Mark Laursen

Advisor · Founder · Executive Producer

Based in Portugal

From a Texas Instruments 99 to a Commodore 64, Amiga, and PC, I was writing games and shipping software before most people had internet access. Over the past two and a half decades, I have founded and co-founded more than ten companies across gaming, AI, entertainment, and technology.

My World of Warcraft teams won multiple world championships, including BlizzCon 2008. I competed in top-4 Counter-Strike, co-founded Nihilum, widely regarded as the greatest World of Warcraft guild in history, and built community platforms reaching over 40 million users. I pioneered live streaming technology with Xfire and Dyyno in 2008, years before Twitch existed.

Today I focus on AI applications, gaming ventures, and advising next-generation entertainment experiences. I am currently Executive Producer on multiple game titles, co-founder of Brainjuice Labs and Marathon Variety, and creator of Govyn, an open-source AI agent governance proxy.

25+

Years in tech

40M+

Users reached

10+

Companies built

Acquisitions

Current Ventures

Executive Producer

NC Gaming

Leading production for Ezekiel: Noa and the Automaton Urbis, a third-person shooter RPG set in a steampunk-cyberpunk universe featuring an innovative moral AI system that dynamically shapes narrative outcomes.

Founder & Sole Developer

Govyn

Open-source AI agent governance proxy and commercial SaaS platform (Govyn Cloud). Agents receive scoped proxy tokens only. Policy bypass is architecturally impossible, not conventionally discouraged.

Co-founder

Marathon Variety

Operator-studio for gaming and emerging tech. Co-founded with Amber Sutera in Portugal, 2025. All of my individual engagements (executive producer, advisor, board, fractional) are contracted through Marathon Variety.

Co-founder & Product Lead

Brainjuice Labs

AI tools for game development and SaaS businesses. GameFrame for version-controlled game design, Hangar for cross-platform mini-app deployment, plus a growing catalogue of casual games on Telegram, LINE, STAN, and WeChat.

Advisor & Executive Producer

Botto Entertainment

Collaborating with a talented team to bring Star Thieves to life — a real-time heist card game with simultaneous play, destructible boards, and deep tactical strategy.

Undisclosed

Morning Star

An undisclosed defense project. Details are confidential.

IP Creator

Stealth Company

Original intellectual property developed and licensed to a partner studio for full production. Details under wraps until the official announcement.

Co-Founder & Agent Architecture Lead

Stealth AI Venture

Building managed multi-agent LLM systems for non-technical markets. Designing the core agent construction pipeline grounded in 700+ research sources, with peer-based coordination architectures informed by DyLAN, MAST, and Google's 2025 agent-scaling research.