AI & Emerging Tech | CEO & co-founder at @LayerXlab (AI studio) and @taikainetwork (hackathon platform)

Joined March 2011
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๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜, ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฝ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜. LayerX supports companies build AI products through strategy, design, development, and custom integrations designed for real-world use and scale. Need an AI partner for your next product? Letโ€™s talk. ๐Ÿค
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I killed my own company and rebuilt it. @LayerXlab started in Web3. Today it's an AI studio. Talked through the whole thing on Decoding AI: AI agents for SMEs, vibe coding, and why the winners will be AI-native from day one. Full episode bellow. ๐ŸŽง
Tune in for the new episode of Decoding AI with @hypermarioal. ๐ŸŽง Together with @marcostfcastro and Pedro Aguiar, they discuss LayerXโ€™s transition from Web3 to AI, the rise of AI agents for SMEs, and how vibe coding is changing the way startups are built. A conversation about AI-native companies, smaller teams, community-led growth, and the future of software. Listen now. โฌ‡๏ธ youtube.com/watch?v=gYESId7bโ€ฆ
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I usually show up to hackathons to organize, mentor or judge. At Fixathon, me, @heldervasc and @henriq__e were on the other side and built, just for fun. The room was so strong we never expected to win. We did. ๐Ÿ† The full story ๐Ÿ‘‡
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The highest ROI activity in AI right now isn't on your screen. Two days at SIM Conference in Porto. No laptop, just people. I came back with the one thing the timeline never hands me: clarity. The firehose tells you what's loud. A room full of people you trust tells you what's true. Wrote about what that actually looked like.
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This is huge. TAIKAI just became the first agentic hackathon platform. Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini can now connect natively and act on your behalf. And whatโ€™s coming next is wild: AI vs AI hackathons. The future of building is collaborative, with humans and agents shipping side by side.
๐—ช๐—ฒโ€™๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ท๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ท๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ง๐—”๐—œ๐—ž๐—”๐—œ: ๐—ฎ ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—–๐—ฃ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ. ๐Ÿ”— This makes TAIKAI the first agentic hackathon platform, where AI models like @claudeai, @OpenAI's ChatGPT, and @GeminiApp can connect directly to the platform and take action on your behalf. And this is only step one. Next up: something even bigger, the first hackathon where AI models compete against each other. Stay tuned.
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๐—ช๐—ฒโ€™๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ท๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ท๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ง๐—”๐—œ๐—ž๐—”๐—œ: ๐—ฎ ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—–๐—ฃ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ. ๐Ÿ”— This makes TAIKAI the first agentic hackathon platform, where AI models like @claudeai, @OpenAI's ChatGPT, and @GeminiApp can connect directly to the platform and take action on your behalf. And this is only step one. Next up: something even bigger, the first hackathon where AI models compete against each other. Stay tuned.
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Every conference should have one of these. Ask SIM = AI concierge for SIM Conference 2026. Speakers, schedule, venue, tickets, networking. Instant answers, with sources. Proud of what the @LayerXlab team shipped for @StartupPortugal ๐Ÿ‘‡
Introducing Ask SIM, an AI concierge created by LayerX for SIM Conference 2026, a @StartupPortugal innitiative. Ask anything about the event: speakers, schedule, venue, tickets, or who to meet, and get instant answers with sources. Weโ€™re excited to be at SIM Conference 2026, bringing Ask SIM with us to enhance how attendees experience the event on the ground.
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When you replace your whole team with AI and find out you have to do everything now. ๐Ÿ˜…

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Next week at SIM Conference in Porto๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น with @pcbo and @hypermarioal "Ship or Die: AI Agents for Founders" I'll break down how AI is reshaping what startups need to raise, how much, and when. Pedro demos his personal AI chief of staff live on stage. Join us ๐Ÿค
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For every $1 a company spends on software, it spends $6 on services. That gap is the entire opportunity. The question every AI founder should be asking: Are you selling the tool, or the work? Wrote a manifesto on the Service as a Software era ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Do you want to give your blog a voice ? ๐Ÿ”‰ How we turned posts into audio with open models, locally, on a Mac with mlx . At first it might seem easy. Grab the first text-to-speech library you find, point it at a markdown file, and let it talk. We tried that early on, just to feel the shape of the problem. The result was instructive. By instructive I mean: it sounded awful. I wrote an article on @LayerXlab detailing the entire process, from the three stages pipeline, to how we run it on a laptop. blog.layerx.xyz/audio-narratโ€ฆ
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Weโ€™re so back! ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค

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Unleash the agents (humans or non-humans) ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Loved the energy at Agents Day! People defending their agent like it was their child. Congrats @pcbo and @_pedro_torres for putting this together.
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Most companies don't have an AI problem. They have an ownership problem. The tech is a commodity. Finding someone inside who actually owns the outcome is what separates pilots from production. Talked to @Linktoleaders about this. Link in the comments ๐Ÿ‘‡
โ€œWhatโ€™s missing is not access to technology, itโ€™s someone inside the company who owns the topic.โ€ In a recent @Linktoleaders interview, our CEO @hypermarioal explains why many companies are still stuck in pilot mode and what it really takes to turn AI into production systems that deliver real business value. At LayerX, we focus on closing that gap, building real AI products, not slides.
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I spent the last few months testing AI agents. Open frameworks, pre-built assistants, dedicated platforms. None stuck. So I built my own. Eva lives in Telegram, handles voice/vision/PDFs, and can write her own new tools at runtime. Now open source. ๐Ÿ‘‡
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