Chapter V

Labs

Experiments with honest status

Breadth and speed of experimentation — with honest status.

Custom websites

Active

The digital presence undersells the work.

High-finish bespoke sites; unsold ones become cases.

Learning Institutional sites deserve art direction, not pamphlets.

Astro · React · Tailwind · Cloudflare Pages

Clipia

Active

Short-form video takes hours per piece.

SaaS in closed beta, payments live.

Learning Full script → voice → captions → composition; the demo is the ad.

FastAPI · Celery · XTTS · Whisper · FFmpeg · Claude API

Traço Urbano

Validated locally

Permit drawings take weeks from zoning to plan sheet.

Copilot with a fail-closed geometry engine; Cafelândia-PR pilot.

Learning Unverified parameters never back opinions — fail-closed is the product.

FastAPI · shapely · ezdxf · Next.js · pgvector

VistorIA

Prototype

Building inspections rely on manual checklists and fragile evidence.

AI-guided inspection on Quest 3, with vision validation.

Learning The 2–6s LLM latency matches a physical checklist's rhythm.

Unity 6 · Meta XR SDK · Fastify · Claude Vision

Oracle

Active

Prove a voice agent without installing anything?

Voice agent at the edge: chat + RAG + narration.

Learning Tool-use, RAG and TTS in one Worker at near-zero cost.

Cloudflare Workers · OpenRouter · ElevenLabs · MCP

Market Radar

Active

Latent demand drowns in HN/Reddit noise.

Local radar: collect → embeddings → clusters → 2-pass analysis.

Learning Immutable history (nothing deleted) compounds analysis quality.

Node · SQLite · HDBSCAN · OpenRouter

VR Voice AI

Prototype

Hands are busy in a headset — voice is the interface.

Voice conversation with AI on Quest 3 (wake word → Whisper → Claude → ElevenLabs).

Learning Verified on the real headset; secrets live in the backend, never the APK.

Unity 6 · Porcupine · Whisper · Claude · ElevenLabs

Comadre

Experiment

AI editorial entertainment without deepfakes or defamation.

Voice persona with real-source editorial pipeline and kill-switch.

Learning Editorial boundaries (sourcing, no real-person cloning) make it possible.

NestJS · React · pgvector · ElevenLabs

Finanças LLM

Active

Aggregators charge for data that is already yours.

Couple's finances: free aggregation + LLM chat, web and WhatsApp.

Learning Unofficial integrations demand drift handling on every bank update.

NestJS · React · Python · PostgreSQL