What We Are
Continuum Pulse exists because most companies buying AI get one of two things: consultants who produce strategy decks but never ship, or engineers who ship fast but without architectural thinking. We do both.
The consulting side operates as a CAIO practice. We take on AI leadership for companies that need senior technical direction but are not ready for a full-time C-suite hire. We set the roadmap, architect the systems, and mentor the team to carry it forward.
The incubation side takes proven patterns from our consulting work and turns them into standalone products. Our first venture, OlympicOS, applies the same compound AI infrastructure we build for enterprise clients to youth sports development.
The Founder
Ricardo Sousa holds a PhD in machine learning and has spent 15+ years building AI systems that run in production, not in research papers.
During a decade at Farfetch he led the AI team responsible for an information retrieval platform matching shoppers to garments across individual preferences, a computer vision-powered visual search engine, and a multimodal conversational agent. That work generated $16M+ in measurable revenue and served millions of users. He managed a department producing $20M in annual revenue.
He founded Continuum Pulse to do two things: give companies access to PhD-level AI leadership without the overhead of a permanent hire, and build his own products using the same infrastructure he deploys for clients.