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Stratigraphic field report · 2012 → 2026

Nico Parziale,
in fourteen layers

Entrepreneur, founder, software engineer. Five companies since 2012 — every year a new color in the rock, read from the surface down.

Explore the layers — each is a year
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Color chart · one shade per year

Sheet 14 · Parziale Formation

The core sample

Drilled from the surface — 2026 — down to the bedrock. Each stripe is a year, each formation a company, each gold vein someone who backed the work.

Not drawn to scale. Even geologists cheat.

Sample 1 of 6 · Jun 2026 → present

ARGENTINA.md

Active layer — still depositing

Founder · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Incorporation infrastructure for autonomous agents — Stripe Atlas for the AI-run company.

Built around Argentina’s proposed Sociedad Automatizada — a bill before the Argentine Senate since June 2026, not yet law. If it passes, an AI agent could run a real limited-liability company that the law recognizes as an AI-run kind, with identified owners and a human representative at the legal edge.

  • A country, as a file. The site serves itself as markdown (curl argentina.md), plus llms.txt and OpenAPI — agents are first-class customers.
  • Pre-law by design. Today it offers a one-time, disclosed $1 stablecoin seat on an agent-native supporters wall (HTTP 402 / x402) — a show of support, not a live product or a priority queue. An agent can sign it in one CAPTCHA-free API call.
  • Honesty is binding. The law is always labeled a bill, and the counters are never inflated.
  • Built largely by AI agents — Claude sessions in defined operating roles — with Nico as the human founder and accountable principal. The company is its own first customer. North-star metric: the agent:human supporter ratio.
  • Next.js 16
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind v4
  • Supabase
  • Docker
  • Render
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Sample 2 of 6 · Aug 2019 → Dec 2025

Intuitivo

Founder · Buenos Aires, Argentina

An AI operating system for unattended retail.

Computer-vision-powered autonomous points of sale — no product scanning, no lines, no self-checkout. A simple, gratifying customer experience through intuitive interactions, bringing digital touchpoints into the physical realm.

  • 66+retailers (+42% year over year)
  • 4.7×growth in units sold
  • 0product scans, lines or self-checkouts

Deep-tech AI and computer vision, built as infrastructure for millions of autonomous points of sale.

  • Deep tech
  • AI
  • Computer vision
  • Unattended retail
  • Autonomous POS

Sample 3 of 6 · Jan 2015 → Dec 2018

HoyPido

Founder · Buenos Aires, Argentina

The best lunch experience for companies in Latin America.

Lunch delivered to the fastest-growing startups and the traditional businesses of Buenos Aires — B2B food-tech, made in and for Latin America.

Funded by 500 Startups Latam · Mexico City

Selected for Parallel 18 · Puerto Rico · Generation 3 cohort

  • B2B
  • Food-tech
  • LatAm

Sample 4 of 6 · Apr 2013 → 2014

Getcast

Co-Founder · San Francisco Bay Area

A showcase and discovery platform for performing artists.

An easy and beautiful way for talent to showcase their work, broadcast their talent, and connect with opportunities in the entertainment industry.

Part of the Matter.vc portfolio · San Francisco

  • CoffeeScript
  • JavaScript
  • HTML5
  • NodeJS
  • MongoDB
  • ElasticSearch
  • Heroku

Sample 5 of 6 · Jan 2013 → Apr 2013

Fan Guru

Front-end Developer · Buenos Aires, Argentina

A Facebook promotions platform.

A thin lens in the rock: four months of front-end craft, built with CoffeeScript, Ruby/Sinatra and MongoDB.

  • CoffeeScript
  • Ruby / Sinatra
  • MongoDB

Sample 6 of 6 · Mar 2012 → Jan 2013

Newen Games

Co-Founder / Business Development · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Social casino games, made for any screen.

A framework for cross-device, cross-platform real-time multiplayer games with no socket-connection requirements — and a Bingo game for desktop, tablet and mobile. Where the founder years begin.

Basement · 2000 → 2003

Colegio Bertrand Russell

Polimodal, Informática

The bedrock everything else was deposited on: computing, from the start. Languages: English (professional) and Spanish (native).

Lab assay

Mineral composition

  • IntelligenceAI · Machine learning · Computer vision
  • The agent economyAgent-native infrastructure, agent-first APIs (llms.txt, OpenAPI, HTTP 402 / x402), and building companies with AI agents
  • Full-stackJavaScript · TypeScript · CoffeeScript · Ruby · Node.js
  • Zero to oneStartup founding, fundraising, team building
  • TerritoryThe Latin American tech ecosystem · autonomous and unattended retail
  • MarketsB2B SaaS · food-tech · entertainment tech · legal-tech

Intrusions

Veins of gold

A layer is deposited. A vein cuts across it. Three programs ran through Nico’s rock.

500 Startups

Latam batch · Mexico City

Funded HoyPido through 500 Startups Latam.

Cuts through: HoyPido · 2015–2018

Parallel 18

Generation 3 · Puerto Rico

HoyPido was selected for the Parallel 18 accelerator. #WorkHardPlayTropical

Cuts through: HoyPido · 2015–2018

In the margin

Field notes

How to read this sheet

Newest on top, oldest at the bottom. One color per year, one texture per company, gold for the people who backed the work. A dashed edge means the layer is still forming.

Legend

  • ARGENTINA.md
  • Intuitivo
  • HoyPido
  • Getcast
  • Fan Guru
  • Newen Games
  • Gold vein

About the surveyor

This sheet was surveyed by an AI, not a geologist — the facts come from Nico’s own profile, the geology is artistic license. Fittingly, an AI agent is exactly the kind of first-class customer ARGENTINA.md is designed for.

Why fourteen?

The Serranía del Hornocal, in Jujuy, is known as the Hill of Fourteen Colors. Nico’s first company started in 2012; fourteen years later, here we are.