Not designed in a boardroom. Forged in production.
CRAFT Method wasn't designed in a boardroom. It was forged by actually building production software with AI, every day, for months. FIKR Space — a complete startup ecosystem built solo + AI — is the live proof point.
20 years helping Fortune 500 companies transform — SAP, Nordea, Hilti, Metro. Faculty at Porto Business School. 5 published books, 3 of them Amazon bestsellers.
He built a complete software platform — 11 integrated products, hundreds of thousands of lines of code — with AI as his only team member. That experience crystallised what works and what doesn't when developers work with AI at scale.
The patterns were clear: organisations that standardise context, requirements, architecture, flow, and testing for AI get 10x results. Those that don't get chaos. That became CRAFT Method.
“I built 11 products with AI as my only engineer. The method that emerged isn't theory — it's what actually works when you ship production code with AI every single day.”
Building a platform alone taught me what developers really need.
I built a complete software platform — 11 integrated products, hundreds of thousands of lines of code — with AI as my only team member.
I was a developer years ago. I stopped coding day-to-day. But when I came back to build this platform, I realized something: the skills I'd kept — systems thinking, architecture, orchestration — were exactly what AI needed from me.
The coding itself? AI handled that. What AI couldn't do was decide what to build, how to structure it, and when to override its suggestions.
That experience gave me a realization: developers don't need to be replaced — they need to evolve.
The best developers will become architects who direct AI. They'll 10x their productivity, not lose their jobs. But they need to learn a new skill set. This workshop exists because I want to help organizations make this transition. Your developers have the foundation. They just need to learn how to conduct.
— Luis Gonçalves · Founder, CRAFT Method
One architect with AI ships more than ten coders without it.
This isn't about replacing your team. It's about elevating them to where they can deliver 10x more value.
Your team is already using AI. Find out if it's governed.
25 questions. 5 minutes. Know your archetype before the meeting ends.