Hi, I'm Rico.

My father once brought home a smuggled i486sx computer. My brothers and I promptly took it apart to see how it worked. We fiddled and tweaked and taught ourselves everything we could about computers, and I have been doing a version of that ever since.

The first years of working life were IT-adjacent: support, education, explaining things to people who did not want to be explained to. Then a decade of Agile and Scrum, absorbing how groups of people bring ideas to life. Somewhere in there I noticed that half the tools teams needed were born out of a spreadsheet and a repetitive process — so I started building them. Companion and BeanStalk came from that realisation.

I coached startup CEOs through the Mochary Method for a few years. I no longer identify as a Mochary Method coach, but the habits stuck, and I fold them into my agile coaching wherever they earn their place. The lines between "communication architecture" and "workflow design" were always thinner than people claimed.

These days I manage fleets of AI agents — klankers, which is my word for AI agents that do real work — at Unblock Labs. I still coach agile teams through Agilar, and I still build: mostly Elixir, plenty of Bubble, and the bridge between the two. The biggest leverage I have found is not in the code. It never was.

Outside of work I cook, bake bread, take photographs, and lift heavy things.