VILU INTERNATIONALEst. 2016 · Salt Lake City

16 June 2016 · Salt Lake City · Utah LLC 9843002

From world trade
→to cosmic evolution

Two brothers. A decade moving commodities, metals and historical bonds across five offices. Today: strategic advisory for governments, sovereign wealth funds and distinguished families building the institutions that will govern the Moon, Mars and everything between.

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Earth ⇄ Luna · one-way—
Earth ⇄ Mars · one-way—
Next transfer window—
Hellas Planitia · T−—
2016Founded
5Ground stations
2Divisions
9Papers published

The beginning

The Henríquez brothers

In 2016, from Salt Lake City, Rogelio and José Henríquez founded Vilu International on a single conviction: the largest opportunities sit exactly where everyone else sees only complexity.

It began as a trading operation — food commodities, copper, silver, gold — and grew into something harder to replicate: fluency in historical international bonds, and access to networks that do not advertise. Working inside those rooms, they watched a new paradigm arrive early.

We never only traded commodities. We traded in trust — relationships built across years, and the discipline to see where humanity is actually heading.

R. A. Henríquez Lepillán · President
Legal entity
Vilu International Holdings LLC
Registration
Utah LLC #9843002
Established
16 June 2016
Headquarters
Salt Lake City, Utah
ORCID
0009-0001-5580-1054
Rogelio A. Henríquez LepillánPresident · Founder
Ancestral Evolution
José Henríquez LepillánCo-Founder
Global Trading

Our evolution

A decade behind us. Seven decades ahead.

The first four phases happened. The last three are the horizon we advise against — dated, so we can be held to them.

2016CompleteFoundationInternational trade

Vilu International LLC is established. Operations in food commodities, precious metals and historic international bonds. The network is built one relationship at a time.

2016 — 2020CompleteElite networksInside the rooms

Sustained engagement with global capital structures. Firsthand observation that the traditional order is quietly preparing for a fundamental transition.

2020 — 2024CompleteConscious shiftAncestral Evolution

Integration of the Ancestral Evolution framework — a pan-ancestral synthesis of inherited wisdom and transhumanist vision. Advisory begins on heritage, technology and transformation.

2024 — 2026CurrentCosmic architectsSpace governance

Vilu emerges as a specialist in space governance, transhumanist policy and organizational transformation. The Vilu Institute is founded and begins publishing.

2031 — 2040Lunar phaseCislunar governanceShackleton rim

The first permanent settlements need law before they need infrastructure. Charters, resource allocation and succession for populations of a few hundred, three seconds from Earth.

2047LandingHellas PlanitiaFirst Mars landing

Twenty minutes of signal delay makes terrestrial consent structures inoperable. A settlement that must decide before Earth can answer is, functionally, a sovereign one. This is the problem we work on now.

2094ProjectedOpen Sky EraDome removal

An atmosphere thick enough to walk under. By then the question is no longer governance but inheritance: what a species carries across a substrate change, and what it leaves behind.

Our architecture

Two divisions

One parent company, one founding principle — evolve without forgetting — and two audiences that must never be confused. Advisory sells. The Institute publishes.

Division I · Commercial

Vilu Advisory

Governments · Sovereign funds · Families

Strategic counsel for principals preparing for the next chapter of civilization. Space governance, global trading, organizational transformation.

  • Space governance & policy
  • Global trading strategy
  • Organizational transformation
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Division II · Research

Vilu Institute

Independent · Open access

An independent research centre with three lines of work, published in full and free to read. No client shapes a finding.

  • NQOT working paper series · Zenodo
  • Ancestral Evolution framework
  • Hellas-7 speculative program
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Advisory division

Three practices

Engaged separately or as one mandate. Every engagement begins with a written diagnostic before any recommendation is made.

Space governance

The legal architecture of expansion is being written right now, mostly by people who will never live under it. We help states write it deliberately.

  • Space legislation & treaty drafting
  • Asteroid mining rights frameworks
  • Quantum voting system design
  • AI-assisted governance models
  • Space resource allocation policy
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Global trading

Commodities, precious metals, historical bonds and the emerging market in space resources. A decade of execution across five offices.

  • Food commodities import / export
  • Copper, silver, gold
  • Historical international bonds
  • Space resource markets
  • Sovereign wealth fund advisory
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Transformation

Institutions do not fail at adopting technology. They fail at deciding who they still are afterwards.

  • Human–AI workforce integration
  • Leadership for multi-agent environments
  • Ancestral Evolution application
  • Transgenerational family strategy
  • Post-terrestrial readiness audit
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Who we serve

Our principals

We work with a small number of clients who understand that the next chapter requires inherited wisdom and transhumanist vision at once.

Governments with space programs
Royal & sovereign families
Sovereign wealth funds
Technology city-states
International organizations

The network

Five nodes on Earth. Two beyond it.

Four financial capitals, one valley, and two coordinates we have been drafting law for since before anyone lands there.

Terrestrial · Operational
E1Salt Lake CityUtah, USA · Headquarters40.7608° N, 111.8910° WOperational
E2New YorkNew York, USA40.7128° N, 74.0060° WOperational
E3MiamiFlorida, USA25.7617° N, 80.1918° WOperational
E4ZurichSwitzerland47.3769° N, 8.5417° EOperational
E5Valle CayucupilWallmapu, Chile · Origin37.7500° S, 73.2800° WOperational
Cislunar & Martian · Hellas-7 program
L1Shackleton RimLuna · South pole89.90° S, 0.00° ET− 4 y
M1Hellas PlanitiaMars · Southern highlands42.40° S, 70.50° ET− 20 y

L1 and M1 are program coordinates under Hellas-7, the Institute's declared speculative research line. No physical Vilu installation exists beyond Earth. The governance instruments for both do exist, and are being drafted now.

Begin

Your transition starts with a single question.

Whether you are drafting space legislation, planning across generations, or preparing an institution to evolve — write to us. We answer every serious enquiry.

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