apollo founded Mysteries Department and edits it. He began with the Voynich Manuscript in March 2026: a run of tests on its text, each set up in advance and checked on pages held back from it. That work became the book Reading Without a Key, the brief and the press kit.

He does the research with Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic. Every finding goes through the same review before it's published, and pages Claude helped write say so. He writes the site's news and keeps its methods and datasets up to date.