Projects
The businesses, products and channels I'm building, and the essays about them.
Now
- Ricardo Makes Videos
The equipment, ideas, and approaches I’m exploring as I learn to make content.
- Ricardo Moves
Documenting my journey from a sedentary lifestyle back into athleticism.
- Websites by Ricardo
Websites made by me, working directly with you. The personal brand evolution of Vertex Platform Solutions.
Earlier
- Tender Intel
Multi-tenant white-label SaaS for public sector tender tracking, bid management, and compliance. Any vertical, one platform.
- Marathon Trainer
Personal training tracker built for a June 2025 half-marathon in Japan. Structured data, voice logging, and a dashboard that actually fits how I train.
- Bid Stats
Data-layer API for collecting, normalising, and searching UK government tenders from Contracts Finder and Find a Tender Service.
- Dev Foundry
Astro-based AI-first boilerplate to launch SaaS in hours, not days.
- Booking System
UK-focused multi-tenant SaaS booking platform with pluggable service profiles for detailing, tattoo, aesthetics, and beyond.
- MCP Server GSC Pro
36-tool MCP server wrapping the full Google Search Console API with computed intelligence layers for AI-driven SEO workflows.
- tmux-whspr
Local-first voice dictation for the terminal — record, transcribe, and paste without leaving tmux.
- Vertex Platform Solutions
Solo web dev agency shipping Astro sites with AI-assisted workflows. Half the internet shouldn't be WordPress.