I'm Ricardo Krug, founder and programmer. I build automation tools for businesses, mostly out of my work on Desio, and I write about that process.

2026-10-08 · 23 min read

90 Minutes and a Lunch: How AI Is Really Regulated

90 minutes to cut off foreign users. A pledge signed over lunch. That is how AI is regulated now, and I argue builders deserve a published rule.

• ai
• regulation
• policy
• finance

• 2026-09-10

  Welcome, world

  The first post on this site, on why it exists and what I plan to put here.

  1 min

• Main project · in production

  Desio

  Desio gives restaurants a platform to bring their customers back more often.

  desio.app

Since 2007

I build for the web. First job: intern at the Instituto Municipal de Administração Pública de Curitiba, with Drupal and Joomla.

2016–2022

Introcrim, my first startup: online education for law students. More than 1,500 post-graduate students and R$1 million in scholarships.

2019–2022

Master's at USP. Thesis: law is itself a technology of social control.

Desio

I built it and run it in production.

Consulting

I do private consulting.

Teaching

I taught criminal law and criminology online for six years.

I take on automation projects and teach teams to build their own — AI Automation