Gonçalo Louzada

I run operations and ship AI tools.

Ten years at the leadership layer, hands on AI for the last three.

Former CEO. Built products. Scaled a company. Closed what wasn't working.

BASED IN PORTUGAL · REMOTE

01 / About

Gonçalo Louzada

I've spent a decade at the leadership layer. Four years as CEO of Whitesmith, scaling it from €1M to €2M with a team of around thirty and healthy margins. In between I co-founded Qold, took it to paying customers, then shut it down when the unit economics didn't stack up.

Now I build the systems and processes that let companies execute without chaos. I've also been shipping AI tools in production for the last three years, both inside Whitesmith and for clients.

Background in biomedical engineering, which still comes in useful for healthtech work.

02 / Currently

Now Open to Chief of Staff, Head of Operations, and Founder's Associate roles. Also taking on fractional engagements helping founders identify and automate internal processes.

03 / Built

Internal Reporting System

Recovered ~40 hours/month at Whitesmith by replacing manual reporting with an LLM-powered pipeline.

Claude · Make · Gumloop

AI Bumblebee

LLM-powered business AI readiness assessment. Helps founders and leadership teams identify where AI actually fits in their operations.

LLM APIs · Web app

BriefTorch

Chrome extension that summarises web pages with GPT. Built end-to-end and shipped to the Chrome Web Store.

Chrome extension · GPT

Personal automation system

Agentic workflow for document analysis and content generation. Built in Cowork to handle structured information processing.

Cowork · Claude

04 / Experience

2025
bloq.it Senior Success Manager covering DHL eCommerce and enterprise escalations.
2015 — 2025
Whitesmith Joined in product & ops, left as Managing Director. Product & Ops
Head of Product & Ops
CEO
Managing Director
2015 — 2017
Qold Co-founder & CEO. Started inside Whitesmith, taken to paying customers, then wound down.
2013 — 2014
AIRC & ISA Product Engineer.
2008 — 2013
Universidade de Coimbra MSc, Biomedical Engineering. Thesis on cloud-based medical data integration.

05 / Contact

Hiring or building something? I'm open to full-time roles and fractional work. Easiest way to reach me is email.