Manuel David

Founding engineer at Configure, San Francisco

I moved to San Francisco and went all in.

Founder of Paradigm and Nouvo before this. Every word out here is a real piece of that run.

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Who I am, before what I do.

Manuel walking barefoot on a beach at sunset, hands in his pockets, smiling

I moved to San Francisco, a city I had never once set foot in, and went all in on building. I could see where everything was heading and I refused to miss it, so I stopped waiting for a future to be handed to me and came out here to grab it with my own hands. There is too much happening right now to sit still.

I am future-focused to a fault. I move fast, I work harder than I probably should, and I would rather grind my way to something real than coast the safe, slow route to something ordinary. If I want a life where I win, I do not wait my turn for it. I reach out and take it. Everything I have built, I built that way.

I am a believer, and I stay faithful to God. That is a real part of who I am, the foundation the rest of my life is built on top of. And when I look at how every single piece has fallen into place to get me here, I have no doubt there is a plan for my life. I am exactly where I am supposed to be, and I am just getting started.

The work runs in one line: a studio, then a company, then the wall that company kept hitting.

Configure

Founding Engineer
2026 to now

configure.dev
Manuel on stage in front of the Claude Build Day screen, June 13, San Francisco

Context infrastructure for AI agents. One profile that travels with you across every agent you use. I was a customer first. Then I joined to build it.

I was a Configure customer before I was ever on the team. I found it while running Paradigm, and the first time I plugged it in I could feel where this was going. Agents are about to be everywhere, and every one of them wakes up knowing nothing about you. Configure fixes that. It is the connective tissue for the world of agents that is coming, the layer that lets any agent recognize you and carry your context with you instead of starting from zero every single time.

By then I had built a lot of agents, and I had solved the context problem badly a dozen different ways. Paradigm is where I ran straight into it: I kept rebuilding the same memory, the same profile, the same who-is-this-person plumbing for every agent I shipped. So when I got the chance to work on context itself, the actual foundation the next decade of agents will run on, I took it. That is the whole reason I joined. I want to fix context for good, not one agent at a time.

Paradigm

Founder & CEO
2025 to now

paradigmoutreach.com
Manuel standing in front of the Antler wall in San Francisco

The first agentic voice-powered growth engine. It finds prospects, calls and emails them, handles replies, and books meetings. I built it until it ran itself.

The idea is bigger than email. I want Paradigm to be the place you hand your whole work cycle to an agent. Not one channel, all of them: cold email, posting, multi-channel campaigns, running a stack of social accounts, even video and UGC. The trick is that it is selective, not spammy. It figures out the client-acquisition funnel that actually works for your specific company and runs only that one. I think we are heading toward a world where outreach is agent to agent, a buyer’s agent and a seller’s agent talking directly, and inbound gets so loud you need your own AI just to filter what is real. That future is coming, and I wanted to build for it early.

Nouvo

Founder
2024 to now

nouvo.dev
Manuel in front of a giant screen reading OpenAI Voice Hack Night

Nouvo is my web studio. Athletic portfolios, business sites, resume sites, built to order. I productized it so it brings in revenue on its own.

Nouvo started with a rejection. I applied for tech internships and did not get one. When I looked at the people who did land those roles, a lot of them already had a clean personal site or portfolio backing them up. The tech world treats that as a given. Most people never get handed that edge, and I could not stop thinking about how unfair that gap is.

So I started building the thing they were missing, right on my own campus. Resume sites for classmates, portfolios for dancers and athletes, real web presence for people applying to the things they actually wanted. It worked. People I knew walked into interviews and auditions with something polished behind their name, and doors started opening for them. That feeling, watching someone I helped get their shot, is still one of the best things I have gotten out of building anything.

The idea was simple: take the advantage the tech industry keeps for itself and hand it to everyone else.

That turned into Nouvo, my web studio. Athletic portfolios, business sites, resume pages, all built to order for real clients, and eventually productized so it earns on its own at nouvo.dev. It is also where I learned to ship fast for people who are counting on it, which set up everything I have built since.

30+ builds so far. These five are live right now; go see them.

  • 2025

    Paradigm

    The first agentic voice-powered growth engine. It finds prospects, calls and emails them, handles the replies, and books the meeting. My flagship.

    Paradigm landing page: the headline reads Your Outbound Runs Itself, above the live sales dashboard
    fig. 01paradigmoutreach.com
  • 2025

    Nouvo Clients

    A slice of the sites I’ve built for real people at Nouvo. Resume sites, athletic portfolios, business pages. The full gallery lives at nouvo.dev.

    Nouvo studio homepage: We Build, custom websites for athlete portfolios, resumes, and businesses
    fig. 02nouvo.dev
  • 2026

    Ultron

    Hosted MCP server with 26 tools, bridged live into DevCore OS. My agents’ home base.

    Ultron landing page: Turn every conversation into delivery, with an Enter Dashboard button
    fig. 03ultron-omega.vercel.app
  • 2026

    Gideon

    AI study platform (a.k.a. VisboardAI / ThoughtPlot): talk to it, and it maps what you’re learning visually.

    Gideon app home: a mode picker with Thought Plot, Architecture, quiz and study modes, and debate tools
    fig. 04thought-plot-prod.web.app
  • 2026

    Launch Control

    One idea in, a week of on-brand launch content out. A swarm of Claude agents plans it, makes it, grades its own work, and ships it. Built for Claude Build Day.

    Launch Control app: the launch composer with a crew of Claude agents, a strategist, channel writers, and a critic, planning a week of content
    fig. 05github.com/Manueldav2/launch-control

The other twenty-some, IDEX, Claude Classroom, the ATS Resume Optimizer and the rest, live on GitHub.

Where I think all of it is going.

Here is what I am convinced of. We are walking into a world run by agents. Agents talking to agents, our attention filtered for us before we ever see it, whole workflows handled while we sleep. Someone has to build the infrastructure underneath all of it, the layer that decides what those agents know and who they work for. That is the work I care about. That is the future I moved out here to build.

Manuel grinning next to Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot in a showroom

Manuel David, San FranciscoSet in Inter and IBM Plex Mono