hey, I’m

Julio Canares

Founder, Product & Engineering

I build companies — product, sales, and operations.Code is my superpower.

Julio Canares

Companies

Three companies. One thesis: software built from inside the operation.

  • Riqra

    Ecommerce platform for distributors — portal, D2C, and WhatsApp with commercial AI.

    Ecommerce Platform, AI Agents

  • Ciro

    Retail intelligence for brands — sell-out, inventory, and forecasts in one daily view.

    BI, Retail

  • Nutrifit

    Sports-supplement distributor in Peru — the operator's seat behind the software.

    Distribution, Retail

Work with me

My companies come first, but I keep room for the right partners and a few teams.

Start a company with me

You bring a problem, market insight, and access to customers. I bring product and engineering experience.

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Make your engineering team AI-native

Redesign the product engineering workflow so AI increases delivery capacity without adding chaos.

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Latest writing

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  • How many things still start only with you?

    The close of the series: the eight areas that tell you whether AI is multiplying your team or just your review load — and a scorecard to find your lowest number.

  • We stopped working one thing at a time

    Julio, this raised my productivity at least 3x. Worktrees let one engineer run several agents on different features in parallel — but only because the system underneath was ready.

  • I stopped being the documentation

    Julio, how does this work? Every how-do-we-do-it-here question landed on me — I was the documentation. Moving that context into the repo ended the questions, and it's why an agent shipped a complete feature on the first try.