About
Antonio Evans is the founder and Chief AI Strategist of Quanta Intelligence, an AI consulting company built around automation and business intelligence. He also works as a fractional CTO for health and life-science companies, hardening AI for HIPAA: BAA-ready architectures, security playbooks and compliant LLM workflows for clients in multi-omics and clinical management.
His work connects APIs, legacy CRMs and data lakes into workflows that can be audited. One project gave three for-profit schools in Amsterdam a single AI layer over their CRM, teaching and back-office systems; it grew from a 30-user pilot to all three schools in six months. He has run genomic (FASTA and FASTQ) and clinical imaging pipelines end to end.
Outside client work he writes and creates the animated series Rua de Camões and composes music. Antonio lives with his dog Santino in Lisbon, Portugal.
Career
- Quanta IntelligenceFounder and Chief AI Strategist2024 to now
- SocialdraftCEO2013 to 2024
- FriendsEATManaging Director and Technical Co-Founder2004 to 2024
- Anvan Inc.Chief Technology Officer2002 to 2005
- IBMData Engineer, Global Services1998 to 1999
Speaking
- A two-hour session for the graduating MBA class of Central European University on competition, startup life and growth hacking.
Skills
- Artificial intelligence
- HIPAA-ready AI
- Automation and integration
- Data engineering
- Search engine optimization
- Amazon Web Services
- Chatbot development
Articles by Antonio Evans
- AI coding

How to Write a Project Context File for AI Coding Agents
- AI coding

Skills vs Context Files: When to Use Each
- AI coding

How to Review Code Written by an AI Agent
- AI coding

Test-Driven Development with AI Coding Agents
- AI coding

How to Break a Feature into Tasks an AI Agent Can Finish
- AI coding

Prompting Patterns That Make Coding Agents Reliable
- AI coding

How to Keep an AI Agent from Rewriting Working Code
- AI coding

What Is the Model Context Protocol and When to Use It
- AI coding

How to Run Many AI Coding Agents in Parallel Safely
- AI coding

Using AI Coding Agents on a Legacy Codebase
- AI agents

How to Design a System Prompt for a Production Agent
- AI agents

Tool Design for LLM Agents: Names, Inputs and Errors
- AI agents

How to Evaluate an AI Agent Before Launch
- AI agents

Memory for AI Agents: What to Store and What to Forget
- AI agents

Retrieval-Augmented Generation Explained for Builders
- AI agents

How to Control LLM Costs in Production
- AI agents

Prompt Caching: How It Works and When It Pays
- AI agents

Structured Output from LLMs: Schemas and Validation
- AI agents

Multi-Agent Systems: When One Agent Is Not Enough
- AI agents

How to Add a Human in the Loop to an AI Workflow
- Business

How to Pick the First AI Project for a Small Business
- Business

An AI Front Desk for Service Businesses: What It Handles
- Business

How to Write a Knowledge Base an AI Assistant Can Use
- Business

Measuring ROI on AI Automation
- Business

AI for Customer Support: What to Automate and What Not To
- Business

How to Run an AI Pilot That Ends in a Decision
- Business

Data Privacy Checklist Before Using AI at Work
- Business

An AI Use Policy for a Small Company
- Business

How to Train Staff to Work with AI Tools
- Business

Build vs Buy for AI in a Small Company
- Founders

How to Validate a Startup Idea in Two Weeks
- Founders

Pricing a SaaS Product from First Principles
- Founders

How to Write a One-Page Business Plan
- Founders

Unit Economics Every Founder Should Track
- Founders

How to Run Customer Discovery Interviews
- Founders

A Solo Founder Operating System
- Founders

How to Raise a Pre-Seed Round
- Founders

When to Hire Your First Employee
- Founders

How to Build in Public Without Giving Away the Business
- Founders

Founder Burnout: Signs, Causes and Prevention
- Marketing

Content Marketing Strategy for a Small Team
- Marketing

How to Write Landing Page Copy That Converts
- Marketing

SEO Fundamentals That Do Not Change
- Marketing

How to Start a Newsletter People Read
- Marketing

Cold Email Outreach That Gets Replies
- Marketing

How to Build a Referral Program
- Marketing

Marketing Analytics: The Five Numbers That Matter
- Marketing

How to Write Case Studies Customers Will Read
- Marketing

Positioning: How to Explain What You Sell
- Marketing

How to Use AI for Marketing Without Sounding Like a Robot
- Security

Security Basics for a Small Software Team
- Security

How to Manage Secrets and API Keys
- Security

Prompt Injection: What It Is and How to Defend Against It
- Security

The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, Explained
- Security

How to Set Up Multi-Factor Authentication for a Company
- Security

An Incident Response Plan for a Small Company
- Security

Row-Level Security in Postgres, Explained
- Security

How to Do a Security Review of an AI Agent
- Security

Phishing Defense for Small Teams
- Security

Backups and Disaster Recovery for Startups
- Health

Sleep and Cognitive Performance for Knowledge Workers
- Health

How to Structure a Workday Around Focus
- Health

Ergonomics for People Who Sit All Day
- Health

Exercise and Productivity: What the Evidence Says
- Health

Managing Stress as a Founder or Manager
- Health

How to Take a Real Vacation When You Run a Company
- Health

Nutrition Basics for Busy Professionals
- Health

Screen Time, Eye Strain and What Helps
- Health

How AI Is Used in Preventive Health
- Health

Metabolomics Explained for Non-Scientists
- Fintech

How Payment Processing Works for Online Businesses
- Fintech

Subscription Billing: Proration, Dunning and Churn
- Fintech

Usage-Based Pricing: How to Meter and Bill
- Fintech

How to Read a Cash Flow Statement
- Fintech

Bookkeeping Basics for Founders
- Fintech

How to Handle Sales Tax and VAT for SaaS
- Fintech

Fraud Prevention for Online Payments
- Fintech

How to Set Up Prepaid Credits Billing
- Fintech

AI in Fintech: Where It Works
- Fintech

Financial Forecasting for a Small SaaS
- Leadership

How to Run a One-on-One Meeting
- Leadership

Writing Clear Instructions for Humans and AI
- Leadership

How to Give Feedback That Changes Behavior
- Leadership

Async Communication for Remote Teams
- Leadership

How to Delegate to People and to Agents
- Leadership

Decision-Making Frameworks for Small Teams
- Leadership

How to Write a Postmortem
- Leadership

Onboarding a New Engineer in the First 30 Days
- Leadership

Managing Contractors and Freelancers
- Leadership

How to Run a Weekly Team Retrospective
- Development

Postgres for Application Developers: The Parts That Matter
- Development

How to Design a REST API
- Development

Edge Functions Explained: What Runs Where
- Development

How to Set Up CI/CD for a Small Team
- Development

Observability: Logs, Metrics and Traces
- Development

Database Migrations Without Downtime
- Development

How to Build Embeddings and Vector Search
- Development

Webhooks: Design and Reliability
- Development

How to Write Documentation Developers Read
- Development

Staging Environments Done Right
