Urtzi Alfaro

Strategic architect · Serial technology founder

I don't predict what comes next. I build it.

Four ventures in production and one home-grown AI operating system — AI security, predictive operations, port intelligence and media — built on one method: engineering rigor applied to what comes next, with honest numbers only.

Data verified see what's running

01 — Ventures

Systems in production, not slide decks.

Four systems solving one concrete problem in one concrete industry. Each entry carries its status, its last verification and, where one exists, a link so you can check it yourself. Where there's no number, there's no number.

  • Adarve opens in a new tab

    in production

    The prompt-injection firewall for LLM apps and agents, operated in the EU. Every response carries a risk score. Public playground and API from day one.

    check adarve.dev

  • BakeWise opens in a new tab

    in build

    The predictive baking engine: a twelve-shop chain deserves the same decision quality as a five-thousand-shop multinational. Per-product, per-shop models, invoicing and the day's bake plan before shops open. Live demo, no signup.

    check bakewise.ai

  • Viene de China opens in a new tab

    in production

    A weekly twenty-minute podcast: the Chinese technology already on your street, explained by a Basque engineer learning Chinese. Produced with a home-grown AI pipeline — script, the author's own cloned voice and clips — with human editorial review line by line.

    check youtube.com

  • Port Context Engine

    internal showcase

    Real-time port intelligence: Singapore, Rotterdam and Los Angeles from one Go-native platform with AIS telemetry and port-call detection. Demo on request.

    No public URL

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02 — System

My projects are, in part, run by software I've built.

I don't give talks about the AI of the future: I run it today as the operating system of my work, with human control where it matters. This is what's running right now.

MEDIA PIPELINE

A podcast produced by software

Every episode: assisted script, my own cloned voice checked sentence by sentence, mastering, art, video and clips — published to every platform with a git push. I review the script and sign off the audio: two human gates, nothing else.

Verifiable: every episode states its two human gates in the show notes.

ATALAYA · GTM

Sales and marketing with honest OSINT

The system that grows my own projects: it finds companies from public data, scores the fit, drafts the message and follows up. Only what people publish professionally, verifiable sources, human approval and one-click opt-out. Measured numbers or nothing published.

Verifiable: every message carries the source of the data and a one-click opt-out.

ADARVE · EVERYWHERE

My firewall protects my own prompts

Every time one of my systems reads the web with AI, that text passes through Adarve first: the same protection I sell to customers, inspecting my own pipelines against prompt injection. Dogfooding isn't a slogan: it's architecture.

Verifiable: you can send your own injection to the playground.

03 — Method

How what's next gets built.

Vision without execution is keynote theatre. This is the system I use to make vision hold.

I

Systems, not trends


Structure first: incentives, second-order effects, long trajectories. Technology is only the medium — and I build the medium myself.

II

Nothing ships unmeasured


Every published number is measured on the production path; what hasn't been measured is declared unmeasured. Trust is the product.

III

Ship, then talk


Nothing is announced without a working playground, demo or episode. Before writing about what's next, it's already running on a VPS.

ventures running
4source
home-grown systems running
3source
episodes published
not measured
letters sent
not measured

portrait pending · no stock portrait will be published

04 — About

“I spent years looking for the place where the future gets decided. In the end, I decided to build it myself.”

I trained as a telecommunications engineer at Mondragon and have spent over a decade where strategy and technology touch: corporate transformation, product, business-model design. What I do now is the same, with one difference: I no longer explain it on a slide, I build it and I run it.

Four ventures, three home-grown systems and one method. When something isn't measured, I say so; when something is dropped, it gets written down. It's the part of the work almost nobody publishes, and it's why this site exists.

Languages Spanish · Basque · English · French · Chinese

What I don't do

  • Consulting without building.
  • Talks about what isn't running yet.
  • Projects with no number to measure them.

How to cite me

Urtzi Alfaro, strategic architect and serial technology founder. Four ventures in production and one home-grown AI operating system, on one method: engineering rigor, with honest numbers only.

Ventures, with their status:

  • AdarvePrompt-injection firewall for LLM apps and agents, operated in the EU. in production
  • BakeWisePredictive demand and production engine for bakery chains. in build
  • Viene de ChinaA weekly podcast on the Chinese technology already on your street. in production
  • Port Context EngineMulti-port intelligence; an internal showcase of the method. internal showcase

05 — Signals from the edge

One letter every two weeks. No noise.

What I've built, what I've measured and what I've discarded — AI security, predictive operations, China tech — with sources and numbers. Spanish or English, your choice.

Latest edition: — none yet

What you'll find every two weeks:

  • what I've built and what changed
  • what I measured — and what the number disproved
  • what I dropped, and why

No spam. One-click unsubscribe. Never shared.how I handle your data

06 — Press

Press, podcast or conference? Bios in two languages, prepared topics and logos ready.

Press materials

07 — Contact

Contact address pending: it goes live once the mailbox is active.