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Who we are

Anthony R. Perlas is a Los Angeles photographer, AI builder, speaker and U.S. veteran. He founded the LILLITH, SEROPTICS, OTTE, FLUX, OPELVME, SP Hunt and Perlas desks.

What we do

He speaks on one idea: make life portable. Topics include starting over with a plan, building with AI as a solo operator, and the long future of life. Talks are paid engagements.

When

Dates are booked through anthonyrperlas.com.

Where

Los Angeles, and wherever the event is.

Why

The talk theme comes from one long view:

• Fact: the Sun is slowly brightening. Solar models give Earth roughly one to two billion habitable years (Schröder & Smith 2008; Wolf & Toon 2015).
• Open question: life may be rare. Earth is the only place we know it exists.
• Belief: humanity should become spacefaring and, in time, carry life beyond the solar system.
• Speculation: if a superintelligence is ever built, it might help preserve life and even restart it elsewhere. Nobody knows whether that’s possible, and we label it that way.
• Philosophy (labeled as philosophy): the universe may work something like a dreaming brain, a mind imagining itself into form. It’s a personal view, never presented as science.

How it works

Event hosts, veteran organizations and HR/ERG teams can book a talk through anthonyrperlas.com. Talks are paid. There are no free consults.

Links

Main site: https://anthonyrperlas.com/ · Blog: https://blog.anthonyrperlas.com/ · Forum: https://forum.anthonyrperlas.com/

Published on this desk because the brand WordPress user is unavailable this pass. Original brand voice retained. (cross-post: blog.seroptics.com has no ‘blog’ user)

Two old profiles describe SEROPTICS wrong. about.me places its creative director in Charlotte, North Carolina, and an Instagram bio calls the founder an “aspiring photographer” — both outdated. SEROPTICS is real, and it is run from Los Angeles by Anthony R. Perlas: photographer, videographer, founder and CEO. The about.me page got the name right. We’re updating the rest.

First principle

Every creator who builds on a platform is a tenant. The landlord can change the rent — the algorithm, the policy, the payout — on a Tuesday, and you find out Wednesday. Reach you don’t own is reach you’re renting.

SEROPTICS exists to help independent creators and service operators own three things:

1. The site. Your address on the internet.
2. The list. The people who asked to hear from you.
3. The record. What you did, written down where you control it.

Everything else is distribution.

The fleet

SEROPTICS is the parent directory of fourteen desks. Each has its own voice; each closes the same way.

| Desk | What it does | |—|—| | Anthony R. Perlas Desk | The founder’s hub; confidence coaching 21+ | | FLUX | Coached fitness transformation | | OPELVME | AI automations for service businesses | | Perlas Foundation | Free, nonpartisan literacy workshops (forming) | | OTTE Agency | LA crew desk | | OTTE Models | 21+ atmosphere and image talent | | Nightlife Report | Sourced LA after-dark coverage | | LILLITH | Directed fashion film — lillith.vip | | Perlas University | Operator courses (not accredited) | | LaTLmes | Independent LA-first news explainers | | SP Hunt | Business research and analytics | | Helian Way | A secular order of reason | | Aphrodite / Venus desk | Creator back-office, you keep the keys | | SEROPTICS | The mothership |

What moved in seven days

SEROPTICS Pass — designed. One free Pass for the whole fleet. Email plus phone, one Mailchimp audience on the free tier, each sign-up tagged by the desk it came from. The rule: sign up on LILLITH, hear from LILLITH. The design is complete; installation is going desk by desk, and we won’t call it live on a site until the form is actually connected there.

The Founders Pass offer stays as published on the site: waitlist free today, with a Founders rate listed for when membership opens. A membership, not securities.

LILLITH Content Night — directed fashion film booking path rebuilt at lillith.vip.

OPELVME — AI automation practice; audit-first, pilot clients forming.

Nightlife Report — the LA coverage engine now runs on verified, date-stamped fields.

Oct 31 Venus / Morning Star — fleet-wide campaign creative in production.

Ambassador and AI internship program — designed at California minimum wage plus commission. Handshake posting copy ready.

Perlas Foundation and Perlas University — education tracks advancing in parallel: free civic basics on one side, operator skills on the other.

Circulation fixes — crew invoice language and booking-form repair packs, so money and inquiries stop leaking between desks.

Why one founder, fourteen desks

Because a creative operator’s real asset is the system, not any single brand. Anthony spent years as a photographer and videographer in Los Angeles watching talented people lose everything when one account went dark. The answer is redundancy with a single spine: many doors, one list, one record.

What we won’t claim

No payments are live through the fleet yet. The Pass isn’t live on all fourteen sites yet. No member counts are published. When those change, this page changes — with dates.

Join

Get on the list you’ll actually own a piece of.

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Talk to the founder: https://calendar.app.google/YipFae7DNyHKSMUH9 Write to the studio: https://lillith.vip/contact

SEROPTICS — stop renting reach.

If a search engine told you I’m “Dave,” a camp counselor, or an “aspiring photographer,” it’s reading a profile I wrote years ago — and it’s wrong today. My name is Anthony R. Perlas. I’m a Los Angeles photographer, videographer and the founder and CEO of SEROPTICS, a fleet of fourteen creative and service brands. The “CEO of thighs” line on an old TikTok bio was a joke; it is not my job title.

That’s the correction. Now the record.

Why I’m writing this myself

Search results are a memory, not a verdict. They surface whatever was indexed most, and for a long time the most-indexed version of me was a teenager with a camera and a few half-finished social bios. That version was honest at the time. It isn’t current.

First principle: if you don’t publish your own record, the internet publishes an old one for you. So this page is the record, kept on a site I own, updated when things change.

What this site is — and isn’t

Some results describe anthonyrperlas.com as “dating and life coaching, 21+.” That’s one offer here, not the whole desk. The coaching is real: consent-first social-confidence work for adults, one intake call, one practice you can repeat. It isn’t therapy and it doesn’t promise outcomes.

But the desk is bigger than that. It’s the front door to my work as a photographer, videographer and operator — the person who builds web, social and film for venues, brands and talent in Los Angeles. If you came here for coaching, book it. If you came here because you need a camera, a site, or a content system, you’re in the right place too.

About the “About” page

The old About page told a mythic story: heartbreak turned into a nightlife empire, with a background line I don’t document on the page. I’m retiring that copy. Not because a story is a crime, but because a record should read like a record. Here is the version I’ll stand behind:

I spent years photographing and filming Los Angeles after dark — rooftops, lounges, launches, the people who make a room worth walking into. That craft taught me how venues, talent and brands actually win attention. Now I build the systems that do it on purpose.

That’s it. Craft first. Claims I can show.

What shipped in the last seven days

This is the part I’d rather you read than any old bio.

• A 14-brand fleet, organized. SEROPTICS now acts as one directory for fourteen desks — fashion film, crew, AI automation, nightlife coverage, education, research and more. Each has its own voice; all close with the same line: A SEROPTICS desk.
• SEROPTICS Pass, designed. One free waitlist for the whole fleet — email plus phone, a single Mailchimp audience, tagged by brand — so a person who signs up on one site doesn’t get spammed by thirteen others. The design is done; rollout is going site by site.
• LILLITH Content Night. At lillith.vip, I direct fashion film and stills in LA. The Content Night format and its booking path got rebuilt this week so a creator or brand can go from “I want this” to a calendar slot in two clicks.
• OPELVME. Our AI-automation practice for service businesses — missed-call text-back, booking, follow-up — with a person on every non-routine handoff.
• Nightlife Report LA. A coverage engine for LA after dark: door times, cover, kitchens, the rope. Sourced, with corrections on the record.
• Oct 31 Venus / Morning Star campaign. Creative is in production now.
• Ambassador + AI internship program. Designed around California minimum wage plus commission — paid, not “exposure.” College posting copy for Handshake is ready.
• Perlas Foundation and Perlas University. Education tracks are advancing — free civic and money-literacy workshops on one side, operator courses on the other. Neither claims accreditation or charitable status it doesn’t have.
• Back-office repairs. Crew invoice language rewritten in plain terms; booking forms across the fleet getting repair packs so inquiries stop falling through.

None of that is a press release. It’s a work log.

How to verify me

• LinkedIn — the closest third-party match to the truth: LA creative operator, venue web and social, film, talent.
• YouTube — nightlife and fashion work, filmed and edited by me.
• lillith.vip — the current portfolio.
• Flickr — an archive of earlier work. Good history; not the current book.

If a profile anywhere disagrees with this page, this page wins, and I’m updating the profile.

Work with me

If you’re a venue that needs a site and a feed that move people through the door, a brand that needs a film, or a person who wants to show up with more confidence — book a call. Fifteen minutes, no pitch deck.

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Book a call: https://calendar.app.google/YipFae7DNyHKSMUH9 Or write to the studio: https://lillith.vip/contact

Anthony R. Perlas — Los Angeles photographer, videographer, founder. A SEROPTICS desk.

Loud tactics that treat people as targets fail the moment someone is actually listening. The Anthony R. Perlas Desk at anthonyrperlas.com is dating and social confidence coaching for adults 21+ — consent first, no PUA-as-product, no LILLITH photo CTA mash on this desk.

Apex function

Book an intake. Leave with one practice, not a manipulative script. Gate under-21. Refuse surveillance and intimacy-as-service asks. Not therapy; not nightlife promotions.

Real use case: adult returning to dating books intake

1. Confirm 21+ on the form.
2. Book intake — state the real social context (apps, friends-of-friends, work-adjacent).
3. Practice one behavior aloud (pitch confidence: rehearse, then deliver).
4. Separate invoices if routed from Seroptics Pass — do not mix photo hire here.

Study-note paraphrase

Feature (intake + practice) → benefit (sounds like you under pressure) → proof (consent rules published) → CTA (book intake). Problem→solution should dominate the call.

SEO keywords

dating coaching adults 21+ · social confidence coaching · consent-first dating desk · anthonyrperlas · ethical social fluency Los Angeles

CTA

Book intake at anthonyrperlas.com. Adults 21+ only.

Consent as product

Social fluency that collapses into target-tactics fails live conversation. The Anthony R. Perlas Desk gates 21+, refuses manipulation-as-product, and books intake for one practiced behavior — not a secret script pack.

Boundaries

Not therapy. Not surveillance. Not intimacy services. Not LILLITH hire. Seroptics may route seekers here; keep invoices and CTAs separate so SEO intent stays clean.

Call structure

Seventy percent problem→solution. Then feature→benefit→proof→CTA. Rehearse the opening line. Adults only.

Closing operator checklist

1. Name the apex URL correctly in every asset.
2. Keep adults 21+ gates visible on commercial lanes.
3. Separate invoices across sister brands.
4. Date every Drive folder; one client-share subfolder only.
5. Rehearse problem→solution before feature dumping.
6. Publish refuse lists — they attract the right buyers.
7. Measure replies and holds, not vanity metrics alone.

Operator checklist (every brand)

1. Spell the apex URL correctly in every asset — especially opelvme.com with one m.
2. Keep adults 21+ gates visible on commercial, nightlife, talent, and dating lanes.
3. Separate invoices and CTAs across sister brands; never mash LILLITH Night price into Pass, press, faith, or civic pages.
4. Date every Google Drive folder; keep one client-share subfolder so assistants do not fork twelve “final” exports.
5. Rehearse problem → solution before feature dumping; then feature → benefit → proof → CTA.
6. Publish refuse lists in public — they attract serious buyers and deter bad-fit asks.
7. Measure holds, replies, and waitlist joins — not vanity metrics on rented platforms alone.
8. Never DM Sofie for bookings; use public book paths only. No guardian-surname endorsements. No personal PR bleed in SEO copy.