[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":211},["ShallowReactive",2],{"site-content":3},{"id":4,"about":5,"consulting":14,"experiments":119,"extension":163,"identity":164,"intro":186,"meta":199,"navigation":200,"stem":209,"__hash__":210},"site\u002Fsite.json",{"label":6,"heading":7,"intro":8,"practice":9},"About","About.","I'm Claudio Mendonça, a design engineer working at the intersection of design and code. Experimenting with how we interact with software that can do much more than it used to.",{"before":10,"linkLabel":11,"linkTarget":12,"after":13},"This website showcases my experiments. I also offer ","consulting","\u002Fconsulting"," for clients, applying this knowledge to improve their systems and train their team to better leverage these new AI capabilities.",{"eyebrow":15,"headline":16,"subhead":17,"ctas":18,"deliverables":25,"brief":34,"differentiator":40,"offerings":51,"process":83,"pricing":96,"cta":115},"Consulting — automated, on-brand, accountable","Your recurring work, \u003Cbr \u002F>done by a system.","Every week your team rebuilds the same reports, newsletters, and many more tasks. I build systems that produce that work for you, on schedule, on-brand, and accountable. For the parts that don't repeat, I teach your team to work with AI so they move faster there too.",[19,22],{"label":20,"target":21},"Start a conversation","#contact",{"label":23,"target":24},"See how it works","#how",[26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33],"Recurring reports","Newsletters","Research briefs","On-brand output","Human-in-the-loop","Team training","Built in your tools","Yours to keep",{"label":35,"heading":36,"paragraphs":37},"Who this is for","The brief.",[38,39],"Most \"AI strategy\" is a slide deck. This is the opposite: working systems that produce your recurring work, built to your brand, grounded in your data.","The work is valuable. Doing it by hand, over and over, is not.",{"label":41,"heading":42,"paragraphs":43,"stat":46},"The honest version","Not just a chatbot.",[44,45],"Artificial Intelligence is much more than a chatbot.","The hard part is understanding what it can do for your business, reliably. The hard part is building systems that you can rely on because they're grounded in your data, and they expose that paper trail. That is the part you are paying for, and it is the part a generic chatbot won't do.",{"value":47,"label":48,"note":49,"source":50},"95%","of company AI pilots never deliver a measurable return.","The ones run with an outside specialist succeed about twice as often as in-house builds.","MIT, State of AI in Business 2025",{"label":52,"heading":53,"outcomesLabel":54,"items":55},"Offerings","What I do.","What you walk away with",[56,65,74],{"id":57,"title":58,"tagline":59,"blurb":60,"outcomes":61},"opportunity-audit","Opportunity Audit.","Two to three weeks. A plain plan and a fixed price before you commit to a build.","I sort your team's recurring work into three buckets: what to automate, what to train your people on, and what to leave to humans. You walk away with one measurable target and a fixed quote for the build. No obligation to go further.",[62,63,64],"Your work mapped: automate, empower, or leave alone.","One measurable outcome the build will be held to.","A fixed build price, credited back if you proceed.",{"id":66,"title":67,"tagline":68,"blurb":69,"outcomes":70},"automate","Automate the\u003Cbr \u002F>repetitive.","The reports and newsletters you rebuild every cycle, produced by a system instead.","I build the system that produces your recurring documents on schedule and on-brand, in your tools, yours to keep. A human stays in the loop and signs off before anything ships.",[71,72,73],"A working system that produces the work, every cycle.","Hours back for the people who were doing it by hand.","Output that looks like you, not a template.",{"id":75,"title":76,"tagline":77,"blurb":78,"outcomes":79},"empower","Empower\u003Cbr \u002F>your team.","For the judgment calls and one-offs: your team working with AI, not depending on me.","Hands-on training and setup for the work that doesn't repeat — how to think with AI, where it helps, where it doesn't, and how to keep quality and brand intact. Role-specific, on your actual workflows, not a generic deck.",[80,81,82],"A team that works with AI on the messy middle.","A playbook and setup your team keeps.","Less dependence on any one specialist, me included.",{"label":84,"heading":85,"steps":86},"How we work","How it works.",[87,90,93],{"title":88,"body":89},"Audit.","We start with a short audit. Identify a low-hanging fruit and together we pin down the one outcome that matters. I give you a fixed price for the pilot build — so nothing's a surprise before the real work starts.",{"title":91,"body":92},"Build.","I build it hands-on, integrating it as much as possible with your own tools, in short cycles you can follow. It runs on your data, and a person signs off before anything goes out — so you can trust what it produces.",{"title":94,"body":95},"Run it.","The system and its docs are yours to keep. Most people keep me on to maintain it, smooth out the edge cases, and automate the next thing — but you're never locked in. The build is the start, not the finish.",{"label":97,"heading":98,"lead":99,"rows":100},"What it costs","No mystery pricing.","Transparent and fixed. You know the number before we start.",[101,105,109,112],{"item":102,"price":103,"note":104},"Opportunity Audit","9999,00","2–3 weeks · credited toward your build",{"item":106,"qualifier":66,"price":107,"note":108},"Build","from 9999,00","fixed, set against the value it creates",{"item":110,"qualifier":111,"price":103},"Empower","training + setup",{"item":113,"price":114},"Care & R&D","9999,00 \u002F month",{"heading":116,"body":117,"label":20,"target":118},"Got something to build?","A short note about what you're working on is enough to start. No deck required.","mailto:claudioccm@gmail.com",{"heading":120,"items":121},"Personal experiments using AI for engineering, UX and process automation",[122,130,138,147,155],{"id":123,"title":124,"tag":125,"description":126,"url":127,"image":128,"alt":129},"cutthecrap","Cut The Crap","YOUTUBE VIDEOS AS TWEETS","Built to bust the youtube clickbait, and reduce the time I spend learning about new techniques, hacks and news in the AI space","https:\u002F\u002Fcutthecrap.claudiomendonca.com","\u002Fscreenshots\u002Fcutthecrap.jpg","Cut The Crap — YouTube videos as tweets",{"id":131,"title":132,"tag":133,"description":134,"url":135,"image":136,"alt":137},"edge","Edge","AUTO GENERATED BLOG ABOUT AI NEWS & RESEARCH","My daily update on AI research for my main subjects of interest","https:\u002F\u002Fedge.ccmdesign.ca","\u002Fscreenshots\u002Fedge.jpg","Edge — auto-generated AI news blog",{"id":139,"title":140,"tag":141,"description":142,"url":143,"image":144,"alt":145,"ariaLabel":146},"squoosh","Batch Squoosh","Tool · Self-hosted","A quick way to compress multiple images using the squoosh algorithm","https:\u002F\u002Fsquoosh.ccmdesign.com","\u002Fscreenshots\u002Fsquoosh.jpg","Batch Squoosh — self-hosted image compression","Squoosh",{"id":148,"title":149,"tag":150,"description":151,"url":152,"image":153,"alt":154},"varro","Varro","FULLY AI GENERATED BLOG & SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT","A (almost) fully autonomous article generation platform.","https:\u002F\u002Fvarro.me","\u002Fscreenshots\u002Fvarro.jpg","Varro — fully AI generated blog and social content",{"id":156,"title":157,"tag":158,"description":159,"url":160,"image":161,"alt":162},"feedback","Feedback","AI-POWERED FEEDBACK COLLECTION","Using website comments interface to give context to your Agents. This is both a collaboration tool between teams of people and agents.","https:\u002F\u002Ffeedback.ccmdesign.ca","\u002Fscreenshots\u002Ffeedback.jpg","Feedback — AI-powered feedback collection","json",{"name":165,"roles":166,"title":170,"tagline":171,"location":172,"email":173,"social":174,"elsewhere":180,"copyright":185},"Claudio Mendonça",[167,168,169],"Founder","Designer","Engineer","Design engineer","AI experiments, consulting, and training.","British Columbia","claudioccm@gmail.com",[175,178],{"label":176,"url":177},"GitHub","",{"label":179,"url":177},"X \u002F Twitter",[181,184],{"label":182,"url":183},"ccmdesign","https:\u002F\u002Fccmdesign.com",{"label":149,"url":152},"© 2026 Claudio Mendonça. All rights reserved.",{"eyebrow":187,"headline":188,"typewriter":189,"subhead":193,"ctas":194},"(01) — The index","AI",[190,191,192],"Experiments","Consulting","Training","I build opinionated AI tools, that solve some of my own problems. 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