# Claudio Mendonça

> Design engineer with fifteen years of practice, building AI systems that run in production. Ships his own AI products under his own name and runs a consulting practice that turns clients’ recurring documents, reports, and newsletters into accountable, on-brand systems, and trains the teams who operate them.

Claudio Mendonça is a founder, designer, and engineer based in British Columbia, with fifteen years of design and engineering practice and work for teams at Harvard, NYU, Meta, and Berkeley. This site is the index to his work: AI systems built and run under his own name, a consulting practice for research nonprofits, foundations, think tanks, and small expert teams, and writing about building AI systems that hold up in production. Available for a small number of engagements at a time.

## Work

- [Cut The Crap](https://cutthecrap.claudiomendonca.com): Strips YouTube AI-hype down to what actually shipped.
- [Edge](https://edge.ccmdesign.ca): A daily AI research brief, generated and published autonomously.
- [Batch Squoosh](https://squoosh.ccmdesign.com): Bulk image compression on the Squoosh algorithm, self-hosted, no one-at-a-time.
- [Varro](https://varro.me): Near-autonomous article and social pipeline, on-brand at volume.
- [Feedback](https://feedback.ccmdesign.ca): Turns page comments into structured context an agent can act on — one thread for the team and its agents.

## Consulting

- [Consulting](https://claudiomendonca.com/consulting): 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.

## Writing


## Contact

- Email: claudioccm@gmail.com
- Location: British Columbia
- Web: https://claudiomendonca.com/