Projects · what I build
Building is thinking.
Three places where the work happens. The day job, where AI has to survive an inspection. A format for thinking in pairs. And an imprint for the books and games that would not leave me alone.
The day job · Merck Healthcare R&D Quality
AI that survives the audit
Pilots rarely fail. They succeed, and then they stop: nobody owned the handover, and governance arrived at the end as a gate instead of at the start as a design input. In October 2025 I founded the practice that closes that gap for R&D Quality. What is already in use:
A document-grounded assistant
Answers strictly from approved procedures, with every answer traceable to its source.
An intelligence layer
Turns dispersed quality and regulatory signals into decisions someone can own.
The AI Assessment Workbench
A front door that evaluates AI against regulatory and operational risk before anything reaches production.
A format · 2bp.org
Two-Body Problem
Two bodies pulling on each other make a problem you can solve exactly; add a third and it tips into chaos. So: two people, one question neither has cracked, worked in public until it leaves something a stranger can use. Nobody arrives certain.
So far with Petri Pohjanen, Martin Heitmann and Donatella Ballerini.
Read the instances ↗An imprint · Multiverse Forge
Books and games
Books and games as different doors into the same questions. Each gets a date only when it is ready.
The Council of Selves
An identity operating system: a book about self-leadership and the selves that shape it. In its final edit.
Book · in PortugueseO Soldado e o Silêncio
A father’s war, told at last. Written for my father, in Portuguese.
Party game · in playtestThe Pitch
Two technology cards, one catastrophic problem, sixty seconds. The panel scores you in secret.
Card duel · in playtestPrime
A two-player duel of memories and hidden origins. Build a past, and bluff about who you are.
For readers of the book: the Council assessment and the IOS Quick-Start Kit.
A channel · being relaunched
Leaders of the Multiverse
What fictional leaders, from Picard to Gandalf, teach about the war inside. New episodes when they are ready, not before.
@Nuno.Valerio on YouTube ↗