Curriculum vitaeCurriculum vitae

1. 01M.A. Whately & Co.Director of AI & Business Automation (contractor)2025 to now
2. 02Independent practiceSenior finance-ops AI engineer2025 to now
3. 033DescuFounder2022 to now
4. 04SystemartisCo-Founder & Automation Architect2023 to now
5. 05InnoviumFounder2023 to now
6. 06HighCrowdChief Operations Officer2022 to 2025
7. 07InRentoHead of Community2021 to 2024
8. 08EvoEstateCommunity Manager, then Product Manager2020 to 2021

1. Role 01 / 08Oct 2025 to present Live

   Director of AI & Business Automation (contractor)M.A. Whately & Co.

   Irish chartered accountancy and audit firm. Contract, remote.

   Irish chartered accountancy and audit firm. Hired to bring AI into a regulated practice; built its AI & Automation service line from nothing and runs it as sole owner of AI, reporting to the principal: scoping, pricing, build, training and support.

   Goals and results

   • Time to production10 days, first commit to live
   • Platform scope20 modules in 4 weeks
   • Quality gate3,000+ automated checks
   • Bills accuracy99.8% on a synthetic corpus
   • Unit costunder 1 cent per document
   • Data migration3,172 writes, 0 failures
   • Month-end match107 of 107 journals
   • Adoptionfull team of 10+ trained

   From 0 to 100

   1. 00

      Starting point. AI was not a service the firm offered: no client platform, no AI training for staff, no automation offer for its own clients. Hired as the sole owner of AI, reporting to the principal, with scoping, pricing, build, training and support in one seat.

   2. 01

      Dec 2025: first deliverable, an AI maturity assessment funnel for lead generation (12-node n8n workflow, AI scoring, a four-email nurture).

   3. 02

      Rebuilt practice management for 587 client records and 10 staff plus the owner: a 97-field schema audited, 3,172 writes with 0 failures, per-person dashboards, Xero invoicing, payment tracking and credit control at 7, 14, 30 and 60 days.

   4. 03

      Client delivery under the firm's brand: HubSpot-to-Xero invoicing across 3 legal entities and 4 currencies (live since April 2026), a SEPA payment-file converter sold as a monthly subscription, a co-op's first automated settlement cycle, and Xero prepayment journals for a tour operator (live since 16 Oct 2026).

   5. 04

      23 Sep to 3 Oct 2026: the M.A. Whately Suite, from first commit to live production in 10 days, then 20 modules in four weeks, hosted in the EU (Vercel Dublin, Supabase eu-west-1, Resend EU).

   6. 05

      Oct 2026: the firm's website split into Accounting and AI & Automation (353 claims fact-checked, 81 of 81 pages clean), the AI Academy live (8 lessons, 48 prompts), the AI for Accountants session for the full team, and fee packages published.

   7. 100

      Where it stands now. Within a year the firm went from no AI offer to its own live client platform, a trained team, an AI Academy, published fee packages and automation clients of its own in Ireland, the UK and the US.

   Team and leadership

   • Sole owner of AI at the firm, reporting to the principal; partners bring client scenarios, and he designs, prices and hands over a proposal-ready brief.
   • Trained the full team (10+ people) in an AI for Accountants session with live demos; adoption backed by the AI Academy, per-person dashboards and a daily staff brief.
   • Runs parallel AI coding agents as the delivery team, each workstream behind review and test gates before deploy.

   Regulated and safe by design

   • EU-only AI processing enforced in code: bills run on Vertex AI's EU endpoint with data caching disabled; the US model is an opt-in fallback only.
   • An AML due-diligence gate keeps a client account blocked until the identity check is verified; IBAN confirmation is admin-only and audited by database trigger, and SEPA files are built only from confirmed IBANs.
   • Tenant isolation (Postgres RLS), CSP and HSTS, masked PPS and IBAN numbers, an audit log and a retention purge.
   • Irish statute as software: Revenue deadlines (PAYE, RCT, VAT, Form 46G, LPT, Form 11), CRO audit-exemption tests, late-payment interest, Irish bank holidays.
   • A governance rule in writing: compute the number deterministically, compose the words with AI. Applied to the firm's fee engine.

   Key results

   • Built the service line from zero: a client platform, an AI Academy, published fee packages and automation clients of the firm's own in Ireland, the UK and the US.
   • Took the firm's multi-tenant client platform from first commit to live production in 10 days (23 Sep to 3 Oct 2026): 20 modules, 3,000+ automated checks, an 87-point smoke test on every deploy.
   • Made it safe by design: EU-only AI processing enforced in code, an AML due-diligence gate before any client account opens, audited IBAN confirmation, tenant isolation, and Irish statute (Revenue deadlines for PAYE, RCT, VAT and Form 11, CRO audit-exemption tests) encoded as software.
   • Built an EU-hosted AI bills reader at 99.8% field accuracy on a synthetic test corpus, for under one cent per document, posting to Xero with VIES checks and SEPA payment files.
   • Rebuilt practice management for 587 clients and 10 staff: 3,172 writes with 0 failures. A dry run caught a mass error before it happened, turning 587 would-be payroll tasks into exactly 38.
   • Audited 749 Xero sales invoices against the client records and surfaced 391 clients with no billing in 12 months.
   • Trained the full team (10+ people) in an AI for Accountants session with live demos, backed by an 8-lesson AI Academy.
   • Automated deal-to-invoice-to-payment from HubSpot to Xero for a software reseller across 3 legal entities and 4 currencies: live since April 2026, 212+ invoices under HMAC-signed approvals.
   • Automated month-end prepayment journals for a tour operator, validated 107/107 against the bookkeeper's own entries, live daily since 16 Oct 2026.
   • Productised a SEPA payment-file converter sold as a monthly subscription.

2. Role 02 / 08Dec 2025 to present Live

   Senior finance-ops AI engineerIndependent practice (Upwork)

   Upwork and direct clients in Europe, the US and Australia. Remote.

   Top Rated on Upwork with a 100% Job Success Score: 22 contracts for clients across Europe, the US and Australia, 12 of 12 rated contracts five stars, one client hired four times, all work inbound. Takes the work most freelancers avoid: finance data, regulated sectors and systems that must run unattended.

   Goals and results

   • Job Success100%
   • StatusTop Rated
   • Contracts22
   • Rated five-star12 of 12
   • Repeat workone client hired 4 times
   • Pipelineall inbound or repeat
   • Budgeteach Dutch phase at or under

   From 0 to 100

   1. 00

      Starting point. December 2025: a new profile with no track record on the platform and small fixed-price n8n jobs. UI/UX design work since 2022; AI and automation engineering since 2025.

   2. 01

      Small n8n automations first, each delivered with documentation and a handover.

   3. 02

      AI builds next: a WhatsApp AI sales assistant for a Spanish tour operator, synced to HubSpot and refined on real conversations (rehired); an AI video ad pipeline (the client came back for three more contracts); a self-improving LLM pipeline that migrates safety-critical PLC code for a Danish industrial-automation team (five stars plus a bonus).

   4. 03

      Then finance and regulated work: daily revenue reporting for a five-hotel group in Spain and Romania, extended to Romanian e-Factura guest invoicing, and an EU-sovereign multi-tenant financial reporting platform for the Dutch education sector.

   5. 04

      The same controls on every build: human approval before any write to a ledger or an ad budget, audit logs, and tests against the figures the client already trusts.

   6. 100

      Where it stands now. Top Rated with a 100% Job Success Score within a year: 22 contracts, 12 of 12 rated contracts five stars, one client hired four times, all inbound or repeat.

   Team and leadership

   • Owns each engagement alone, from discovery and fixed-price scoping to build and handover.
   • Designed the Dutch pilot across three organisation types (a bookkeeping firm, an audit firm and school boards); both firms approved, and the follow-on module was won at a fixed price.
   • Wrote a security overview for the pilot firms' IT and security teams.

   Regulated and safe by design

   • No US-owned service anywhere in the Dutch stack: self-hosted Supabase and n8n, Microsoft Entra ID sign-in, tokens encrypted at rest, encrypted off-site backups, and human approval before any write to Exact Online.
   • Raised the need for a data processing agreement with each participating firm before the pilot, before anyone asked.
   • Tenant isolation proven by tests: 52 of 52 sign-in end-to-end tests pass and 5 of 5 RLS mutation tests are caught.
   • Every AI-built ad campaign is created paused, so a person approves it before any budget is spent; the PLC pipeline is regression-locked so it can never break a passing test.

   Key results

   • Built an EU-sovereign, multi-tenant financial reporting platform for the Dutch education sector with no US-owned service in the stack; designed the pilot across a bookkeeping firm, an audit firm and school boards, and raised the data processing agreements before anyone asked. Tenant isolation proven by tests (52/52 sign-in e2e, 5/5 RLS mutation tests); each phase at or under budget, the follow-on won at a fixed price.
   • Automated daily revenue reporting for a five-hotel group in Spain and Romania, matched to the accounting team's figures cell by cell, then extended guest e-invoicing to Romania's e-Factura.
   • Built a self-improving, regression-locked LLM pipeline that migrates safety-critical PLC code for an industrial automation client in Denmark; five stars plus a bonus.
   • Built an AI campaign publisher for a PPC agency where every AI-built campaign is created paused, so a person approves it before any budget is spent.

3. Role 03 / 08Jun 2022 to present Live

   Founder3Descu (TREIDESCUPRINT SRL)

   On-demand 3D printing manufacturer, Targu Jiu, Romania. Founder, 100% founder-owned.

   On-demand 3D printing manufacturer for engineering buyers across Europe, founded on an EU start-up grant with no outside equity. Runs strategy, P&L, pricing, production and sales, and wrote every line of the software.

   Goals and results

   • Turnoverx65 in 3 years
   • 2025 turnoverabout EUR 190K
   • Net margin57%
   • Growth+75% year on year
   • Capacity5 to 200+ 3D printers
   • Orders2,000+
   • Buyers1,600+
   • Countries30, incl. 26 of 27 EU
   • Germany45% of orders
   • Loyalty1 in 3 orders repeat
   • Rating4.7/5 from 200+ buyers
   • QualityISO 9001:2015 certified
   • FundingEU grant, plan ranked 1st
   • Press10 articles, EUR 0 ads

   From 0 to 100

   1. 00

      Starting point. 2022: a business plan written for a Master's in Entrepreneurship, an EU start-up grant (the plan ranked first, about EUR 60K, non-repayable) and five 3D printers in an apartment in Targu Jiu. No outside equity.

   2. 01

      Jun 2022: registered the company and started production on five 3D printers in the apartment.

   3. 02

      Within a year: moved from consumers to engineering buyers, and became an approved production partner of one of the largest on-demand manufacturing platforms in the EU.

   4. 03

      2023 to 2024: hired and trained the team on site and remotely, wrote the SOPs and the ISO 9001 audit documentation, and moved production into a dedicated hall (2024). 3Descu is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company.

   5. 04

      Scaled the fleet past 200 3D printers and built an export business: buyers in 26 of the 27 EU member states, 45% of orders shipping to Germany.

   6. 05

      Jun to Oct 2026: wrote all of the company's software alone with AI coding agents: an instant-quote to fulfilment platform in four languages (929 commits, ~400 merged pull requests, 38 edge functions, 120+ release checkers running ~260K assertions per run), a customer ledger unifying 5 sales channels (1,863 records reconciled to within EUR 1), e-Factura invoicing with EU VAT reverse charge, and a EUR 0 per month social publishing agent.

   7. 06

      18 Oct 2026: one of the first manufacturing MCP servers, listed in the official MCP Registry (io.github.cadi27tech/3descu-quote), on Glama and in 4 community directories through merged pull requests. Engineers get a real factory price inside ChatGPT or Claude.

   8. 07

      21 to 25 Oct 2026: a zero-budget press launch, 10 articles in national, regional and international trade press within a week.

   9. 100

      Where it stands now. A 200+ 3D printer factory in its own production hall, selling into 26 of the 27 EU member states. Turnover x65 in three years to about EUR 190K in 2025, up 75% year on year, at a 57% net margin (public filings). 2,000+ orders from 1,600+ buyers in 30 countries, one in three orders from a returning customer, rated 4.7/5 by 200+ verified buyers, and 1st in Gorj county in 3 Topul Firmelor 2026 categories.

   Team and leadership

   • Runs strategy, P&L, pricing, production and sales.
   • Hired and trained the staff, on site and digitally, with the SOPs and the ISO 9001 audit documentation he wrote. A team of 4 including contractors, plus external production, logistics, certification and creative partners.
   • Hands-on across FDM and SLA production, 3D modelling, the full 3D workflow and design for manufacturing.
   • Directs parallel AI coding agents behind tests and review gates as the software team.

   Regulated and safe by design

   • ISO 9001:2015 certified company, with documented SOPs.
   • GDPR and contract rules enforced in code: marketplace-sourced customer records are held suppression-only.
   • e-Factura invoicing with EU VAT reverse charge for VIES-valid business buyers.
   • Every release passes 120+ checkers; public claims (counts, ratings, press) are checked by scripts for drift against the source data.
   • The MCP server is keyless and rate-limited, with prices calibrated on measured parts.

   Key results

   • Grew from five 3D printers in an apartment (2022) to more than 200 in its own production hall; turnover x65 in three years to about EUR 190K in 2025 at a 57% net margin, up 75% year on year (public filings).
   • 2,000+ orders from 1,600+ buyers in 30 countries, including 26 of the 27 EU member states; 45% of orders ship to Germany; one in three orders from a returning customer; rated 4.7/5 by 200+ verified buyers.
   • Hired and trained the team on site and remotely; wrote the SOPs and the ISO 9001 audit documentation. Hands-on with FDM and SLA production, 3D modelling and design for manufacturing.
   • Shipped the quoting-to-fulfilment platform solo with AI coding agents in under five months: 929 commits, ~400 merged pull requests, 38 edge functions, 4 languages, 120+ release checkers (~260K assertions per run).
   • Shipped one of the first manufacturing MCP servers, listed in the official MCP Registry (io.github.cadi27tech/3descu-quote).
   • Zero-budget press launch: 10 articles in national, regional and international trade press within a week.
   • ISO 9001:2015 certified company; approved production partner of one of the largest on-demand manufacturing platforms in the EU; ranked 1st in Gorj county in 3 ListaFirme Topul Firmelor 2026 categories (professional and design services).

4. Role 04 / 082023 to present Live

   Co-Founder & Automation ArchitectSystemartis

   AI systems studio, Bucharest. Co-founder, team of 4.

   Bucharest AI systems studio, team of 4, that takes mid-market companies past the pilot and into production. Leads the automation practice, from process discovery and solution design to the agents, workflows and code that run in production.

   Goals and results

   • Studio4 people
   • Reachclients on four continents
   • Founder decisions70% handled or pre-routed
   • Time20+ hours a week reclaimed
   • Availability99.9% over 6 months
   • Pricing case+40% sales in a year

   From 0 to 100

   1. 00

      Starting point. 2023: a new studio built on one observation: most AI projects sold to 10 to 500 person companies stall after the pilot. The studio set out to own the hard middle: backend, integrations, guardrails, observability and handover.

   2. 01

      Co-founded the studio and took the automation practice: process discovery, solution design, and the agents, workflows and code that run in production.

   3. 02

      A delivery model: fixed scope and acceptance tests, human approval wherever money or customers are involved, and a handover where the client owns the code, the data and the runbooks.

   4. 03

      Studio work: an operational brain for the studio itself, a fleet of agents (qualifier, router, summariser, scheduler) on its own orchestrator with retries, human checkpoints and a full audit log.

   5. 04

      Studio work: an AI voice receptionist for an independent French garage, booking into the live calendar during the call.

   6. 05

      Studio work: pricing intelligence for a multi-country marketplace seller (Innovium, a related party): competitor monitoring, auditable rules-based repricing and dashboards.

   7. 06

      Mar 2026: published The Shift to Agentic: Why Basic Chatbots Are Dead on the studio blog.

   8. 100

      Where it stands now. A four-person studio with clients on four continents. Studio results: 70% of founder decisions handled or pre-routed, 20+ hours a week reclaimed and 99.9% availability over six months; every inbound call at the garage answered; marketplace sales up 40% in the year after the pricing layer, nine spreadsheets retired.

   Team and leadership

   • Co-founder in a four-person team (founder and principal architect, head of operations, software engineer); leads the automation practice.
   • Works with client teams from process discovery to handover, so the agents become an operating asset the client runs.

   Regulated and safe by design

   • Human checkpoints and a full audit log in the studio's agent fleet.
   • Garage receptionist: double-booking blocked at database level and call transcripts purged after 30 days.
   • Repricing runs on auditable rules, not on unchecked model output.

   Key results

   • Studio work: an operational brain for the studio itself, a fleet of agents on its own orchestrator with retries, human checkpoints and a full audit log; 70% of founder decisions handled or pre-routed, 20+ hours a week reclaimed.
   • Studio work: an AI voice receptionist for an independent French garage, with live calendar booking during the call, double-booking blocked at database level and transcripts purged after 30 days.
   • Author of "The Shift to Agentic: Why Basic Chatbots Are Dead" on the studio blog (4 March 2026).

5. Role 05 / 08Oct 2023 to present Live

   FounderInnovium

   Own consumer-products brand (INNOTRADE HUB23 SRL), Romania. Founder.

   Own consumer-products brand, founded in 2023 and profitable in its second trading year: registered EU trademark (9 classes), 66+ products on European marketplaces, about EUR 50K revenue in 2025. Runs on automation: courier labels, ANAF e-invoicing and order flows, plus a pricing layer built with Systemartis (related party) after which marketplace sales rose 40% in a year.

   Goals and results

   • Revenue 2025about EUR 50K
   • Profitprofitable in year 2
   • BrandEU trademark, 9 classes
   • Catalogue66+ products
   • Sales+40% after repricing

   From 0 to 100

   1. 00

      Starting point. October 2023: a newly registered company with no products, no brand and no revenue (RON 0 in 2023, public filings).

   2. 01

      May 2024: filed the INNOVIUM EU trademark, now registered in 9 classes.

   3. 02

      Launched 66+ products under the brand on eMAG.

   4. 03

      Ran the business lean on automation: courier labels, ANAF e-invoicing and order flows built in n8n.

   5. 04

      With Systemartis (a related party), added a pricing intelligence layer: competitor monitoring, auditable repricing and dashboards that replaced nine spreadsheets.

   6. 100

      Where it stands now. About EUR 50K revenue in 2025 and profitable in its second trading year (public filings); marketplace sales up 40% in the year after the pricing layer.

   Regulated and safe by design

   • Romanian e-invoicing (ANAF e-Factura) automated in the order flow.

6. Role 06 / 08Oct 2022 to Oct 2025

   Chief Operations OfficerHighCrowd

   EU-regulated real-estate crowdfunding platform for retail investors, Bucharest.

   EU-regulated real-estate crowdfunding platform for retail investors. Took it from start-up to licensed operator as lead on the authorisation process and audit with the ASF, Romania's financial regulator. EU crowdfunding (ECSP) licence granted March 2024: Romania's fourth, and the second for real estate.

   Goals and results

   • LicenceECSP, March 2024
   • RankingRomania's 4th ECSP licence
   • Real estate2nd ECSP licence in the sector
   • Onboardingabout 45 to 8 min
   • Fundingseven-figure, placed
   • Tenure3 years as COO

   From 0 to 100

   1. 00

      Starting point. October 2022: a platform with a product and no licence, in a regulated market. Joined as COO to take it from start-up to licensed operator.

   2. 01

      Took the lead on the authorisation process and audit with the ASF, Romania's financial regulator, and owned the operations behind it.

   3. 02

      Prepared the authorisation file: penetration testing, the architecture review and the policy set the regulator examines (risk, complaints handling, conflicts of interest, business continuity, outsourcing).

   4. 03

      Automated KYC and AML onboarding on LemonWay under PSD2: identity checks, bank linking and segregated fund flows.

   5. 04

      Built the investor-protection flows ECSP requires: an entry knowledge test, a loss-bearing simulation, key investment information sheets and the reflection period.

   6. 05

      Built the operating system behind a regulated product: approval flows, exception handling, investor support and regulatory reporting.

   7. 100

      Where it ended. EU crowdfunding (ECSP) licence granted by the ASF in March 2024: Romania's fourth, and the second for real estate. Onboarding cut from about 45 to 8 minutes per investor (internal measure), seven-figure investor funding placed through the platform during his tenure, and every investor check documented and ready for inspection.

   Team and leadership

   • Led and mentored a cross-functional, distributed team.
   • Coordinated product, engineering, legal counsel, the payment partner and technology providers.
   • Set the KPIs and the operating cadence the company ran on.

   Regulated and safe by design

   • Penetration testing and an architecture review with the regulator before authorisation.
   • Segregated investor fund flows through a licensed payment partner, under PSD2.
   • Every investor check documented and ready for inspection.

   Key results

   • Led the ASF authorisation file and audit: penetration testing, the architecture review and the policy set the regulator examines (risk, complaints handling, conflicts of interest, business continuity, outsourcing).
   • Automated KYC and AML onboarding on LemonWay under PSD2, with identity checks, bank linking and segregated fund flows: about 45 to 8 minutes per investor (internal measure).
   • Built the investor-protection flows ECSP requires: entry knowledge test, loss-bearing simulation, key investment information sheets and the reflection period.
   • Seven-figure investor funding placed through the platform during his tenure.
   • Led and mentored a cross-functional, distributed team; coordinated product, engineering, legal counsel, the payment partner and technology providers, and set the KPIs and operating cadence the company ran on.

7. Role 07 / 08Oct 2021 to Jun 2024

   Head of CommunityInRento

   Licensed buy-to-let crowdfunding platform. Remote.

   Licensed buy-to-let crowdfunding platform. Ran the investor side of the 2022 EvoEstate-InRento merger, which joined the two into one investor base of 12,000+.

   Goals and results

   • Investor base12,000+ after the merger
   • Marketing cost-30% quarter on quarter
   • Explainer video14K+ views

   From 0 to 100

   1. 00

      Starting point. October 2021: joined as Head of Community, months before the EvoEstate-InRento merger was announced in February 2022. Two investor bases had to become one without losing their trust.

   2. 01

      Planned and ran the phased investor migration across email, community and support, with account migration kept separate from feature changes so no investor was stranded mid-move.

   3. 02

      Persona-based investor segmentation for marketing.

   4. 03

      Investor lifecycle processes in the CRM: onboarding, support and retention.

   5. 04

      User interviews turned into roadmap input with MoSCoW and impact-effort scoring.

   6. 05

      The platform explainer video and the education content behind investor acquisition; represented the platform on the Banii Vorbesc podcast (2022).

   7. 100

      Where it ended. One investor base of 12,000+ after the 2022 merger; segmentation that helped cut marketing cost 30% quarter on quarter; an explainer video at 14K+ views. Context: InRento was named Investment Tech of the Year at the Europe FinTech Awards 2022 (a company award).

   Key results

   • Phased migration communications across email, community and support, with account migration kept separate from feature changes so no investor was stranded mid-move.
   • Persona-based investor segmentation that helped cut marketing cost 30% quarter on quarter.
   • Produced the platform explainer video (14K+ views) and the education content behind investor acquisition.

8. Role 08 / 08Mar 2020 to Oct 2021

   Community Manager, then Product ManagerEvoEstate

   Pan-European real-estate crowdfunding aggregator. Remote.

   Pan-European real-estate crowdfunding aggregator serving 6,700 investors. Promoted from Community Manager to Product Manager within 8 months.

   Goals and results

   • PromotionCM to PM in 8 months
   • Investors served6,700
   • InvestedEUR 4M+
   • Explainer video25K+ views
   • Community2,200+ members brought in

   From 0 to 100

   1. 00

      Starting point. March 2020: joined as Community Manager, bringing the 2,200+ member P2P investing community he had founded.

   2. 01

      Grew the investor community and social channels with education content and platform updates; ran investor onboarding, support and CRM processes.

   3. 02

      Turned investor questions into roadmap input, which led to the product role.

   4. 03

      Nov 2020: promoted to Product Manager; owned the roadmap, prioritised from investor data, feedback and business metrics.

   5. 04

      Owned and improved the secondary market, where investors trade positions before maturity; ran release cycles with engineering from idea to launch and managed the catalogue CMS across partner platforms.

   6. 05

      Wrote the SOPs for critical processes and produced the platform explainer video.

   7. 100

      Where it ended. Product Manager within 8 months at an aggregator serving 6,700 investors with EUR 4M+ invested (company figures); SOPs that cut onboarding time for new hires; an explainer video at 25K+ views.

   Team and leadership

   • The link between investors, engineering, marketing and operations: what investors asked for became features the team could ship.

   Key results

   • Owned the product roadmap and the secondary market, where investors trade positions before maturity.
   • Wrote the SOPs for critical processes, cutting onboarding time for new hires.
   • Produced the platform explainer video (25K+ views).

1. Ranking2026

   1st in Gorj county in 3 Topul Firmelor 2026 categories

   3Descu, in the ListaFirme rankings built from filed 2025 accounts (professional and design services), plus 2nd in a fourth.

2. Grant2022

   EU start-up grant, business plan ranked first

   About EUR 60K, non-repayable, won with a business plan he wrote for his Master's. It founded 3Descu.

3. LicenceMar 2024

   EU crowdfunding (ECSP) licence

   Lead on the ASF authorisation and audit at HighCrowd. Romania's 4th ECSP licence, the 2nd for real estate.

   ASF register: EU crowdfunding (ECSP) licence

4. Upwork2026

   Top Rated, 100% Job Success

   22 contracts, 12 of 12 rated contracts five stars, one client hired four times, all inbound or repeat.

   Upwork profile: Top Rated, 100% Job Success

5. PressOct 2026

   10 articles in one week, zero ad spend

   National, regional and international trade press on 3Descu and its AI quoting launch. Every article is listed below.

   Press page: 10 articles in one week, zero ad spend

6. Podcast2019, 2022

   Three-time guest on Banii Vorbesc

   One of Romania's best-known personal-finance podcasts: two episodes in 2019 and one in 2022, for InRento.

   Episode: Three-time guest on Banii Vorbesc

7. Talk10+ people

   AI for Accountants, full-team session

   Delivered with live demos to the full team (10+ people) of an Irish chartered accountancy firm, backed by an 8-lesson AI Academy.

8. CourseCo-author

   17-lesson course on P2P and real-estate crowdfunding

   A Romanian online course for retail investors, co-authored.

   Course page: 17-lesson course on P2P and real-estate crowdfunding

9. GuideDec 2019

   70+ page P2P investing guide

   A free guide to P2P investing, co-authored.

10. CommunityFounder

    A 2,200+ member P2P investing community

    Founded and ran it, then brought it to EvoEstate in 2020.

11. Context2022

    Investment Tech of the Year 2022 (company award)

    Won by InRento at the Europe FinTech Awards while he was its Head of Community. A company award, listed as context.

    Winners list: Investment Tech of the Year 2022 (company award)

Press, October 2026

1. 01Profit.ro21 Oct 2026, ROFabrica pornita intr-un apartament cu 5 imprimante de un tanar intors acasa a ajuns la afaceri de circa 1 milion lei
2. 02Observator News21 Oct 2026, ROAfacerea pornita de la zero de un tanar din Gorj, intr-un apartament, a ajuns la aproape un milion de lei
3. 03Click!21 Oct 2026, RODe la un apartament din Gorj, la o afacere de aproape un milion de lei
4. 04Gorjul Azi21 Oct 2026, ROPovestea de succes a unui gorjean: Adrian Capraru a pornit cu 5 imprimante 3D si a construit o fabrica ce produce pentru toata Europa
5. 05Romania Journal21 Oct 2026, ENRomanian Factory 3Descu Opens Its 3D Printing Quotes To AI Assistants
6. 063Druck.com22 Oct 2026, EN, DE, FR3Descu integrates KI-based pricing calculations for 3D printing into ChatGPT and Claude
7. 07Gorjeanul23 Oct 2026, ROFabrica din Targu Jiu care produce piese pentru diferite utilaje cu ajutorul Inteligentei Artificiale
8. 083D Printing Industry24 Oct 2026, EN3Descu enables 3D printing quotes through ChatGPT and Claude
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