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Ninho Tech

Every project we deliver is a thread that gets woven into the nest

Consulting, software products and AI · remote, from Brazil

We advise companies in Brazil and abroad and build software products with them, bringing our AI expertise from the first idea to production. All our profits fund the Ninho Project, which has educated children in vulnerable situations since 2016.

  • Founded by engineers from Google and Accenture
  • AI running in production in Brazil and abroad
  • A top-30 New York-based biotech pharmaceutical company among our clients
  • 40+ years of combined experience
  • All profits fund children's education

01

Financial services · One platform for every AI agent

A new agent is configuration, not code.

A mid-size financial-services company needed its AI agents to stop being one-off software projects. Each new agent took a developer and a deploy, and its safety depended on who had built it.

We rebuilt the service as a platform where an agent is a document, not code, and where safety, limits, audit and human approval come built in. Six agents run on it in production today, across chat, voice and the company's app, one of them written by the client's own security team.

Financial services · AI agents · Platform

agent definition

  • Model
  • Persona
  • Tools
  • Knowledge
  • Limits
  • Approvals
  1. Input screened
  2. Tools run, results screened
  3. Answer screened
  4. A person approves sensitive actions
  5. Every action recorded
  • WhatsApp
  • Voice
  • Slack
  • App
  • Schedule

Running in production

6
AI agents in production
≤ 5 min
from a published change to live, with no deploy
~30 s
to switch off an agent or a tool
12,000+
automated tests passing at release

More threads for the nest

Like every project we create, it helps fund quality education for children in need through the Ninho Project.

02Same client as the project above

Financial services · An AI software factory

People decide and review. AI agents build.

The platform above was built with our software factory: one engineer directing AI agents through a written method, with the client's engineers reviewing every change.

The agents build in parallel and check each other's work before a person sees it, and people keep every decision: what gets built, what is merged and what goes to production. In 37 days the factory completed more than four times the changes a team of four had completed in the 37 days before, with no rollback in production.

Financial services · AI agents · Software delivery

  • People
  • AI agents

0pull requests opened

  1. Decide
  2. Plan
  3. Build
  4. Review
  5. Test
  6. Approve
  7. Release
The 37 days before · four engineers
105 merged
These 37 days · one engineer directing AI agents
445 merged
4.2x
merged changes against the 37 days before
3:1
lines of test for every line of product code
100%
of merged changes approved by a person
0
rollbacks in 18 production releases

More threads for the nest

Like every project we create, it helps fund quality education for children in need through the Ninho Project.

03

Top-30 biopharma · AI for clinical trial protocols

Converts clinical trial protocols to the new global standard in minutes.

Every clinical trial is defined by a protocol, the document that describes how the study runs. A new global standard, ICH M11, changes how these documents are written. A top-30 New York-based biotech pharmaceutical company engaged us to build open-source AI tools that make the switch simpler, free for any team to use.

Medical writers upload an existing protocol and, within minutes, get it in the new format, with gaps flagged and every section traceable to the original. Instead of rewriting, they review.

It runs anywhere, including regulated pharmaceutical environments. And it shows that highly regulated work, like clinical trials, can be faster and easier to deliver than expected when the rules are well written, as they are in ICH M11.

Life sciences · AI · Open source

Existing protocolNew formatTraceable to the originalGap flaggedReview

More threads for the nest

Like every project we create, it helps fund quality education for children in need through the Ninho Project.

04

In-house product · An AI practice tutor for schools

The AI asks the questions. The student does the thinking.

An AI tutor that lets students from 6th to 9th grade practise one curriculum skill at a time, in conversation. It works from material written by their teacher and only asks questions: it never hands over the answer.

When the conversation ends, a second AI suggests a grade and shows the teacher where the student got stuck. The grade is the teacher's to give. The tool runs on our own agent platform, and we are refining it with the teachers of the Ninho Project's school before taking it to other schools.

Education · AI agents · In-house product

Practice session

  1. AI tutor

    If the denominator doubles, what happens to the fraction?

  2. Student

    It gets bigger.

  3. HintCompare 1/4 and 1/8 of the same bar.

  4. What do you notice now?

After the last answer

The AI suggests

Where the student got stuck

The grade is the teacher's

Choose a grade

4
school years covered, from 6th to 9th grade
12+
questions before the tutor may end a session
2
AI agents: one asks, the other suggests the grade
100%
of final grades given by a teacher

More threads for the nest

This thread goes straight into the nest: the tool is built for the Ninho Project's own classrooms.

02What we do

Six ways to work with us. The first three are where most of our recent work has been.

  • 01

    One engineer directs AI agents through a written method, and a person reviews every change.

    We run it on your backlog or set it up inside your team: the method, the shared rules every agent loads and the review gates.

    Proven inAn AI software factory
  • 02

    One service where all of a company's AI agents run, with safety and approvals built in.

  • 03

    AI tools that work inside your rules and restrictions.

  • 04

    AI strategy, process and architecture advice.

  • 05

    We build the tool your operation needs, then run it for a monthly fee.

  • 06

    General development, from concept to launch.

Every line we write ends up here.

03Why we exist

The Ninho Project is a non-profit school program led by our co-founder Hermes Junior since 2016. It gives children from low-income families excellent formal education, from 1st to 9th grade, and works alongside their families and their community.

All profits from our commercial projects go to it. Whatever we build for a client, part of it ends up here.

Meet the Ninho Project

The work feeds the project in a second way. On the same agent technology we deliver to clients, we are building AI learning tools for its students, with teachers reviewing what the AI prepares.

From a project to a classroom

  1. 01

    A client hires us

  2. 02

    We deliver the project

  3. 03

    A big part of the profit goes to the Ninho Project

  4. 04

    A child gets quality education

The project's four values, in its own words

Educate
Excellent formal education from 1st to 9th grade.
Strengthen
Support for families, by listening and by reinforcing healthy bonds.
Transform
A stronger community through solidarity work and support networks.
Multiply
Documented processes and measured impact, so the knowledge can be shared.

04Team

Search engineers who helped build Google in Brazil, product people and a creative director, working as one team.

Hermes Junior

Hermes Junior

Founder & Engineering Lead

  • Google
  • Akwan

Founded Akwan, acquired by Google in 2005. Nearly two decades at Google. Has led the Ninho Project since 2016.

Rafael Eufrázio

Rafael Eufrázio

Founder & Product Lead

  • Accenture

Mechatronic engineer with Accenture experience. Founded and led startups from concept to launch.

Berthier Ribeiro-Neto

Berthier Ribeiro-Neto

Ambassador & Advisor

  • Google
  • Akwan
  • UME

Co-founded Akwan, became Google's first employee in Brazil. Led the BH engineering center for nearly 19 years.

Herbert Freitas

Herbert Freitas

Executive Creative & UX Director

  • R/GA
  • Cannes Lions

Creative and UX director, leads digital projects in Brazil and Latin America for clients such as Google and Heineken.

Gustavo Bartholomeu

Gustavo Bartholomeu

Data & Software Engineer

  • USP

Computer scientist from USP with MBA in data science. Expert in data pipelines and modern architecture.

05Contact

Tell us what you need. The first conversation is free and commits you to nothing.

Or write to us directly

contato@ninho.tech

Remote team, based in Brazil