Daniel Braz

Technology & Product leader

Companies spend more on technology every year and still struggle to say what it returned. Usually the problem sits between the business strategy and what the teams actually build. That is the work: a technology and product strategy the business can act on, teams and tools that deliver it, and the management of the business that grows from it. Sometimes that business has to be built from scratch, from the first product to the go-to-market, including how it will be funded and run. Other times it has to scale or change course. In every case, the outcome is the same: technology the business can explain, measure and turn into results.

00 / The problem

Lots of pilots. Little production. No return.

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01 / About

Strategy that became productAt BRQ, I am CTO of the Digital Products Studio, a product organization with dozens of digital products in operation, used by millions of people under the brands of clients in financial services, insurance and energy. My responsibility spans the technology and product vision through to profit margin. I built the internal platform, AI agents and accelerators that bring speed and quality to the teams’ delivery.

Platform that became a businessAt Senior Sistemas, I led the platform pillar and owned the company’s vision for it. As general manager of X Platform, I turned that vision into a business built from scratch: I defined the business and pricing model, built the leadership team and owned the P&L of a unit with its own sales, marketing, product, engineering, operations and support. Around the platform, we built a partner ecosystem backed by developer tools and commercial agreements.

At Nuvemshop, as Field CTO, I built the operation that enabled major brands to extend the platform through APIs, SDKs, test environments and partners.

A business that grew to scaleAt Concrete, I led engineering and, when growth came to depend on sales, business development as well. During that period, the company grew from 40 to 700 people, more than 300 of them in engineering, before being acquired by Accenture. At Accenture, I was a director for the financial services (FSI) and telecom, media and technology (CMT) industries, with a R$ 450 million portfolio. I led the Business Agility and Modern Engineering practices. I was technically accountable for the projects and had revenue and profit margin targets for the practices.

R$ 17M
Senior Sistemas · X Platform
Annual recurring revenue of a business unit built from scratch
0→57
Senior Sistemas · X Platform
People hired in 24 months for that unit
40×
Concrete
Company revenue growth in those years, from R$ 5M to R$ 200M, through the acquisition by Accenture
R$ 450M
Accenture
Portfolio as Technology Director, run as a business from sale to margin
02 / What I do

Technology strategy and vision

A direction the board understands and the teams can execute: where to invest, in what order and what not to do, and how architecture and AI choices show up in the results.

AI in products and operations

Agents in production, not in pilots: where they fit, what context they get and how their work is measured. Their autonomy grows the way anyone’s does, on track record, not on a calendar.

Digital products and platforms

Finding out what is worth building, prioritizing it and measuring whether it works. From the first product to a platform others can extend, with APIs, partners and a business model behind it.

New ventures

A startup or a new unit inside a larger company: when technology becomes a business, with product, go-to-market, sales and P&L in the same hands.

Teams that deliver

Product, engineering, design and data organized to decide without the leader in the room, with the practices and tools that keep delivery steady as the team grows.

03 / Research & writing All on Medium ↗

Notes on how technology decisions go right and wrong, written for the people who make them.

Latest · Oct 26, 2026 Many management failures happen with plans that were executed well. What failed was the reading of how the system would respond to the plan.
04 / Talks

Invited to speak about AI in operation, platforms and ecosystems, and what changes when agents join the workforce.

São Paulo Digital Workers Travel Tech Hub Hiring, onboarding and operating a digital worker in production — the harness around the model: tools, context, verification, blast radius and the human loop. São Paulo Digital Workers: When AI Becomes Part of the Workforce Runway to Web Summit Rio · with Marcelo Echeverria and Gustavo Gorenstein What changes when agents stop being tools and join the workforce. São Paulo AI for Leaders — Workshop AI Bootcamp · Singularity Brazil · with Diego Dalmaso How leadership teams map AI opportunities and tie them to strategic drivers — from pilot to operation. Rio de Janeiro Hyper-personalization at Scale Web Summit Rio · with Sergio Lopes dos Santos What hyper-personalizing experiences really means and what changes in product and data architecture when AI enters the loop. Rio de Janeiro How to Leverage a Technology Partner Network Rio Innovation Week · Conecta Varejo track, with André Abreu (BossaBox) and others Building and running technology partner ecosystems. São Paulo AI Panels — Four Editions Runway to Web Summit Rio Speaker and host across four editions of the Web Summit Rio warm-up: from copilots to agents, conversational AI in digital products, and digital workers.

05 / Get in touch

Happy to talk about technology, products and the business behind them.

dsbraz@dsbraz.com
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