I'm Cláudio Fernandes. I've co-founded ten companies across performance marketing, ad-tech, content and AI. Today, my focus is Gravitnomad and applied AI.
Twenty-five years ago I started building digital companies because I wanted to ship product, not pitch it. That bias hasn't moved. Every venture I've co-founded began with an engineering question and a market that hadn't been served yet.
Today, that same instinct is pointed at applied AI through Gravitnomad — small teams, real systems in production, long horizons. Less narrative, more code.
The interesting work, to me, lives at the intersection of operating experience and frontier technology. That's where I spend my time.
"I build during the day what others promise in PowerPoint."
My focus today is Gravitnomad — a holding and venture platform that turns nearly two decades of operating experience into the next chapter of digital businesses, with applied AI at the centre.
I work from Porto, building products with small teams and long horizons. Applied AI is the spine of what we ship: practical, in-production systems — not slides.
Alongside company-building, I develop business concepts, operating models and applied-AI frameworks that explore how organisations will work in the next technological cycle.
Some are product ideas. Some are papers. Some are strategic frameworks. All of them come from the same place: years of building digital businesses, now combined with applied AI.
A model for turning high-value advisory work into repeatable, software-assisted products. Moving consulting away from bespoke hours and towards structured diagnosis, AI-assisted delivery, reusable assets and measurable outcomes.
A paper and framework about how companies can become more intelligent as systems — not only by adopting AI tools, but by improving how they capture knowledge, make decisions, coordinate people and learn from execution.
A concept for measuring the business return of AI. Beyond traditional ROI, Return on Intelligence looks at how AI increases organisational speed, decision quality, automation capacity, knowledge leverage and productive output per person.
Adclick is born at UPTEC, in Porto.
Operations begin in Brazil with Beeleads.
Adclick ranked 44th.
Constitution of the operational holding. Adclick elected by Deloitte as the fastest-growing Portuguese company.
Adclick named "Best Tertiary Sector Company in Portugal" (Portugal Fazemos Bem).
Founding of Pushnews. Explorer Investments invests in Smarkio. Group consolidated revenue exceeds 10M€.
Completes the Owner / President Management programme. Executive education also at Stanford SVOD and Cheung Kong GSB.
Co-founded venture dedicated to applied artificial intelligence.
Current focus — holding and venture platform for applied AI, from Porto.
Personal applied-AI lab — prototypes, tools and automation systems built with AI-assisted development. Interfaces, agents, workflows and experiments shipped from Porto with small teams and fast iteration. Less slides. More systems.
Ten companies built across two decades — performance marketing, ad-tech, content, marketing automation, open-source AI, and the current focus: Gravitnomad and applied AI.
Digital publisher in finance, lifestyle, insurance, education and health. Operations in more than 26 countries. Co-founded with Nuno Morais and Pedro Roque.
Performance media in the Brazilian market. Clients: Vivo, Claro, TIM, Itaú, Peugeot, Santander, Unicef.
Holding company that unifies the entire group of digital businesses.
Self-service PPC platform for inbox advertising. 30M+ users across 15 countries.
360 technology with chatbot CMS. 1848% CAGR growth. Exit completed. Clients: EDP, Itaú, Porto Seguro, Citibank.
Real-time platform for content publishers, scaled across multiple countries.
Astrology and well-being content. 4 languages, 20+ countries, 10M+ monthly visits.
Professional services built on the group's accumulated technology know-how.
Open-source models among the most downloaded on Hugging Face.
Co-founded venture dedicated to applied artificial intelligence for business.
Current chapter: holding and venture platform aggregating the next generation of applied-AI products from Porto.
Curated from public sources — approved by Cláudio.
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