Mark Laursen Co-Founder & Product Lead

Before founding and leading technology companies, Mark competed professionally in games and became a world champion at 21. His subsequent work has spanned proprietary engines, production infrastructure, technical product leadership, and company building. Across that work, he has contributed to teams that created three distinct game engines, each of which reached production.

He has built Model Context Protocol integrations and AI tooling used in production studio workflows. At a game-technology company he founded and led, the technical team developed proprietary engine technology backed by ten US provisional patent applications and an international PCT application. One related US patent has since issued.

He has also served as an independent external expert on an EU-funded game-technology R&D initiative in Portugal that included an international research, knowledge-exchange, and mobility cooperation route involving Macao. His assessment reconciled project objectives, technical evidence, research outputs, and delivery records into a formal technical-scientific opinion.

His current work continues through Brainjuice Labs and Marathon Variety, where he builds and advises on AI infrastructure, production systems, game technology, tools, and emerging distribution platforms. That combination of technical, commercial, and production experience informs his work on how AI systems discover, describe, compare, and recommend companies and products.

His published method starts with identified public sources and a visible review date, then distinguishes what the evidence supports from CiteSurge's interpretation. Each Insight preserves its source list and limitations.

The comparison publishes its scoring rubric, evidence date, self-authorship disclosure, re-verification deadline, and correction route. CiteSurge does not manufacture statistics, authorship, reviews, or outcomes to strengthen a claim.