Davao made me.
I grew up in Davao. That's home — my roots, my territory. I was raised inside business: my parents ran several, so entrepreneurship wasn't a subject to me, it was the air in the house. I was always going to build.
I wanted to build software, specifically — back when engineering and computer science were the most-wanted work in the country. I tried to learn to code. I couldn't crack it; it's genuinely hard and it didn't come to me. So I took the path that did, and studied Entrepreneurship at Ateneo de Davao University — graduated in 2016.
I'm also a photographer. I notice light, framing, the small thing that makes something feel right instead of merely correct. Same instinct, different medium. A builder at heart — quietly locked out of the one tool he most wanted to use.
“A builder who couldn't write the code — so I went and learned everything around it instead.”
2020. We left.
In 2020 I moved to Canada with my family. First stop wasn't a city — it was Port Hardy, a town of about six thousand at the far tip of Vancouver Island. One year, in a very small place, a long way from Davao.
A town that small teaches you things a city can't. Mostly: you make your own momentum, or there isn't any.
Inside a real startup.
Then Calgary. I joined Neo Financial — the city's top fintech startup — as a sales rep. By 2023 I was a sales manager.
That's where I saw, from the inside, how a serious company actually scales: the speed, the systems, what “good” really looks like when the stakes are real. I wasn't writing the software. But I was learning exactly how software businesses win.
Back to Davao, to build.
In 2023 I left Calgary and moved home to start Bleuspace. My mother had built in real estate — bought property, built and sold houses, took on condos. I continued the line, and built it into the #1 short-term-rental brand in Davao — the only operator in the city running a serious tech stack: Guesty, and the AI operating layer we built on top of it.
Coming back wasn't a step down from the Calgary job. It was the whole point of taking it.
Then the tools caught up.
I'd used ChatGPT from the day it launched — every day, for the small things. Then early this year I went all the way in: navigating code, Claude, OpenClaw, the Hermes agent, and finally Claude Code. Weeks, not years.
The thing I couldn't do for a decade, I can do now — not because I became someone else, but because the gap between seeing it and shipping it finally closed. Made by hand, helped by machine. That's not a slogan here. It's the literal account of how I work. This is where we are now.
Why Davao. Why now.
I'm choosing Davao on purpose. It's my territory, and I think it's my calling as a builder: help the community, help businesses grow, put the tools in their hands — show them how to run on AI-ready systems and stay future-proof.
Because the next three to five years aren't subtle. Businesses will run on agents — millions of them, working and deciding and operating around the clock. The ones who get ready will compound. The ones who don't won't make it.
Yoshi Labs is what I do with the keys now that I have them — and I'm handing the same leverage to the people who'd otherwise be locked out, the way I was.
“In a few years, every business will run on agents. The ones that aren't ready won't make it. We make you ready.”
What we're building.
Build the software the next decade will run on — architected for AI agents, not retrofitted for them.
The future we work toward.
A Philippines where every business is ready for the agent era — running on software made for it, not against it.