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Luke talks about being wounded in Afghanistan at nineteen, the brutal transition out of the Army, teaching himself to code, and building Clusiv before VetClaims.ai existed.
Luke talks about Clusiv, the VA claims system, VetClaims.ai, C&P exams, using AI to research millions of documents, and the political fight over the company’s future.
Veteran entrepreneurship, leadership, mental health, accountability, AI, scaling companies, and finding a new mission after military service.
Luke returns to the show to talk about shutting down his venture backed startup, what came next, and building VetClaims.ai.
The earlier story. Army Cav Scout, learning to code, building Clusiv, pitching investors and turning an idea into a venture backed company.
The origin of Clusiv, employment barriers facing blind and visually impaired people, entrepreneurship, and building a life rather than waiting for one.
Luke on Clusiv, the accessible e-learning platform he built for blind and visually impaired learners.
Luke on VetClaims.ai and the fight veterans have on their hands when they file for the benefits they earned.
The segment Luke appears on, covering ICE body cameras and the fight to prevent a government shutdown.
A candid conversation about the transition out of military service, why veterans struggle when the structure disappears, and what civilian life often fails to replace.
Luke joins Anthony Ferraro and Dan Mancina to talk about Clusiv, accessibility, employment, and building better opportunities for blind and visually impaired people.
Luke presents Clusiv alongside other fast growth founders and takes investor questions.
Luke explains the problem VetClaims.ai was built to solve and why he believes veterans need a simpler way to navigate disability claims.
Lukas Simianer and Deny Caballero discuss the VA claims process, veteran mental health, and how technology can help veterans navigate systems that were not built to be easy.
Luke sits down with Israel Cazares for the first episode of Clusiv’s podcast series to discuss blindness, opportunity, work, and changing expectations around what blind professionals can do.
The first episode of the stream, and it plays here in full.
Luke explains the problem Clusiv was built to solve and why accessible vocational education matters for blind and partially sighted people.
A conversation about VetClaims.ai, the VA disability system, claim sharks, and the industry that has grown around helping veterans pursue the benefits they earned.
Luke on the VA nexus letter, and what he says a veteran should know before filing one.
Luke on what is changing at the VA in 2026, and what he says actually puts a rated veteran’s check at risk.
Luke on rating reductions in 2026, and what he says stands between a veteran and one.
Independent reporting, founder profiles, institutional recognition and the published record behind the work.
NPR investigates high cost VA claims consulting and talks with Luke about VetClaims.ai’s flat fee alternative.
An investigation into the VA claims industry contrasts companies charging veterans five figure fees with VetClaims.ai’s $1,250 flat fee.
Clusiv’s attempt to close the employment gap for blind and visually impaired people, examined alongside experts on accessibility and workforce development.
Luke joins the Texas Business Hall of Fame’s 2023 honorees with the Brett Wiggs Innovative Leadership Award.
How Luke’s dyslexia helped shape Clusiv as the company began winning pitch competitions and raising its first outside capital.
The early Clusiv story, from an accessibility project with Luke’s blind stepfather to one of Austin’s five startups to watch.
Luke on Clusiv, VetClaims.ai, what happened when Clusiv challenged the existing vocational rehabilitation system, and why he kept building.
A wide-ranging founder profile covering Luke’s path from the Army to Clusiv and VetClaims.ai, including raising $4M for Clusiv, rebuilding after its failure, and the leadership principles he carried into his next companies.
Luke on being wounded in Afghanistan, rebuilding after the Army, and what America still gets wrong about supporting veterans.
WGU Labs invests in Clusiv to expand workforce training and higher education opportunities for blind and visually impaired people.
10 November 2022
Clusiv joins 11 other companies selected for Techstars’ 2021 Workforce Development Accelerator.
Clusiv is named an Angel & Seed finalist in Austin Chamber and SXSW’s annual recognition of the city’s emerging companies.
Luke returns to his alma mater as keynote speaker after going from wounded veteran and WNCC student to technology founder.
Clusiv’s accelerator partner on the company’s push to expand technical training and career opportunities for blind and visually impaired people.
Luke joins blind Clusiv employee Levi Gobin as the 17 year old takes on his second Rugged Maniac obstacle race.
Inside Clusiv’s accessible training model, early fundraising, Techstars selection, and plan to move visually impaired workers into higher value careers.
Clusiv wins the Austin Fast Start Social Impact competition and a $2,500 prize as it prepares to bring its accessible learning platform to market.
A case study on VetClaims.ai growing revenue 67% in 90 days while increasing qualified leads, tripling close rates, and cutting its sales cycle in half.
A panel conversation from Accessibility.com’s 2022 sessions, with Luke on the panel. The session page is the record: no recording of it has been supplied.
Each of these is a story rather than a subject, and each one is checkable on this site.
The Army gave Luke a mission and a structure. Civilian life gave him neither. He was out by twenty-one and, for a time, homeless. The story is not the hardship: it is the handoff, and what a country does with a soldier in the days after the uniform comes off.
Luke’s own tellingLuke pitched investors 185 times before the first yes, for a company built around blind users that most rooms did not understand. Ask him where persistence stops being a virtue, because he has an answer and it is not the motivational one.
The record, with sourcesClusiv built e-learning for blind and low-vision users, and then staffed itself from that community rather than consulting it. That is a hiring strategy with a thesis behind it, and it is a better story than any accessibility feature.
The Clusiv case studyClusiv raised capital, won an innovation award, and closed anyway. Luke has said publicly that it failed and taken responsibility for it, which makes him one of the few founders who do the post mortem on the record instead of calling it a pivot.
The Clusiv case studyLuke argues these are two different things: one is a checklist that passes an audit, the other is whether a blind user can finish the task. It is an argument he can make in plain language, and it puts most corporate accessibility programs on the wrong side of it.
The accessibility studyGoing from a founding team to hundreds of employees breaks the habits that got you there. Luke’s position is that decision-making belongs as close to the problem as possible, and that a founder who is still the answer to everything is the bottleneck.
What he speaks onThere is an industry sitting between a veteran and the benefits they already earned. Luke built a company inside it and will describe how it actually works, including the parts that do not flatter anybody.
How he runs itDon’t know where to start? These produce stories rather than canned expertise.
Every line here either carries a source you can open or says plainly that it is Luke’s own figure. Nothing sits in between.
Enlisted in the U.S. Army at seventeen and deployed to Afghanistan at eighteen. Wounded in combat at nineteen and awarded the Purple Heart. Honorably discharged.
WNCC Western MagazineTexas Business Hall of FameLuke’s service runs approximately 2010 to 2013. The dates are approximate because how the public record reads.
LinkedInVerificationThe unit is unreconciled. Luke’s own telling says Cav Scout, including in the long below; third-party records say paratrooper, 82nd Airborne. Please check with him before putting a unit in an introduction.
E-learning built for blind and low-vision users. Luke pitched 185 investors before the first yes.
WGU Labs, on GlobeNewswireNamed to Built In Austin’s Future 5 of Austin tech.
Built In AustinVerificationPublished accounts of what Clusiv raised differ, and so do the figures elsewhere on this site. Ask Luke for the number rather than lifting one from a profile.
Brett Wiggs Innovative Leader Award, Texas Business Hall of Fame, 2023.
Texas Business Hall of Fame, past recipientsTexas Business Hall of FameSelected for the Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator.
GlobeNewswireNational grand prize winner, Bob Evans Farms Heroes to CEOs contest.
PR NewswireSocial Impact pitch winner, Austin Fast Start, Austin Young Chamber.
Austin Young Chamber, Fast StartSelected for the 2021 Bunker Labs Veterans in Residence cohort in Austin, independently listed by Syracuse University’s IVMF.
Syracuse IVMFVerificationAsk Luke for the exact number.
The full record, grouped and cited line by line, is on the wins page.
Plain ground, no context. The default for a speaker page or a programme.
Suit and tie, for a keynote programme or a federal-facing piece.
Editorial and on tape, where the room is part of the picture.
Not solo portraits. The second person in each is not named here.
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