Daniel Braz

Contextual AI platforms · Agents in production

I build digital products and the teams that ship them — for 25+ years, and still hands-on. CTO of Bud, a SaaS company where I build the product end-to-end: AI agents for strategy and performance, in production across the product, Microsoft Teams, and WhatsApp. Also CTO at BRQ, where embedded product teams build and operate digital products inside large enterprises. I write about agentic software engineering as a practitioner.

Daniel Braz
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I've spent 25+ years building digital products — as an executive, and still hands-on.

I'm CTO of Bud — a SaaS company where I build the product end-to-end, 0→1. Bud is a platform for strategy and performance management with context-aware AI: its Bud Coach agents (Goal Setting, Calibration, Performance & Development) reason over each company's strategy, goals, and performance data — not generic prompts — and run in production across the product, Microsoft Teams, and WhatsApp. Companies like General Mills, Sakata, Eniac, Evolve, Latina, and Alphabot run on it.

I'm also CTO of BRQ's Digital Products Studio — the former WEME, acquired by BRQ in September 2025. The Studio builds and operates digital products inside large enterprises: our teams embed as an extension of each client's product organization, owning the product from discovery through ongoing operation. There I built Backpack, the Studio's internal agent platform. The two roles are deliberate — at Bud I go deep on one product; at BRQ I scale the same practice across many.

Earlier, I ran the X Platform product unit at Senior Sistemas — full P&L, building the developer platform (dev portal, APIs, SDKs) that turned an ERP into a product-led ecosystem. At Nuvemshop, I built the LATAM Enterprise operation — distributed teams across Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico — that lets large merchants extend the core product. Before that, a decade at Accenture, ThoughtWorks, and Concrete leading embedded teams that built and operated digital products inside enterprises like Itaú, Globo, and Google — and helping scale Concrete from 40 to 700 people, through its acquisition by Accenture.

25+
Years Building Products
3
Channels in Production
40→700
Team Scaled
10+
Essays on Agentic SWE
What I Do
Agentic AI Engineering
Shipping production agents at Bud — Bud Coach (Goal Setting, Calibration, Performance & Development) — with context-aware AI and multi-channel delivery.
Platform & Product Strategy
End-to-end product leadership: discovery, roadmap, platform engineering, and outcome KPIs (NPS, WAU) — from strategy to what ships.
Engineering Leadership at Scale
Scaling organizations (40→700 at Concrete, 0→57 at Senior). P&L ownership, executive board work, and hiring and retaining teams that ship.
AI Research & Writing
Practitioner research across agentic SWE, AI-native products, AI governance, and developer productivity — published as essays on exploration-first specs, the harness around the model, and the role of human judgment in agentic systems.
Building Products Inside Enterprises
Building and operating digital products inside large enterprises, with teams embedded as an extension of the client's own product org.
Technology & AI Governance in Large Enterprises
Operating models for technology in regulated, multi-vendor environments: governance rituals, platform standards, AI policy and responsible-AI practice, and the decision cadence that keeps transformation programs moving.
Experience
CTO Current
BRQ
2025 — present · São Paulo
CTO of the PX business unit and Head of the Digital Products Studio (formerly WEME, acquired by BRQ in Sep 2025). Embedded product teams building and operating digital products inside enterprises like CPFL, Santander, and Edenred. Built Backpack, the Studio's internal agent platform.
CTO Current
Bud
2024 — present · São Paulo
CTO of Bud, a SaaS company. Building the product end-to-end, 0→1: strategy & performance management with context-aware AI, with Bud Coach agents in production across the product, Microsoft Teams, and WhatsApp — used by companies like General Mills, Sakata, and Eniac.
CTO
WEME
2024 — 2025 · São Paulo
CTO of WEME, the digital products studio acquired by BRQ in September 2025 — now BRQ's Digital Products Studio — and the birthplace of Bud. Defined the studio's operating model (KPIs, governance, platform engineering, systematic reuse) and built Backpack, its internal agent platform.
Platform Director
Senior Sistemas
2022 — 2024 · Blumenau
Head of the X Platform product unit, owning P&L and all functions (product, engineering, sales, marketing). Built and launched the developer platform — dev portal, APIs, SDKs — that turned Senior into a product-led business platform via attraction, connection, and ecosystem gravity. Grew the team from 0 to 57 in 24 months.
Global Head of Professional Services, Solutions Eng & Onboarding
Nuvemshop
2021 — 2022 · São Paulo
Built the product-extension operation for Enterprise clients of LATAM's leading SMB e-commerce platform — distributed teams across Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico delivering the APIs, SDKs, environments, and partner ecosystem that let large merchants build on top of the core product.
Technology Director & Business Agility Advisory Executive
Accenture
2019 — 2021 · São Paulo
Technology and sales lead in Financial Services and Communication, Media & Technology — a 2,500+ person unit. Teams embedded in clients' product organizations, building and operating digital products for enterprises like Itaú, Globo, and Google.
Business Development Director
ThoughtWorks
2018 — 2019 · São Paulo
Led the new ventures and innovation practices — building and launching new 0→1 digital products side by side with client teams at Braskem, BV, and Globo.com.
Director of Engineering
Concrete (Accenture)
2013 — 2018 · São Paulo
Member of the executive board — squads embedded in large enterprises to build and run their digital products. Scaled the company from 40 to 700 people, culminating in the acquisition by Accenture.
Co-Founder & CTO
Saci Labs
2009 — 2013 · Rio de Janeiro
Co-founded Saci Labs and ran its technology — after a decade as a software engineer (1997–2009).
Talks
Digital Workers
Travel Tech Hub
Aug 2026 · São Paulo
Talk on hiring, onboarding and operating a digital worker in production — the harness around the model: tools, context, verification, blast radius and the human loop. → post
Digital Workers: When AI Becomes Part of the Workforce
Runway to Web Summit Rio
Apr 2026 · São Paulo
Panel with Marcelo Echeverria and Gustavo Gorenstein on what changes when agents stop being tools and join the workforce. → post
AI for Leaders — Workshop
AI Bootcamp · Singularity Brazil
Oct 2025 · São Paulo
Workshop with Diego Dalmaso: how leadership teams map AI opportunities and tie them to strategic drivers — from pilot to operation. → post
Hyper-personalization at Scale
Web Summit Rio
Apr 2025 · Rio de Janeiro
Talk with Sergio Lopes dos Santos on what hyper-personalizing experiences really means and what changes in product and data architecture when AI enters the loop. → post
How to Leverage a Technology Partner Network
Rio Innovation Week
Aug 2024 · Rio de Janeiro
Panel on the Conecta Varejo track, with André Abreu (BossaBox) and others, on building and running technology partner ecosystems. → post
AI Panels — Four Editions
Runway to Web Summit Rio
2024 — 2026 · São Paulo
Speaker and host across the four editions of the Web Summit Rio warm-up co-hosted by WEME and BRQ: from copilots to agents, conversational AI in digital products, and digital workers. → post
Research & Writing
Credentials
// Education
  • MBA, Finance — Ibmec
  • Mathematics & Computer Science — Universidade Estácio de Sá
  • Business Management — Centro Universitário SENAC
  • Executive Education — IESE Business School (Leader Coach & Adaptive Leadership), Johns Hopkins (Data Science), FGV (Private Equity & VC), FIA (Systems Thinking), Mackenzie (Marketing)
// Stack & Tooling
Go Python .NET / C# Java LLMs / RAG Multi-model Claude Code Cursor Codex Linux GCP AWS
// Languages
Portuguese (native) · English (fluent) · Spanish (intermediate)
Open Source Activity
// GitHub Contributions
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