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Generalist · Founder · CEO

I'm a generalist.

Someone with real, working knowledge across many fields. If I can't do it, I know how to.

Connecticut · New York · Brazil 25+ years building businesses 4 languages
Carlos Marques 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

One person, a lot of rooms I'm comfortable in.

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Trades & construction

Founded and ran a masonry company. Working knowledge of electrical and plumbing. I know how things get built.

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Marketing & advertising

Built real advertising and marketing skill, then put it to work growing my own companies.

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Photo & video

Founder of Marcott Studios. HDR, video tours, 3D, licensed aerial. Helped sell 6,000+ homes.

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Real estate

Licensed agent and investor. I understand the deal, the market, and how it all moves.

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Software & AI

Built and shipped a production SaaS and several AI apps. Systems that run businesses on their own.

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Security

Found and sealed real vulnerabilities in my own systems, by hand and with AI tools I built.

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Business & sales

30 years selling. Bookkeeping, graphic design, P&L. I diagnose a business quickly and fix what's off.

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Languages

English, Portuguese, Spanish, French. I can work and close in any of them.

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Anywhere, anytime

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

I discovered a new concept for controlling access.

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.

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USPTO provisional patents filed
0.7ms
P99 latency, 70x better than spec
13.9k
Requests per second sustained
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Evaluator dimensions, all live

What I'm building now

Live work, and the workshop behind it.

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

Tell me what you're trying to do.

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.