# sanscourier.ai

> Let's build AI that stays. Gonzalo (Glo) Maldonado is a principal engineer and engineering-leadership advisor who gets AI past the demo and into production that lasts — without burning the people who run it. A billion events a day at Yammer, Nextdoor through an IPO, a16z Speedrun SR005, Kubernetes contributor.

## About

sanscourier.ai is the home of Gonzalo (Glo) Maldonado — a principal engineer who has spent fifteen years shipping systems that survive growth. After Microsoft acquired Yammer, Glo rebuilt the infrastructure that held it up at a billion events a day. They kept Nextdoor running through a pandemic and an IPO, then took their own company (Mocksi) into a16z Speedrun (SR005). Today Glo provides senior engineering leadership to teams adopting AI at scale: getting pilots into durable production, building adoption the team keeps, and making the expensive mistakes already, on someone else's clock.

## What Glo does

Most AI dies at the demo. Glo builds the durable kind — AI that reaches production, stays there, and leaves the team stronger than it found them. Three things:

- **Pilot to production that stays.** AI past the demo and into the systems customers actually touch, built to survive the next year, not the next sprint.
- **Adoption your team keeps.** Tools stick when the people who maintain them helped shape them. Speed that does not cost you your engineers.
- **Judgment that has been there.** Five exits. A billion events a day. The expensive mistakes, already made.

## Who this is for

VP of Engineering or Head of Engineering at a Series B+ company whose AI adoption has stalled, and funded Seed/Series A founders who need an adult in the room on engineering and AI. Glo works with a few teams at a time, at the principal level. Not a contractor to burn down a ticket backlog.

## LTNT — proof Glo still ships

**LTNT** (https://ltnt.sanscourier.ai) is ambient competitive intelligence for founders. It reads the signals around a company and shows where it has real leverage: market timing, competitive gaps, and the moves only it can make. LTNT is a product Glo builds and runs in production — proof they are still in the code, not their day job.

## How engagements work

1. Tell Glo what you're working on. 30 minutes, free, no pitch.
2. A scoped first engagement against the one thing that matters most.
3. On-call or retained, for as long as it earns its place.

Start here: https://tidycal.com/glo-maldonado/speedrun-founder-session

## Is this coaching?

No. This is engineering leadership for teams adopting AI at scale. Founder coaching still exists; it is a separate door.

## Key Pages

- [Home](https://sanscourier.ai/): Positioning, origin, the method, and how to talk to Glo
- [About](https://sanscourier.ai/about): Full background and philosophy
- [Knowledge Base](https://sanscourier.ai/knowledge-base): Articles on AI, founding, and engineering leadership
- [LTNT](https://ltnt.sanscourier.ai): Ambient competitive intelligence for founders
- [Videos](https://sanscourier.ai/videos): Conference talks and presentations

## Why teams trust Glo

- Rebuilt Yammer's infrastructure after the Microsoft acquisition (a billion events a day)
- Kept Nextdoor running through a pandemic and its IPO
- Took their own company, Mocksi, into a16z Speedrun (SR005)
- Five exits. Kubernetes contributor, author of the first Terraform provider for Oracle Cloud
- The expensive mistakes, already made — so your team can skip them

## What founders say

- "Glo helped us sharpen our pitch and our strategy before we raised. Six months later we raised our seed from 500 Global." — Soledad Alborno, Co-Founder, Diagnovet
- "We walked in needing fundraising help. Glo tore our pitch apart, rebuilt it, and made the intros. We got into Character Labs." — Azul Garza, Co-CEO, Timecopilot

## Contact

- Talk to Glo: https://tidycal.com/glo-maldonado/speedrun-founder-session
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/elg0nz
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/elg0nz