Stoda.ai

The Day 2 Managed Runtime.

Your AI generates apps, we make them last.

CTO Brief · A request for your read on the idea

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6+ Years Operating Together.

TRACK RECORD

Geronimo De Abreu
Geronimo De Abreu

CO-FOUNDER & CEO

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Former CTO at DealMaker, where he built infrastructure supporting $2.3B in capital raised and scaled engineering from 1 to ~40 people. Has lived the buyer problem Stoda sells into: internal tools outside engineering, shadow IT, and operational risk after software gets built. Before DealMaker, he founded a company in Venezuela that now operates across 14 countries in Latin America.

Ben Barrett
Ben Barrett

CO-FOUNDER

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Employee #3 at DealMaker, scaling alongside Geronimo from 10 to 160 employees. Right-hand to the Co-Founder/CRO through exponential revenue growth. Built the success motions that brought customers back, then the systems & processes to scale them. Led across strategy/ops, BizOps, RevOps & Product as the constant bridge between revenue and engineering.

David De Sousa
David De Sousa

FOUNDING PRINCIPAL ENGINEER

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Successfully shipped AI products in heavily regulated industries, balancing probabilistic AI with deterministic approaches. Now building the Stoda runtime and designed the workflow that lets the team build with high quality and speed. Started at an early-stage startup with Geronimo 13 years ago, then ran a dev shop together before reuniting at DealMaker.

The executive. The operator. The engineer. All three built together at DealMaker: Geronimo and Ben for 6 years, Ben and David for 3 years, Geronimo and David on and off for 15 years. This is not founder chemistry on a slide. It is a team that has already built together through scale.

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Meet Alex.
He built his own internal tool.

VP Marketing @ Series B Fintech  |  Operator  |  Builder

DAY 1 · WHAT ALEX COULD DO
01 · WANT

Lift the team’s creative output.

The old system wasn’t cutting it.

02 · SEARCH

Evaluated the vendors.

All expensive. None fit the workflow.

03 · BUILD

Picked up Claude Code.

Built a bespoke app.

× DAY 2 WALL

Team saw it. Wanted in.

Alex tried to extend it. Auth, safety, deploy. He couldn’t. Engineering had no capacity. Tool died on his laptop.

DAY 2 · WITH STODA
04 · STODA

Stoda took it to prod.

Deployed in the Fintech’s cloud. Auth, secrets, monitoring, governance.

05 · LIVE
  • CTO has visibility.
  • App is safely deployed & maintained.
  • Team is using it.
↑ +30% CREATIVE
OUTPUT

Alex is one of four. Three more tools at the same company are already deployed with Stoda. Same arc. Same lift.

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Alex isn’t alone.

Operators build tools now. They can’t keep them alive.

OUR BELIEF
01

Operators will build their own tools.

Purpose-built software, everywhere. Huge value, created locally.

02

Nobody watches them. They become a liability.

Code scanners watch the codebase. SRE tools watch infra. Nothing watches the tool the VP of Marketing shipped on Tuesday.

03

Stoda turns them into assets.

From liability to production-grade.

THE PROOF
35%

of enterprises replaced SaaS with AI-built tools.

Retool, 2026

72%

of orgs had a production incident from AI code.

Harness, 2025

63%

of AI-code builders are non-developers.

Taskade, 2026

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Day 2, handled.
Productivity, unlocked.

Engineering rigor for the apps engineers didn’t build.

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS

BEFORE ORPHAN CODE
  • Connected to prod data
  • No auth model
  • Secrets and API keys exposed
  • Nobody owns it
  • Nobody gets paged
STODA RUNTIME →
AFTER PRODUCTION ASSET
  • Deployed in your Cloud and VPC
  • Auth enforced
  • Secrets encrypted and managed
  • Tracked in the CTO dashboard
  • Alerted and monitored
NO VENDOR LOCK-IN
SECURITY_PATCHING DATA_CONNECTIVITY DEPENDENCY_UPGRADES DRIFT_CORRECTION BUSINESS_RULE_VERIFICATION
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Deterministic rules.
Yours and ours.

Every app your company ships runs on the combined set. Stoda brings the platform. AI authors your enterprise layer.

STODA CORE out of the box
  • AUTH Required at every entry point.
  • SECRETS Vault-managed, never hardcoded.
  • DEPS CVEs patched within 7 days.
  • DATA Encrypted at rest and in transit.
  • AUDIT Trail on every state change.

+ more as the platform evolves.

YOUR ENTERPRISE AI-authored, from your policies
  • AUTH Corporate SSO enforced.
  • DATA Corporate data access, policy-bound.
  • COST Spend limits per project.
  • OPS One-click deploy to your cloud.
  • REGION Data stays in approved regions.

+ more as your policies grow.

↓ ENFORCED ON EVERY DEPLOY ↓
AUTHORED WITH AI

from your English policies.

EXECUTED DETERMINISTICALLY

testable, auditable, reliable.

PER ENTERPRISE

your rules, not generic.

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Stoda enables any Day 1 builder.

Competitors bundle Day 1 + Day 2 around their own builder. Real teams use many.

COMPETITORS build + govern,
bundled

DAY 1 · BUILD

Superblocks

Vybe

DAY 2 · GOVERN

SUPERBLOCKS
APPS ONLY
VYBE
APPS ONLY

Locked to one builder. Adopt their stack or stay invisible.

STODA build + govern,
decoupled

DAY 1 · BUILD

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Bolt

Lovable

Replit

Windsurf

v0

Devin

+ next

ANY BUILDER  →  ONE GOVERNANCE LAYER

DAY 2 · GOVERN

DEPLOY
AUTH
SECRETS
MONITORING
PATCHING
BUSINESS
RULES
COST VIZ

Best builder changes daily. Teams mix freely. Stoda governs them all.

STRATEGIC OPTIONALITY
Bundle build + governance → every other builder is a necessary competitor.
Standalone governance → every builder is a potential partner.
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Customers run Labs on Stoda.

An internal program that closes the gap between business urgency and engineering capacity — without bypassing governance.

WHY_LABS
01
SHIP FAST

Tools deployed in days, not quarters.

02
VALIDATE EARLY

Real usage informs the roadmap before product commits.

03
GO AI-NATIVE

Every operator becomes a manager of their own agent army.

04
STAY GOVERNED

Auth, deploy, monitoring — handled by Stoda from day one.

PROOF · LIVE DEALMAKER LABS
Rebecca Kacaba LinkedIn post about DealMaker Labs powered by Stoda.ai

14 tools in 14 days. 50 in queue. Built by team members across the company — powered by Stoda.

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Where I’d love your read.

  • Does the Day 1 / Day 2 split match what you see in your org?
  • Would you rather buy this as a managed runtime, or build it in-house?
  • What would have to be true for you to put a real internal app on it?
  • What are we missing — or getting wrong?

stoda.ai

[email protected]

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