About Lunero

Built by people who understand childcare risk.

Built from years inside Australian childcare centres, backed by peer-reviewed AI research and high-stakes operational delivery.

"Lunero exists to help services intervene faster and document incidents with confidence, using ethical, sovereign AI built for Australian childcare."

Founding team

Three founders. Domain depth across childcare operations, governance, and computer vision, built for Australian conditions.

Tanya Wenczel
Lifelong founder and self-directed operator across creative ventures

Tanya Wenczel

Co-Founder & CEO

Tanya has been self-employed her entire career, leading ventures across ballet, acting, teaching, marketing, writing, and production. That path built the founder stamina, audience craft, and stakeholder trust she now turns toward operator adoption, capital strategy, and the child-safety conversation.

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Erik Sawaya
350+ centres visited as a media supplier across 2 years

Erik Sawaya

Co-Founder & COO

Erik spent two years on-site at Australian childcare centres as a photo and video supplier, working closely with directors and educators during each visit. That access let him observe room patterns and behaviours first-hand and run informal interviews with leadership and floor staff — the operational grounding that shapes Lunero's product architecture, reporting workflows, and rollout path.

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Dr. Mohammad Abuhassan
Production DevOps + peer-reviewed AI + HREC-approved child behaviour research

Dr. Mohammad Abuhassan

Co-Founder, CTO & Chief AI Officer

Dr. Abuhassan pairs two years as a DevOps engineer at Zain with peer-reviewed ML/DL research and HREC-approved child behaviour work. He owns Lunero's technical stack end-to-end — from on-device inference models to the production infrastructure that ships them inside real services.

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Research partnerships and ethics oversight

Guided by industry experts

Guided by industry experts.

Lunero is shaped by advisors with deep expertise across childcare, technology, and regulation.

University AI researchers (ethics oversight)
Childcare operations and compliance leaders
Senior child protection investigator (Victoria)
Privacy + regulatory compliance experts

How we build

The principles that shape every decision.

Ethics first

Developed under university ethics oversight. We hold one of few HREC-approved programs for AI-based child behaviour analysis.

Sovereign by design

On-prem processing keeps video on-site by default. Any exports are local, permissioned, and auditable.

Built for compliance

Designed for NQF and NQS evidence, Child Safe Standards, and audit-ready documentation from day one.

See the product in context

See the product in context.

If you are a director, operator, or governance lead, we can walk you through the current workflow, deployment model, and pilot pathway.

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