Francisco D'Eça
Cofounder · Agents, automation and campaignsHandles the agents, the automation, and putting the campaigns and paid media together. And he builds our own products with Eva.
15years in marketing
18years as an athlete
2015world champion, WMF
Education
A degree in International Relations from Universidade Lusíada and training in Marketing and Ecommerce at FLAG. Study continued alongside professional work, with more than fifteen courses and short programs in marketing, cybersecurity, and programming, on Coursera and other platforms. His focus today is artificial intelligence.
The work
He began in ecommerce and paid media, which widened into lead generation, social media management, and copywriting. He has worked in dropshipping, in pet and clothing retail, in business development and analysis in the cryptocurrency sector, and in marketing at a financial services company, as well as on brands such as Fiat, Jeep, Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Ford, and Mustang. He also ran a company of his own in the wine sector. Since 2020 his work has been artificial intelligence, first as a field of study and today as his main activity: AI agents, automation, and programming.
Experience
He lived in the United States and in Ireland, where he trained at Jackson Wink MMA and at SBG, two gyms of international standing in the making of world champions. Exposure to other markets came mainly through people: work and competition put him alongside professionals from every continent, in settings where the only shared language was the result. What remains from that is a reading of buying behavior and of the differences between markets.
How he works
Independent since the age of eighteen, he took on the full weight of his own responsibilities early, from the bills to the deadlines. Eighteen years of competitive sport added the discipline of making weight: a fighter who misses weight does not fight, and somebody used to that does not miss targets or deadlines either. To that habit belongs the principle that guides the work: understand the operation in full before defining any technical solution.
Outside the office
Eighteen years as a professional athlete and Muay Thai world champion in 2015, with the WMF. Brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, with a competitive record in MMA, boxing, K-1, swimming, and show jumping. He currently competes in Hyrox, at national and international events.
Eva D'Eça
Cofounder · Design, video and socialThe design, the video, and everything that goes out on social, for Sakuzo AI and for its clients, is her work. Creative gets decided in one place, and that place is hers.
12years in marketing
10+years as a professional model
2018national titles and campaigns in Russia
Education
A degree in International Relations from Universidade Lusíada and a postgraduate in Data Science for Marketing from NOVA IMS. She added Web Development at Ironhack, Graphic Design at ETIC, and Google's Atelier Digital. She funded her studies through her own work and completed both degrees while employed, with distinction.
The work
She began at a children's clothing brand, where she ran both the ecommerce and the social media, and went on to serve as marketing manager at Ingram Micro, responsible for campaigns, logistics, event organization, and consumer electronics for brands such as Marshall and Philips. In parallel, she founded and runs the largest book club in Portugal, with a newsletter of its own and a community built without a cent of paid media. Working across small-scale retail and international distribution gave her an uncommon reading of how brands operate, from the product itself all the way through to the shelf it ends up on.
Experience
Ten years as a professional model, with national titles and hair campaigns for brands such as Pantene, Mango, Zara, Lipton, and Wells. The work took her to large-scale campaigns in Russia and to regular collaboration with international teams and clients, on productions of scale and under firm deadlines. A decade in image production, on the other side of the camera, informs the company's creative decisions today, from the framing to the final cut.
How she works
Independent since the age of eighteen, she has managed the whole of her own responsibilities ever since, from the bills to the deadlines. She completed two degrees alongside full-time work, without dropping either. It is the same discipline that shows in the method: she brings design and data analysis together in one person, which removes the usual distance between whoever conceives a piece and whoever sits down afterwards to measure how it performed.
Outside the office
She trains regularly, built into the daily routine the same way any professional commitment is. She currently competes in Hyrox, at national and international events, and has years of training behind her, carried alongside a career that demanded constant availability.
