Toronto · building in public
I build AI agents, and I let one run my life.
I'm Berto. For the past while I've been building Cael — a personal agent that holds my goals, my reading, my training and my calendar, and nudges me toward the life I said I wanted. This site is the window into that: what I'm building, what I'm learning, and the real numbers underneath.
Pulled live from Cael's database. The full picture →
Writing
All posts →I stopped measuring my life in one number
August 16, 2026Money is one form of wealth. I track eight, and I let an agent keep the scoreboard so I can't quietly stop looking at the ones that hurt.
What I learned building a personal agent
July 5, 2026Six things that turned out to matter more than the model — a worklog, tools that compound, semantic search, and getting out of the agent's way.
Latest episode
All episodes →I built a personal assistant with Vercel Eve
The full conversation about building Cael — from the mess of self-hosting agents, to SMS at 8am, to a nightly job that reads your own patterns back to you.
June 28, 2026 · 24 min