bogota, colombia · building companies with AI · rails since 2012

running an experiment: can one person + AI build real companies?

i want a "morning ritual" - check in, make decisions, AI handles the rest.

product development. deployments. support. operations.

not AI-assisted. AI leading.

building in public. let's see how far this goes.

AI-native infrastructure. logs, errors, APM, feature flags, uptime, secrets. 16 products. self-hosted, open source. giving AI the eyes it needs to actually run things. → brainzlab.ai | github.com/brainz-lab

legal management for LATAM lawyers. AI-powered research, semantic document search with pgvector. built 100% with Claude. real product, real users. → lex-pro.co

AI financial coaching. personalized wealth-building guidance and financial literacy for everyone.

property management for residential buildings. multi-tenant, amenity booking, assemblies, PQR system, security portal.

AI-powered CRM. automated lead qualification, DNS validation, website crawling, personalized outreach with GPT-4.

colombian tax optimization. maximize deductions, file form 210, compare IMAN vs ordinary system.

mental wellness tracking in spanish. emotions, energy, sleep, habits, journals. year-view heatmap.

multiplayer party card game. cards against humanity style. custom decks, regional content, meme cards.

brainz lab repos → github.com/brainz-lab

• recall reflex pulse flux signal cortex beacon sentinel nerve vision vault synapse dendrite
• SDKs: brainzlab-ruby brainzlab-rails brainzlab-js

13+ years building software. rails since 2012. led teams, built ERPs, scaled platforms across LATAM.

• head of engineering @ picap LATAM - real-time systems at scale
• CTO @ symplifica - HR tech platform
• director of IT @ ROEPA international - ERP and enterprise

featured in MongoDB and DigitalOcean case studies. podcast appearance.

now: one founder. AI team. multiple products.

/now · /projects · /uses · /reading · /principles · /timeline · /failures

• father and husband
• LEGO collector (200+ sets)
• cat owner (ruby, charlie, cookie)
• still debugging at 2am

the best code builders are great readers and writers. that's what this is really about.

building on the shoulders of giants. i can't believe how far we got in the last 3 years.

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