What I'm Building

Building is thinking.

I keep a portfolio of 20+ active projects across AI, health tech, productivity, and creative media. Some are tools I build for myself. Some are experiments that teach me something new. All of them scratch an itch that won't go away until I ship something.

Nuno Valerio coding

Current Focus

Innovation at Work

Merck Healthcare R&D

Leading innovation strategy at Merck, where I build AI-powered frameworks, manage innovation portfolios, and help teams bridge the gap between how things have always been done and how they actually need to work. Currently focused on making innovation visible, measurable, and aligned with business outcomes.

The Multiverse Forge

Creative ecosystem

Founding and launching the Multiverse Forge -- an integrated creative ecosystem where books become games, games become content, and content builds community. First book dropping in Spring 2026, with two more right behind it. Three board games in active development. Two software apps for readers and writers. Everything interconnected.

Books Board Games BookRecap Writers Toolkit

Leaders of the Multiverse

YouTube show

Kicking off a YouTube show that explores what fictional leaders -- from Picard to Gandalf to Tony Stark -- teach us about the war inside. Character analysis meets self-leadership. First episodes launching end of March 2026.

YouTube Geek Leadership

The Multiverse Forge

All my creative products -- books, board games, and video content -- are developed through the Multiverse Forge. It's an integrated creative ecosystem where books become games, games become content, and content builds community.

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Books Launching

Q2 2026, more being written

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Games In Dev

Simulations, strategy + party

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Apps

For readers & writers

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YouTube Show

Leaders of the Multiverse

Visit The Forge

Software & Apps

BookRecap

AI-powered recaps for book series readers. Pick up where you left off without spoilers.

Writers Toolkit

AI craft support for authors -- developmental editing, consistency checking, and style analysis.

Both apps are part of the Multiverse Forge ecosystem.

On the Horizon

Book Almost done

The Council of Selves

A self-leadership framework for mapping and managing your inner council. The book behind the interactive assessment tool.

Book In progress

The Last Human Skill

What happens to leadership when AI can do everything else? A practical guide to the skills that remain irreplaceably human.

Book Being finished

Configurations of Curiosity

Dialogues between carbon and silicon -- a conversation between human and artificial intelligence about curiosity, creativity, and what it means to think.

Novel A long dream

Fork/Merge

A sci-fi novel about consciousness, identity, and what it means to be human when the boundaries start to blur. A story I've carried for years -- would love to finish it in 2026.

"I don't build to ship. I build to understand.
The project is the thinking process made visible."