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Hi, I’m Richard.

Dropped out of college to help my dad grow his health insurance agency from 3 to a 50-person company. Left Chicago to travel the world [25 countries so far]. Owned a hostel along the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Started a small nonprofit cultural center that grew into a social enterprise active in 15 cities across 11 countries. Since then I have been mentoring , working as an advisor, and building AI agents.

In my free time, I enjoy creating and contributing to open-source projects. Away from the screen, you’ll usually find me traveling in the van with my partner, skarabo, playing padel or spending time in nature with my dog, Layka.

Building something worth talking about? Let’s talk.

What’s new

22 Jul 2026 My first open-source contribution landed in Hermes A bug kept swallowing completed agent work after long conversations compressed. I found it, fixed it, and became an official Hermes contributor.

26 Jun 2026 Training Taste Why AI makes taste more important than ever

18 May 2026 Three hours a week for social good I’m reserving three hours each week to help nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, social enterprises, and community projects think through the hard stuff. No pitch and no invoice.

20 Jun 2026 I built a dog shelter website. Fork it. CAPA needed a working site, not another generic charity template. I open-sourced the platform so another local shelter can start from something real.

10 Jul 2026 Founders are terrible at taking breaks Your project can consume your entire field of vision. Sometimes the productive move is closing the laptop and meeting other builders.