Lewis Byron De La Paz
Founder · Operator · Technologist · Creative Director
- info@lewisdelapaz.com
- Florida, United States
- lewisdelapaz.com
Builds businesses from the system and UX outward. Founder of a consulting practice and of ten software and research products, each designed, engineered, launched and run end to end. Strongest where operations, artificial intelligence and design meet: the cadence and controls a business runs on, the software that carries them, and the brand that makes them legible.
Selected experience
- Built a consulting practice across strategy, brand, build, growth and legal: sixteen named capabilities in five categories, priced on value rather than hours.
- Designed and engineered the delivery system behind it: diagnostic, business-plan builder with a live financial model, client portal with e-signature, proposal builder, six deliverable studios, finance back office and KPI dashboard.
- Mapped 267 services into a coverage model used to scope every engagement.
- Built one system for the whole federal contract, start to finish: find the opportunity, capture it, price and write the bid, win it, run the contract and its agreements, track the money with an audit-ready record, and be ready for the recompete.
- Designed the ingestion, entity resolution, price-to-win and recompete scoring that turn a dozen government systems into four answers: who buys, who won, what it went for, and what renews next. Twelve public feeds, 83.2M+ awards on record, 1,012 industry codes.
- Shipped the product, the course, the subscription layer and the public site, for a customer from one person up to a contracts organization with many teams. Public sources only, by design.
- Designed and shipped a personal operating system that consolidates seventy-eight life systems around a native AI assistant.
- Built money management with live bank sync, family sharing and billing, packaged for the web, as an installable app and for the Microsoft Store. Hundreds of releases in the first months.
- Founded a mnemonic-first language learning company: ten languages at launch, a keyword image for every word, and a forgetting-curve scheduler held on the server.
- Built the classroom layer into the same schema: classes, five kinds of assignment, a gradebook and per-word loss reporting.
- Built a social planning platform around a small refundable hold that turns a group chat into a commitment, with clubs, shared albums and a rating that records turning up rather than rating a person.
- Built an AI counsel for divorce sourced from each state's own rules, with twelve documents drafted from the case and nine kinds of licensed professional bookable by the hour.
- Built a care platform for the weeks after a death, for caregiving and for leave: five products in one secure app, each plan carrying a trained care specialist.
- Built an agent-based simulator that turns a company's own files into a model of itself and runs four hundred replications of a scenario in about a tenth of a second.
- Built a household operating system in six layers, with a parser that turns a plan typed in plain words into the event, the tasks, the list and the costs behind it.
- Built a world simulator of seven coupled blocks over 238 countries and 54,000 sub-national places, returning 250 clustered futures a run as distributions rather than point estimates.
- Built a knowledge map of close to two billion nodes across 113 realms that runs a daily research cycle over ten fronts and publishes a report.
- Three self-published non-fiction books. Product and short films from script to cut. Rebuilt a fifty-five page client practice site end to end, with transactional mail behind its forms.
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