Bogotá № VII

Andres Murcia

Reports from the experiment

The Portfolio

What's shipping,
what's coming,
what came before.

Products, services, and experiments inside Brainz — plus the leadership roles that taught me how to build them.

№I Shipping №II BrainzLab №III Advisory №IV Coming next №V Prior leadership
№I
In production

Shipping today

Live products with paying customers (or in paid PoC). Each one has an operator owning day-to-day.

№01
AI · Marketing · Live

Amplifica

AI virality scorer + design generator

Submit a brief, get three design directions scored 0–100 for virality. Paying tiers from $1.5K/mo. Daniela runs day-to-day; an AI seller agent (Nexus) runs outbound.

Filed by Daniela Calvano amplifica.studio →
№02
Brand · Live

Lumina Fragancias

Artisan fragrance brand

Live on Instagram + marketplace + store. $10M+ COP in cumulative sales over two years on essentially no marketing. Now the dogfooding test for Brainz's own AI tools — if Amplifica + Nexus can't grow Lumina, they can't grow anyone.

Filed by Laura
№03
LegalTech · Live

LexPro

Legal practice management for LATAM

16 users on the free tier. Live PoC with AGM Abogados (8 lawyers). Built 100% with Claude. The firms themselves priced it 10× higher than we planned — $300K COP/mo, not $30K.

Filed by Jair Chaves Olmos lex-pro.co →
№04
Infrastructure · AI · Internal

BrainzLab

17-service Rails monorepo — the infrastructure backbone

All services deployed across Mac Studio + DigitalOcean. Hosts Nexus (AI seller agent), Synapse (multi-agent orchestration), Dendrite (living docs) and a full observability layer. Internal-first; productized one piece at a time.

Filed by Andres + team
№05
Consulting

Brainz Advisory

Sales motion install for B2B in LATAM

Command of the Message + Shape Up methodology, delivered as a 12-week pod engagement. Foundations $20K, Command $35K. First external proposal in flight.

Filed by Andres + senior pod
№II
Feature · Infrastructure

BrainzLab

A 17-service Rails monorepo. The backbone that everything else runs on. All deployed and stable across Mac Studio and DigitalOcean.

L5

AI & Enterprise

Synapse

Multi-agent orchestration. Hosts the AI executive team — APEX, FORGE, CLOSER.

Nexus

Autonomous AI seller. Drives outbound for Brainz Advisory and Amplifica.

L4

Hub

Platform

Central auth, billing, SSO across the suite.

L3

Observability & Knowledge

Signal

Unified alerting

Beacon

Uptime monitoring

Vision

Visual regression testing

Sentinel

Host monitoring

Cortex

Feature flags + rollouts

Dendrite

Living docs for code (dogfooding)

Nerve

Background-job monitoring

L2

Core Data

Recall

Structured logging

Reflex

Error tracking

Pulse

APM + tracing

Flux

Custom metrics

L1

Foundation

Vault

Secrets management for the suite.

Set in
Rails 8 PostgreSQL Hotwire Tailwind Docker Sidekiq MCP Protocol Claude API DigitalOcean Cloudflare
№III
Feature · Advisory

Brainz Advisory

Sales motion install for B2B in LATAM. First external proposal in flight.

Command of the Message + Shape Up methodology, delivered as a 12-week pod engagement. Foundations $20K, Command $35K. First external proposal in flight.

Tier I · Foundations
$20K

1 priority sector. 1 custom Value Card. 2 workshops up to 12 reps. Top-2 opportunity coaching.

Tier II · Command · Recommended
$35K

4 priority sectors cross-mapped. 4 Value Cards. 2 workshops up to 30 reps. Top-5 opportunity coaching. Manager certification. 90-day follow-up.

№IV
In the workshop

Coming next

Code exists. Customer doesn't — yet. The honest tier; surface area visible, not hyped.

№05 · Media

Builders Universe

The making-of show (working name)

Polyvocal — each operator narrates their slice of the work. Prewarm phase on LinkedIn until the first Advisory case study lands. One production day per week.

№06 · SaaS

Propi

Propiedad horizontal SaaS for Colombia

Code exists. Operator TBD. Routed via internal lead segmentation to property administrators.

№07 · SaaS

Certilab

Certificate workflows

Code exists. Positioning still being written.

№08 · Experiment

Neonbell

First product built end-to-end by AI

AI suggested it. AI built it. The factory is the asset, not the product. Validation pending first outbound campaign.

№V
From the Archive

Prior leadership

Operator roles before Brainz. The pattern: walk in, restructure, deliver. Repeat.

2022 – 2025

Picap LATAM

Head of Engineering

Mobility platform across Latin America. Scaled the engineering organization to 89 people, the platform to millions of monthly rides. Featured at DigitalOcean Deploy London, NYSE Investor Day, and as a MongoDB Success Story.

89
Team size
5+
Countries
1M+
Monthly rides
99.9%
Uptime
2020 – 2021 · CTO

Symplifica

First CTO role. HR tech for the Colombian market. Built a 23-engineer team and established the engineering culture.

2016 – 2021 · Director of IT

ROEPA International

Built ROEPA's digital infrastructure across France and Spain. Still active 10 years later as Rails + DigitalOcean maintenance.

2018 – 2019 · Tax software

Devatax

Five tax software products for the Colombian market. Regulatory compliance at scale.

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