§ About · Flávia Monteiro

Economist and designer by training. AI builder by choice.

Fifteen years of strategic consulting before. Three years building with AI. Two co-founded companies. One system running in production.

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II Build.

Production artificial intelligence systems. Today, a multi-agent fiscal intelligence system runs in a Brazilian state. Co-founded Sentie.AI (AI applied to the public sector) and Idens (AI consulting-studio). Leading architecture and technical strategy.

III Think.

About what it means to build AI in a structurally hostile environment. About who controls the infrastructure and who doesn't. I read alignment papers, not just abstracts. I write the newsletter Human Before AI. Studying AI & Digital Transformation at Oxford (Saïd). In 2026 I opened the study Who is the dentist?, on how AIs in Portuguese associate gender with professions.

IIIFoundation.

Before AI, fifteen years of strategic management. Consulting for Natura, Coca-Cola, Court of Justice of Ceará, state governments of DF, Alagoas and Ceará, Fundação Dom Cabral. Degrees in Economics and Graphic Design. Specialization from Copenhagen Business School.

IVBody.

Mental performance runs in a closed loop with the organic. Triathlon gives me the body as a data system built on sleep, effort and load. I see biology as infrastructure that demands serious engineering.

§ Material timeline

2026 —
Oxford Saïd · AI & Digital Transformation
2026 —
Idens · co-founder, strategy partner
2024 —
Sentie.AI · co-founder
2023 —
Started researching machine intelligence on November 6.
—2021
Instituto Publix · public management consultant
—2014
Fundação Dom Cabral Associate · management consultant
—2014
Fundação Dom Cabral · leadership & innovation
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Economics (BA) · Graphic Design (BA) · Copenhagen Business School

§ Reading & References

Texts and books that ground my perspective on technology, economics, and design.

Tech & Society

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff

Foundational for understanding how digital infrastructures shape power and economic behavior.

Design & Systems

Thinking in Systems

Donella H. Meadows

The essential manual for anyone who needs to build or intervene in complex environments.

Economics

The Value of Everything

Mariana Mazzucato

A critical reflection on who extracts value and who actually produces it in the digital economy.

§ Elsewhere

§ Open to

Conversations about applied AI, governance, research and building in the public sphere. Write an e-mail