About the author
Ivan Prado
Founder, SkilLab · Lead research, Automation Labs · Anthropic CPN member
One-liner
Founder of SkilLab and lead of Automation Labs research. 14 years in corporate education. Current focus: AI agent governance, harness engineering, multi-channel agent gateways (OpenClaw), and applied LLM systems for Brazilian vertical SaaS (AutoConta accounting, Advogalia legal).
What I work on at Automation Labs
AutoConta and Advogalia ship AI into accounting and legal verticals in Brazil. OpenClaw is the open-source multi-channel gateway for Claude agents across WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram and Discord. HES (Harness Evolution System) is the self-improving prompt-and-harness pipeline that consumes a public failure corpus to evolve agent runtime layers: context, constraint, verification, feedback, advisor, emotion, durable pause, confidence gating.