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title: "Work | Corrado Verhoeven"
description: "Client tools and automations for small companies, AI products, digital payments at UniCredit, and earlier startups. With plain descriptions of what I actually did."
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# The concrete projects.

Since 2025 I consult on my own, building tools and automations for small companies. Before that, digital payments at UniCredit. Before that, two startups of my own. Each entry below says what I actually did, since that's usually the hardest thing to tell from a portfolio.

## Consulting

### Client operations tools

Custom software and automations for small businesses. Since 2025.

I sit with the owner, map how orders, invoices, or tenders actually move through the business, then build the missing piece and run it. So far that includes a custom ERP, a scraper that monitors public tender listings, restaurant ordering flows, and CRM and API integrations. Infrastructure choices and production problems included.

Internal toolsAutomationIntegrationsERP

## AI products

![](/_astro/chiara.P7Yhu1sX_Z1Hnqxe.webp)

### [Chiara AI](https://chiara.help)

An AI study assistant. Now archived.

NotebookLM before Google released NotebookLM. Students turned lectures, PDFs, notes, and recordings into summaries, mind maps, flashcards, quizzes, and document chat. I handled the whole lifecycle myself: roadmap, React and Firebase build, the LLM, transcription, and OCR pipelines, deployment, support. It left me with one firm opinion about AI products. Structure and workflow beat another chat box.

LLM pipelinesOCRFirebaseReact

![](/_astro/alter.Cjg68XOC_1MBsN.webp)

### [Alter](https://ask-alter.app)

An AI inbox for email, Slack, Calendar, and HubSpot.

One place for the channels you already use, with categorization, prioritization, and natural-language search. The point was to make the existing inboxes less painful rather than add a new one. We interviewed at Y Combinator in summer 2023, when an AI inbox was still a strange pitch. We didn't get in.

AI productNatural language searchIntegrations

## Payments and fintech

![](/_astro/unicredit.BczO5S7Y_1FvI9i.webp)

### [UniCredit](https://www.unicreditgroup.eu/en.html)

Digital payments consulting, through Be Management Consulting.

I managed the re-engineering of UniCredit's ATM frontend into a microservices architecture, working with the solution architect to turn business requirements into technical specs. I also sat between the bank's business units and the vendor, Nexi, on acquiring services, coordinating UAT, go-lives, and post-release support. This is where the functional analyst in me comes from.

Digital paymentsMicroservicesVendor coordinationUAT

![](/_astro/idospay.DkhDBXgZ_2oCu4.webp)

### [Idospay](https://idospay.com)

An Open Banking startup for SME cash flow. Co-founder.

We built a data platform on Open Banking APIs so small businesses could see payment patterns and cash-flow pressure. I ran product and operations: roadmap, hiring, financial modeling, and the pitches that got us funding from Northeastern University and recognition from Google for Startups. The idea came from a summer in a winery's accounting office, watching invoices go unpaid.

FintechOpen BankingSME cash flow

## Side projects

![](/_astro/cosafaccioapiacenza.Du3x70VX_Z1JpLq9.webp)

### [Cosa Faccio a Piacenza](https://cosafaccioapiacenza.it/)

Weekend events in Piacenza, published once, distributed everywhere.

It started as a friend's Instagram page listing weekend events in Piacenza, our hometown. Collecting events by hand and building carousels was painful, so I automated everything I could: backend, website, mobile apps, API, MCP support. Events go in once and every channel is generated from the same data, including the weekend carousel, while scrapers pull the rest from third-party sources. I do it for free, and it's some of the most fun engineering I get to do.

AutomationScrapingWeb and mobileAPI

![](/_astro/posto.D0FuANvi_Z1434gF.webp)

### [Posto Social](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/588672-46#overview)

A social network experiment.

A social network built around quality content rather than engagement mechanics. My part was project management: scope, priorities, and keeping delivery moving.

Social networkWeb application

## Earlier

![](/_astro/tvsion.Cop2bqdZ_Z25WtNs.webp)

### [TVSION](/projects/tvsion)

The first Italian app for watching free-to-air TV.

200,000+ downloads and more than a year in the App Store Top 100. I built it in high school: backend on Node.js and AWS, iOS app in Swift, teaching myself as I went, back when there was no AI to ask. My first lesson in shipping something real and watching what hundreds of thousands of people actually do with it.

iOSNode.jsConsumer product