AI Products & Startup Portfolio

AI-native products for education, financial data, and developer automation in Brazil

BRS12 is a solo-builder AI product lab led by Rodrigo da Silva Souza, focused on building practical AI products for the Brazilian market using LLMs, agents, cloud infrastructure, and automation.

Building in public

96
GitHub Repositories
36
Active Projects (30 days)
888
Commits (90 days)
5
Public Product Environments
Focus: AI Education, Financial Data, LLM Gateways, Agents & Automation

Built by an experienced software architect

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Rodrigo da Silva Souza

Software Architect / AI Product Builder / Founder

Brazil

Rodrigo da Silva Souza is a Brazilian software architect and AI product builder with experience across public-sector portals, enterprise systems, open banking, education technology, APIs, microservices, frontend/backend development, Linux/server administration, and cloud-based product development.

His academic background combines postgraduate degrees in Software Architecture, Data Science & Big Data Analytics, and IT Project Management, plus degrees in IT Management and Pedagogy — a unique combination that informs both the technical depth and the educational focus of his AI products.

Technical Stack

Java Python Kotlin PHP C# Spring Boot Flask Next.js React Vue.js TypeScript Docker Kubernetes Jenkins SQL Server MySQL Oracle LLM Gateways MCP Servers AI Agents

Brazil needs AI products adapted to local workflows

Complex Documents

Public exams, government notices, and legal documents are dense, bureaucratic, and hard to study. Millions of candidates need structured, AI-processed study materials.

Fragmented Financial Data

Brazilian financial market data (B3, stocks, options) is scattered across sources. Traders and analysts need AI assistants that understand local context.

Generic Global Tools

Most AI tools are designed for English-speaking markets. Brazilian Portuguese, local data formats, and regional business workflows demand specialized adaptation.

A portfolio of AI-native products

BRS12 builds practical AI products that combine LLMs, agents, structured data pipelines, document understanding, chat interfaces, automation, and cloud infrastructure — all adapted for Brazilian Portuguese and local market needs.

Live AI products

Public

Pílulas Concursos

AI education platform that transforms long official exam notices into structured summaries, study plans, flashcards, learning pills, and contextual chat experiences for Brazilian public exam candidates.

AI use case: Document understanding, structured generation, long-form text processing, educational content automation
copilot.pilulasconcursos.com.br
Public

Power ENEM

AI-assisted learning platform for ENEM, Brazil's national high school exam. Simplifies study paths, revision, practice, and learning engagement for one of the country's main university admission paths.

AI use case: Structured study plans, knowledge extraction, adaptive learning, chat-based tutoring
powerenem.com.br
Public

Copilot B3

AI assistant for Brazilian financial market data, B3 workflows, quotes, options, market data integrations, and AI-assisted analysis. Focus on Brazilian stock market intelligence.

AI use case: Financial data analysis, market intelligence, AI copilots for local trading workflows
copilotb3.brs12.com.br
Advanced dev

Acordo Garantido

Agreement and trust-flow platform for transactions, validation, payment, and delivery between parties. AI can assist with agreement review, risk analysis, summarization, and workflow automation.

AI use case: Agreement review, risk analysis, summarization, workflow automation, user assistance
acordogarantido.com.br
Public

Clipping BRS12

SaaS for YouTube transcription, clipping, and content processing workflows. Uses AI to process long-form video content into structured text, summaries, clips, and reusable knowledge assets.

AI use case: Content transcription, summarization, knowledge extraction, long-form video processing
clipping.brs12.com.br
Advanced dev

AI Tooling & Observability

Internal and public tools around LLM gateways, LiteLLM-based infrastructure, CLI tools, Hermes Agent workflows, MCP servers, AI memory infrastructure, and observability for model usage — monitoring token usage, costs, and anomalies.

AI use case: Model routing, cost observability, agent infrastructure, MCP servers, AI memory systems
Internal / selected public components

How AI is used

LLM-Based Document Understanding

Processing complex legal, regulatory, and educational documents into structured knowledge — summaries, flashcards, study plans, and searchable indexes.

AI-Assisted Coding & Product Development

Deep integration of LLMs into the development workflow: code generation, review, debugging, architecture design, and full-stack product building with AI copilots.

Agent-Based Development Workflows

Hermes Agent and multi-agent orchestration for complex tasks — code review pipelines, multi-model comparison, automated testing, and structured output verification.

Model Routing & Comparison

Multi-model architecture comparing Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, and Claude across tasks — routing to the best model for each workload.

Structured Generation

JSON-mode output for study plans, flashcards, summaries, and data pipelines — reliable structured data from unstructured inputs.

Financial Data Analysis & Market Copilots

AI systems that understand B3 tickers, options chains, market data formats, and Brazilian financial workflows — providing analysis and insights.

Content Transcription & Knowledge Extraction

AI pipelines that convert long-form video and audio into structured text, summaries, clips, and searchable knowledge bases.

Future: LoRA / Fine-Tuning for Brazilian Portuguese

Planned specialization of AI models for Brazilian Portuguese public exam preparation, legal documents, and educational content — building on accumulated domain data.

Why Alibaba Cloud

BRS12 adopted Alibaba Cloud as one of its reference AI providers because of its cost/performance, model availability, and delivery quality. Alibaba Cloud has been effective for development with Qwen and other model families, and the next step is to scale usage through startup support, model credits, infrastructure credits, and technical guidance.

Model families in use

Qwen

Reasoning, delegation, and general agent workflows

DeepSeek & Kimi

Coding, software development, and large-context workflows

GLM & MiniMax

Model comparison, structured generation, and routing

Wan & Qwen Image

Future visual generation and educational asset creation

Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

APIs, agents, databases, object storage, and async job processing

Current scaling needs

Model & Token Credits

Scaled access to Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, and visual models for growing product usage and experimentation.

ECS / Cloud Compute

Compute resources for APIs, agent execution, async job workers, and production-grade service hosting.

Managed Databases & Object Storage

Persistent storage for structured educational data, market data, user content, and document processing pipelines.

Queues & Async Processing

Job queues and async workers for document processing, content extraction, and AI pipeline orchestration at scale.

Vector Search / Semantic Search

Semantic search infrastructure for educational content, document retrieval, and knowledge base queries.

LoRA / Fine-Tuning for Portuguese

Training infrastructure and guidance for fine-tuning models specialized in Brazilian Portuguese education and legal domains.

Tech guidance: Production deployment best practices, architecture reviews, and cloud optimization for AI-native workloads.

Let's build AI for Brazil

I'm building practical AI products for the Brazilian market — education, financial data, developer tooling, and automation. If you're from a startup program, cloud provider, or interested in collaborating, let's talk.

Name Rodrigo da Silva Souza
Role Software Architect / AI Product Builder
Phone / WhatsApp +55 61 99226-2767