Three partners, one thesis about AI governance, and a platform built with the platform itself. No façade, and no black box over who is on the other side of the conversation.
The company
What is h|ve (Hybrid Velocity)?
Hybrid Velocity, h|ve, is a Brazilian Operational Intelligence startup built on agentic AI for software development, created to help companies get the most out of AI. We connect the decisions of your business areas with AI. That is the only way to reach the full potential.
How it works
h|ve installs a common layer between people, agents and tools, unifying context, rules and the record of every decision. That is how your clients put AI into operation with governance, control and measurable results.
What h|ve is not
h|ve is not a code generator and it is not an AI model. It is the Operational Intelligence layer that coordinates, governs and makes auditable the work AI carries out across the whole business.
About us
Three founders who lived the problem h|ve solves.
We are an Operational Intelligence company that connects strategy, AI engineering and specialized knowledge to solve real business challenges and get the most out of AI, under governance.
We build solutions for companies that want the full benefit of AI and need to grow, operate better and make long-term decisions.
h|ve came out of a practical frustration: AI agents started writing software at machine speed, and companies kept governing that work with processes designed for all-human teams.
We are three founders from different backgrounds, engineering, product and technology leadership, with the same read on where this breaks. We built the platform using the platform itself, and that is how it evolves every day.
André JB Rodrigues
Cofounder and Business Lead
Solutions · Business · Strategy · GTM · Capital
André JB Rodrigues
Leads strategy and market relationships, translating how companies really operate into product requirements.
Owns the architecture and the build of the platform, from Flow to Guard.
Horácio Soares
Cofounder and Product Lead
Product · Experience · Roadmap · Activation
Horácio Soares
Takes care of the product and the experience of the people running the method day to day.
The name
Why the name h|ve.
h|ve
Hybrid Velocity · hybrid velocity
The name comes from Hybrid Velocity: the machine speed agents bring, inside a hybrid model where people and agents work side by side, not in separate lanes.
The bar in the middle of the name is not decoration. It is the gate: the crossing where the decision returns to the person. The same shape the platform uses to separate what the machine proposes from what the person approves.
And there is the hive the name evokes. Many workers, one structure, one purpose. It is the picture of an operation where distributed effort stays governed by a common rule.
