AI / Research / Engineering
Paris — Manus AI Hackathon 2025
2025 · Paris, France
A compact collection around João's Paris Manus hackathon context, tied to rapid iteration and founder-style technical execution.
- Hackathon
- AI engineering
- Execution speed
Period
2025
Significance
A tactical proof layer for João's build-fast and ship-clean operating style.
Why it matters
It demonstrates that João's founder narrative is not only strategic; it is also grounded in high-velocity technical execution under event constraints.
Narrative
This collection captures one of the sharper moments in João's event-driven builder arc: a hackathon setting where speed, constraint, and product judgment matter as much as raw technical skill. The chapter aligns with João's broader pattern of shipping quickly while maintaining architectural clarity. It complements larger story arcs like Stanford and YC by showing how execution habits transfer into high-tempo, real-world AI contexts.
Curated media
A few moments that tell the story.
Build-session capture from the Paris Manus chapter.
Proof and links
External signal.
Continue the arc
Where the story goes next.
AI Platform
Speco
Vercel for training and deploying AI agents — a company uploads its data, creates a specialist agent, tests it, and deploys it through API/MCP.
AI Infrastructure
AI Engineering Systems
A compact view of João's professional AI systems work across retrieval, internal tooling, computer vision, and research-backed delivery.
Consumer AI
Astrea
An earlier AI-native astrology and self-reflection product designed around ritual, memory, symbolic interfaces, and emotionally resonant guidance.
Education & Global Exposure
Stanford Visiting Student — Summer 2024
The summer where João's horizon stopped feeling local.
Research & Applied Domain AI
Research & Legal AI
Research foundation → applied legal intelligence.
Startup Ecosystem
YC Startup School — San Francisco 2024
Early pattern-recognition inside the YC ecosystem.