// ABOUT

Ricardo Mota

I'm an automation engineer based in Braga, Portugal. I specialize in connecting tools that weren't designed to talk to each other — CRMs, e-commerce platforms, AI APIs, ERPs — and making them work as a single coherent system.

My stack is centered around n8n and less.tech for orchestration, with OpenAI and Claude models wired in wherever intelligence adds real value. On the business side I work mostly with HubSpot, Shopify, and Moloni — the tools that run real operations.

When I'm not building automations, I'm usually exploring what the latest models can actually do in production — not benchmarks, real workflows.

// WORK PHILOSOPHY

Automate the boring

If a human is doing it more than twice, a machine should be doing it. I look for repetitive friction and wire it away.

AI as leverage

Language models aren't magic — they're powerful tools that slot into real workflows. I build the pipes that make them useful.

Ship, then refine

A working automation beats a perfect spec every time. I ship fast, observe, and iterate based on real data.

Systems thinking

Every integration affects something downstream. I design flows that are observable, debuggable, and resilient to change.

41.5454° N, 8.4265° W // BRAGA, PT