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An AI-native solo studio· est. 2020

Software,
with the patience
of a craft.

cbrl is an AI-native studio of one. I design, engineer and polish digital products with AI in the loop at every step — the pace of a team, the focus of a single hand.

Operating from
Manaus / BR
Focus
SaaS · Select custom
002 / Manifesto

How the studio
thinks about the work.

  1. Rigor, no ceremony.

    Care isn't the enemy of speed. When the fundamentals are right — the types, the data model, the state machines — the result arrives fast and it lasts. And nothing ships without being exercised: code, data, real-world scenarios. Rigor is what lets us move without tripping.

  2. AI is the method.

    The studio is designed around it — prototyping, copy, variations, review, tooling. AI multiplies the thought at every step; the human decides what ships. Not a shortcut to mediocrity — the only honest way for one mind to hold the whole product without giving up on the detail.

  3. One operator, ten outputs.

    cbrl is solo by design. The person designing is the person engineering is the person polishing — no handoffs, no diluted intention, no distance between the idea and the thing that ships.

  4. Safety as posture.

    Privacy and data protection aren't retrofits. They're project decisions from the first line — minimal attack surface, credentials well-kept, user data respected. LGPD and security as baseline, not as a checkbox ticked after deploy.

  5. Work in plain view.

    Whoever hires sees what's being built, why, and what comes next. Shared roadmap, documented decisions, zero surprises at sprint's end. Trust is built by showing the middle of the road, not just the finish line.

003 / Featured work
Index of work →
SaaS · B2C · 2026Closed beta

Gabar

An AI-native platform for candidates studying for Brazilian civil service exams. Gabar turns preparation from raw effort into method — a live radar of editais, a personal match score, an adaptive study plan, and a bank of AI-corrected practice questions.

Role
Design · Engineering · Product
Stack
What the problem calls for
Started
Apr 2026
Status
Closed beta
gabar.com.brfig. 01
Specimen
Gabar
Passar em concurso é método.
Edicts
12,430+
Questions
280k
Phase
Closed beta
cbrl / product #001—— 04 / 04
004 / Contact

A well-defined problem is already half the work. Tell me what you are building.

ola@cbrl.dev
Response time
Within 2 business days
Engagements
SaaS · Custom · Advisory
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