • Resources

    Guides, frameworks, handouts and explainers that anyone can use on their own.

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Speak, teach and advise

  • Speaking

    Talks, webinars, podcasts and workshops, with dates, recordings and slides.

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  • Teaching

    Courses and workshops on AI, learning technology and language teaching.

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  • Consulting

    What Dominik offers organisations on AI in education and research.

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Selected work

A few things to start with.

  1. TalkWeaver editing a talk outline on the left, with the slides it makes on the right
    App

    TalkWeaver

    Write a talk as an outline, then present it as a single HTML file you can share or publish.

    App details
  2. Highlight Scout searching reading highlights for the word connectionism
    App

    Highlight Scout

    Highlight Scout searches your reading highlights from Readwise, Zotero, Kindle and CSV or JSON files, by keyword or by meaning, on your own machine.

    App details
  3. Skill

    Academic paper review

    A skill for structured review of academic papers, with templates and scoring rubrics you can adapt.

    See the skill on GitHub
  4. Agents

    Global agent instructions

    One set of instructions kept in sync across machines and AI coding tools.

    See them on GitHub
  5. Workshop

    Learning and communicating about AI with metaphors

    A workshop for Ministry of Justice staff, January 2025, on how metaphors help and mislead when we talk about AI.

    Consulting
  6. Writing

    We've been using AI wrong

    Agent Skills and the Semantic Powers of LLMs, in the Schemas & Propositions newsletter.

    Read the essay

Guides

8 guides

Free, interactive guides to learning, reading and writing.

All guides

Apps and tools

11 apps and tools

Desktop and web apps Dominik builds.

All apps
  • Screenshot of TalkWeaver
    App

    TalkWeaver

    Outline-first desktop app for writing talks and presenting them as self-contained HTML decks.

  • App

    WriteFlex

    Markdown writing app for long pieces, organised into Folios, where an AI agent proposes edits and you accept them.

  • Screenshot of Highlight Scout
    App

    Highlight Scout

    Searches your reading highlights from Readwise, Zotero, Kindle and CSV or JSON files, by keyword or by meaning, locally.

  • App

    SlideWell

    Desktop archive of slides and images from past talks, companion to TalkWeaver.

  • App

    Dev Traffic Control

    Mac app that gathers the requests your coding agents send you (checks, design reviews, questions) in one inbox.

  • App

    LearnWeaver

    Create, organise and share presentations and learning content.

  • App

    TimeFlex

    Interval training app: plan workouts, time them and log them, or just time them.

  • App

    Above The Line

    Interlinear translation explorer and reader for students and teachers.

  • App

    ZoteroLM

    Zotero extension that summarises PDFs with an LLM and stores the summaries as Zotero notes.

  • Tool

    KeyMaster

    Tool for learning and documenting keyboard shortcuts.

Agent work

5 projects

Skills and instructions for AI coding agents.

All agent work
  • Instructions

    Global agent instructions

    One set of instructions kept in sync across machines and AI coding tools.

  • Skill

    readability-skill

    Checks and improves the readability of documents, presentations and web content.

  • Skill

    academic-paper-review

    Structured review of academic papers, with templates and scoring rubrics you can adapt.

  • Skill

    corpus-tools-skill

    Sets up and runs a local corpus-linguistics toolchain for building, annotating and searching corpora.

  • Skill

    sketchengine-skill

    Queries Sketch Engine corpora for word sketches, word lists and keywords.

Writing

8 essays

Essays on AI, language and learning.

All writing

Talks

5 talks

Webinars, talks and a podcast on AI.

All talks

Recent activity

Newest first.

  • AgentsAgent skills

    A catalogue of the public agent skills, searchable by task, with learning paths and install steps.

  • AppsTalkWeaver 0.38

    Public release, with publishing set up inside the app.

  • AppsDev Traffic Control 0.22

    Public release of the Mac app for agent requests.

  • SpeakingVibecoding as pedagogy

    Webinar on transforming learning and teaching through making tools.

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