Simone Schiavoi

Founder, UOE.AI

Simone Schiavoi is a self-taught technologist who has spent the better part of a decade building across AI, cloud infrastructure, and quantum computing — well before any of it reached mainstream attention.

He learns by building. Not through curricula or structured programs, but by going deep into every layer of the systems he works with — from GPU architecture to distributed databases to quantum circuits — until the understanding is complete enough to ship production software on top of it. He holds certifications not as endpoints, but as byproducts of that process: proof that the knowledge was pressure-tested against industry standards.

When he recognized the exponential nature of progress in AI and computing, the response was immediate and total. He redirected nearly every waking hour toward technical depth — certifying, building, competing, iterating — investing relentlessly in the kind of upskilling that compounds over time. The goal was simple: be ready when the curve goes vertical.

He is the first and only person in the world to hold all 10 active NVIDIA certifications — 7 Professional and 3 Associate — spanning agentic AI, generative AI, accelerated data science, AI operations, AI infrastructure, AI networking, and OpenUSD development. He holds 50+ additional certifications across AWS, Google Cloud, Databricks, IBM Quantum, Microsoft, HashiCorp, and Alibaba Cloud.

He is a Mensa International member, ranked in the top 3% worldwide in the IBM Quantum Challenge 2024, placed top 100 at Xanadu's QHack 2024 as a solo competitor, and was selected for MIT's iQuHACK quantum computing hackathon — twice.

The Path to UOE.AI

From solo platforms to a venture factory.

UOE.AI didn't start as a studio. It evolved from years of solo building, shipping, failing, and iterating.

Before GPT-4 existed, before agentic AI became a category, Simone built two full AI platforms entirely on his own:

iza.ai — A strategic intelligence platform generating 600+ personalized business frameworks, 50 specialized AI assistants, and 150+ content tools for startups and enterprises. Backed by Microsoft for Startups, NVIDIA Inception, and AWS Startups.

autogrowth.com — An AI-powered sales engine automating the full B2B outreach funnel across a database of 30M+ companies and 250M+ professionals, with multi-channel outreach in 60+ languages and CRM integration.

Both were production-grade systems — not prototypes, not demos — built solo, end-to-end, from architecture to deployment. They were also the proving ground. Every hard lesson about scalability, product-market fit, infrastructure cost, and user behavior fed directly into the methodology that now powers UOE.AI. What took months to build alone in 2022 now takes days — not because the standards dropped, but because every iteration sharpened the process.

iza.ai and autogrowth.com are now internal infrastructure for the Studio: one drives strategic analysis and operational playbooks, the other powers automated go-to-market across the entire portfolio.

What He Does Now

Today, Simone can take a startup from concept to fully production-ready SaaS in under two weeks — including an intensive daily iteration phase where the product is stress-tested, refined, and hardened until it's genuinely competitive. These are not MVPs or proof-of-concepts. They are feature-complete applications that match — in both capability and pricing — startups that raised millions and spent months building with full engineering teams.

He does this across verticals: AI analytics, financial intelligence, infrastructure tooling, and more. The combination of deep full-stack expertise, NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure, and years of compounding iteration makes this speed possible without cutting corners.

UOE.AI is the vehicle for this capability at scale — an AI Venture Factory that launches 12–24 B2B SaaS startups per year, each assigned a dedicated founding operator, with the Studio retaining majority equity.

What He Believes

The age of self-running companies is here

Agentic AI is not just an efficiency tool — it is the beginning of fully autonomous business operations. Simone's thesis is that within the next cycle, entire SaaS companies will be managed end-to-end by AI agents: customer acquisition, onboarding, support, product iteration, and growth — with minimal human feedback required.

The role of the human founder shifts from operator to architect. You design the system, set the constraints, and the agents run the company. UOE.AI is being built to prove this thesis with every startup it launches.

AI and quantum will reshape financial markets

The intersection of scaled AI systems and — in the near future — quantum computing represents the most disruptive force to hit financial markets in a generation. Traditional quant funds optimize within known frameworks. The next generation of trading and prediction systems will operate on an entirely different plane: processing unstructured data at scale, detecting patterns across previously unconnectable signals, and executing with a speed and precision that legacy systems cannot match.

Simone is building toward this future with UOE.AI's finance vertical — combining agentic AI, high-performance computing, and big data to create intelligence systems for both traditional markets and emerging prediction markets.

Deploy, don't train

The largest opportunity in AI right now is not in building bigger models. The infrastructure layer is maturing. The application layer is wide open. Thousands of vertical enterprise problems are waiting to be solved by people who understand both the technology and the domain deeply enough to ship real products — fast.

Current Portfolio

Internal Infrastructure

The Engine — Proprietary agentic AI platform that autonomously operates every UOE portfolio company. Eight specialized AI agents handle engineering, marketing, support, and growth — with minimal human oversight. Not sold externally.

SaaS

LLM Visibility Tracker — Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platform. First analytics suite for brand visibility inside AI-generated search results across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.

Opti-LLM — Automated LLM optimization that cuts 50% of SaaS LLM costs across your software, while maintaining the same or improved quality.

AirPilot — Automating and simplifying AI Factory infrastructure planning, from product selection to architecture design.

Finance

AI Hedge Fund — Agentic AI-driven trading system leveraging HPC and big data.

6PM-Future — Prediction market intelligence platform combining OSINT, market signals, and domain analysis.

Credentials at a Glance

NVIDIA — 10/10 active certifications (world first)

AI Infrastructure: AI Infrastructure (Professional) | AI Operations (Professional) | AI Networking (Professional) | AI Infrastructure and Operations (Associate)
Data Science: Accelerated Data Science (Professional)
Generative AI: Agentic AI (Professional) | Gen AI LLMs (Professional) | Generative AI LLMs (Associate) | Generative AI Multimodal (Associate)
Simulation and Physical AI: OpenUSD Development (Professional)

Cloud & Data — 50+ certifications

Quantum Computing

IBM Qiskit Certified Developer | Top 3% IBM Quantum Challenge 2024 | Top 100 Xanadu QHack 2024 | MIT iQuHACK 2025 & 2026 | Top 150 QHack 2023

Other

Mensa International Member | 5th in Italy — Mensa BRAIN Competition 2016 | AWS DeepRacer Top 40 Europe