Monsthera is a small digital apartment for a builder who moved from mining engineering into AI. Each project is a plant, each discipline is a room, each visit tends something that was already growing. Everything below is one continuous floor — just keep scrolling.
Many plants. A few cats. Each project is a plant in a room. Work with people in some, curiosities in others. All tended over time — and, from here on, one continuous scroll.
Open pit optimization, scheduling, applied research. Two private plants.
Where the AI work happens. Agents, tools, evals, small inference. Nine plants, four public.
Personal curiosities in health, longevity and self tracking.
The west-facing room of the apartment. Work here concerns open pit mine planning — pit optimization, production scheduling, cut-off strategy and resource estimation. Five plants live on this side: stewardship of the GEOVIA Whittle portfolio, a 3DEXPERIENCE mine planning project, the Ceiba strategic planning framework, and two private software siblings — Ginkgo and Bonsai.
The west-facing room of the apartment. Work here concerns open pit mine planning, pit optimization, production scheduling, cut-off strategy and resource estimation. Five plants live on this side — two stewardship portfolios, one methodology framework, and two private software tools. Most of what happens here connects to peer reviewed articles in the Herbarium.
Application portfolio stewardship of GEOVIA Whittle, the industry standard for strategic open pit mine planning. Product definition, roadmap and technical validation of pit optimization, scheduling and NPV driven strategy at global scale.
Application portfolio work on a cloud-native mine planning solution on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform — pit optimisation, pushback sequencing and scheduling optimisation.
Strategic mine planning analysis framework combining Whittle with Simulia Isight and Process Composer. Applies robust design, Monte Carlo simulation and ML to evaluate production scales, capital investment, practical phase generation and project sequencing — across open pit, block caving and sublevel stoping.
Process integration and design exploration studio. Tools to design, simulate and analyze complex decisions under uncertainty in mining and industrial systems. The software sibling of Ceiba.
Project portfolio planner with roadmap, backlog, analytics and reports. Desktop app that embodies the craft of application portfolio management.
The north-facing room of the apartment. Work here concerns agents, tools, memory, orchestration and small inference — software built with and around AI. Nine plants in total: four on the public shelf, five private and sunlit through the window.
Brighter and more experimental than the mining room. Software written by a builder exploring how agents, persistent memory and ambient intelligence can belong inside daily practice. Four plants stand openly on the public shelf; five more are kept in private terracotta pots.
Shared brain for multi-agent AI. Unifies search, memory and knowledge into a single living space where multiple assistants can work on the same base.
Persistent memory for Code Agents. Decisions and context survive across sessions instead of starting from scratch every time.
Security and privacy layer for Code agents. Real-time protection over bash, files and web.
Intelligent document generator. Turns ideas and data into multiple ready-to-share formats.
Personal knowledge base. A living, cross-referenced wiki maintained from daily interactions.
PTE Academic practice companion with AI-based scoring, installable from the browser.
Visual simulation interface for AI agents to observe, orchestrate and study multi-agent interaction.
Local-first presentation generator. Turns text and ideas into export-ready slides, without leaving the machine.
Fully local voice-to-voice translation for private multilingual conversations.
The sunlit annex, kept warmer. Personal curiosities — health, longevity, genomics, biometrics and self tracking, plus the occasional small experiment built for the apartment itself. Explorations, not products. Three plants for now, all private. Future work in this space lands here by default.
Notes and research toward a personalised health assistant — genetic studies, lab indicators, wearables, nutrition and supplementation — designed from the beginning to run locally and securely.
Native iOS companion that reads signals from wearables and a smart scale, and turns them into personalised reports in real time. On device first, built to grow slowly and endure.
Small computer-vision experiment that detects and identifies which cat is which from a home camera feed. Built to learn the residents of the apartment.
A documented collection of 14 specimens — papers, articles and conference presentations in strategic open pit mine planning optimization, spanning 2016 to 2025. Each specimen is pressed next to the plant it grew from: Eucalyptus, Magnolia or Ceiba.
Poblete, C.
Poblete, C., González, J.
Hill, S., Poblete, C.
Poblete, C., Abouaali, M.
Bai, V., Hill, S., Place, D., Poblete, C., Rudge, I.
Hill, S., Bai, V., Place, D., Rudge, I., Poblete, C.
Smith, R., Faramarzi, F., Poblete, C.
Smith, R., Das, R., Poblete, C., Van der Hou, N.
Villa, D., Poblete, C.
Contador, E., Poblete, C.
Maldonado, E., Poblete, C., Villa, D., Ludwicki, C.
Miranda, F., Poblete, C.
Poblete, C., González, M., Romero, J., Fuentes, D.
Poblete, C., González, M., Romero, J., Fuentes, D., Abdrashitova, O.
14 specimens · pressed and labeled →
The person behind Monsthera, and why this apartment exists.
Mining engineer who tied his entire career to the technology and software side of mining. What started as planning open pits became, over fifteen years, a long study of how complex systems can be modeled, optimised and decided over under uncertainty — first hands-on as a strategic mine planner, then as the technical voice behind the software other planners use.
What's alive right now. A day-job stewarding strategic mine planning software, and a parallel workshop where I treat AI as a material to build with: multi-agent systems with shared memory, and small tools that sit close to daily practice.
What carries the work. Less the domain, more the way of looking at it. The same instinct — frame the problem, model the uncertainty, decide what's worth optimising — moves with me from mines to teams, to processes, to home, to health.
For published work — papers, articles and talks — see the Herbarium. For roles, companies and timeline, LinkedIn is the live record.