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Founded and ran a masonry company. Working knowledge of electrical and plumbing. I know how things get built.
Generalist · Founder · CEO
Someone with real, working knowledge across many fields. If I can't do it, I know how to.
Carlos Marques
What that means
Knowledge that goes deep in a lot of places, not wide and shallow in one.
It started when I was a kid. My father worked for Halliburton in Israel, and he would bring me home all kinds of electronics. I took every one of them apart. My parents would get so mad, I could never put them back together, but figuring out how something worked by pulling it apart, that I was good at, and it never left me.
Then came music. I was classically trained in high school, and it gave me an outlet to create and to write. From there I went into running my father's masonry business and grew it from 7 people to 30. Along the way I learned to wire a house and plumb it. Then I switched into marketing, built real skill in advertising, and that pulled me into photography and videography, which became a company of its own.
I earned a real estate license and learned how property actually works, the deal and the sense behind it. I went deep into technology: I can build a computer from the ground up, program it, and find my way around just about anything. If I can't do it, I know how it's done, and I know who to put on it.
For the last stretch I've gone all in on AI. I've built several real apps with it, including language-learning tools and systems that talk to each other and quietly run my businesses. I've done sales for 30 years. I'm not an accountant, but I can keep the books. I know my way around the Adobe suite. I can look at a business and see what's missing or going wrong, fast, and then automate it.
I bridge the gap between deep-domain AI and the real world. In a single meeting I'll jump from one field to another and keep up in all of them. I've mentored and trained a lot of people over the years. What I really do is make complicated things talk to each other, and make people's lives easier.
The range
Founded and ran a masonry company. Working knowledge of electrical and plumbing. I know how things get built.
Built real advertising and marketing skill, then put it to work growing my own companies.
Founder of Marcott Studios. HDR, video tours, 3D, licensed aerial. Helped sell 6,000+ homes.
Licensed agent and investor. I understand the deal, the market, and how it all moves.
Built and shipped a production SaaS and several AI apps. Systems that run businesses on their own.
Found and sealed real vulnerabilities in my own systems, by hand and with AI tools I built.
30 years selling. Bookkeeping, graphic design, P&L. I diagnose a business quickly and fix what's off.
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French. I can work and close in any of them.
Skills I can earn from with nothing but an internet connection. Location is not the constraint.
Always learning Most recently, AI coursework in cybersecurity and deep learning, on top of a completed cybersecurity certificate.
Patent pending
UACOS is a 9-dimensional authorization engine that re-roots access control on the asset, not the user. Four USPTO provisional patents, validated on a working prototype, now deployed inside my production platform.
What I'm building now
An all-in-one platform that runs a real estate media business end to end: listings, jobs, media delivery, scheduling, invoicing, CRM, and AI operations. Built from the ground up and live in production.
Universal Asset-Centric Operational Security. The patent-pending authorization engine behind the platform. Four provisional patents, benchmarked faster than the open standards.
Top-rated real estate photography and marketing across CT, NY, MA and RI. Founded in 2013, grew from solo operator to a team, helped sell thousands of homes.
A new category and a manifesto about how small businesses and entrepreneurs should build and connect. Early, and one I care a lot about.
A set of scheduled bots that pull market data and post clean, useful signals into a closed community. Small, automated, runs itself. A private build, so there's nothing public to link to.
A language-learning app I built that makes picking up a new language easy through smart repetition. Designed around how people actually remember, so practice becomes a habit instead of a chore.
Also in the workshop: a local AI assistant wired into my whole stack, a mobile app, a property-search tool, and a handful of client sites and experiments. Ask me about any of them.
Let's talk
A problem you can't quite name, a business that feels off, a system that should exist and doesn't. That's my favorite kind of conversation.