Mauricio Mota

Figuring out how things should work — then building them.

Hi, I'm Mauricio — a product person who's built at early-stage fintechs that punched above their weight. I get the problem right, then I get it out the door. Fueled mostly by coffee.

Projects

Side projects, shipped end-to-end on my own time. It's how I test whatever new tool or model shows up, on something real that I own.

Cortado's shared household dashboard
LiveMay 2026

Cortado

Household finances with your partner.

Upload your bank statements and it handles the rest: a running balance between you and your partner, every transaction categorized by an LLM engine with a real evals harness behind it, and cryptic bank descriptions turned into clean vendor names. Built end-to-end and held to the same bar as anything I'd ship at work — I'm not going to manage my money with a tool I don't trust.

Clawd, the pixel mascot, keeping watch on the desktop
Open sourceAug 2026

Mascot

Keeps your Mac awake. That's it. That's the app.

I run agents in long sessions, and my Mac kept dozing off in the middle of them. Plenty of keep-awake utilities exist already. None of them come with a little pixel companion that drinks coffee on your desktop, so here we are. It does the keep-awake part properly, using macOS power assertions instead of wiggling your mouse around. No dependencies, no network access.

My vault in Obsidian
In daily useSince early 2026

Claude Code as a personal OS

A memory layer built from plain text files.

Context files, skills, and a task system that Claude and I both read and write — it gets better every time I interact with it. It runs my product work, this blog, and the one-off sessions I keep turning into reusable workflows. The piece that syncs everything across devices became its own open-source tool.

This site is one of them too, built the same way. Read why

Let's talk.

Have a hard product problem, a coffee recommendation, or just want to say hi? I'm around.

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