From idea to validated MVP with AKILI-SPECS
Six steps to go from an idea to a validated MVP: problem, customer, market, assumptions, demand and, last, building it with AKILI-SPECS.
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Juan Carlos Cadavid Ruiz
CTO and Co-founder of Akili
Juan Carlos Cadavid Ruiz
CTO and Co-founder of Akili
Leads architecture, software and AI delivery at Akili.
Akili (GOFRU S.A.S) is an AI and software engineering consultancy founded in Cali, Colombia, in June 2017. Juan Carlos co-founded it as AgroSmart, an agritech for the coconut sector of the Colombian Pacific. That led to GoFruver, an e-commerce platform that connected rural producers with the city. In those years the company took part in Colombian innovation programs such as Apps.co and Fondo Emprender.
Today he designs hierarchies of AI agents with LangChain and LangGraph and deploys them with Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore and AgentCore Gateway. He also created AKILI-SPECS, the open spec-driven development methodology Akili uses to build its software.
He has more than 15 years of experience building software, cloud platforms and automation. Before Akili he was CTO of Almacenes La 13 and a software engineer at Carvajal Tecnología y Servicios. He is a systems engineer from Universidad de Ibagué, a Specialist in Software Development Processes from Universidad de San Buenaventura, and holds the AWS Certified AI Practitioner and Google Generative AI Leader certifications.
- Google Generative AI Leader
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Articles by Juan Carlos Cadavid Ruiz
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What Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is, what Runtime, Gateway and Memory are for, how it works with LangGraph and when it beats n8n. A guide for companies.
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What an AI agent is, how it differs from a chatbot and from an automation workflow, and the steps to build one for your company without losing control.
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Google announced more visible links, an official-sites section in testing and more article carousels in its AI answers. What it means for your website.
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Uber went from a 1,000-person pilot to rolling out ChatGPT Work across the company. What it did before scaling and what other companies can replicate.
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