Your technology and AI lab

Big ideas deserve to get off the ground.

We are the technology team your company doesn’t have yet: an AI-first CTO who owns the product and a lab that builds it, from the first product to a team ready to grow.

30 minutes, no strings attached. You leave with a clear path.

Scientist monkey, the Monkey Labs mascot
Curiosity is where we start.

Is technology holding
your business back?

A product that never ships, a team that delivers slowly, systems that fail at the worst time, technical decisions nobody can defend, AI everyone talks about and nobody has put to work. We step in, sort it out and build.

Digital products

Your idea in real customers’ hands.

App, web platform, internal system or AI product: we build the whole thing, from the first prototype to a version that can handle growth. That is how Nuah, one of our apps, was born.

  • Product
  • Design
  • Web and apps
  • Systems
  • AI
Head of tech & CTO

A CTO on your team, without hiring one.

Daniel Silva joins as your company’s Head of Technology and answers for the result: architecture, product, team and delivery. He makes the calls, builds alongside you and explains every choice without jargon.

Ten years building products used by millions of people, at companies like The Door, Intuit, Rocket.Chat and Neon. Today he builds AI projects that speed up teams and development.

  • AI first
  • Architecture
  • Product
  • Team building
  • Scale
Portrait of Daniel Silva, CTO of Monkey Labs
Daniel SilvaCTO

AI first, from code to team.

Today Daniel is building AI projects that speed up teams and development. At Monkey Labs, AI is there from day one: in how we build, in your team’s routine and inside your product.

Speed up my team with AI

What we’ve
built.

Real products, used by millions of people. Some are ours. Others were born inside the companies where Daniel led technology.

Nuah

Bible, devotionals and prayer, every day.

Built from scratch by Monkey Labs: iPhone and Android app, our own back end, premium subscription, daily streaks, friends and widgets. A few minutes a day to rest in God’s presence.

  • iPhone and Android
  • React Native + Expo
  • Cloudflare Workers
Discover Nuah Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play
Nuah streak screen showing 23 days in a row Nuah Today screen with the day’s path Nuah friends screen with this week’s top readers

Where Daniel has built.

Banks, HR platforms, accounting systems and communication tools that teams around the world use every day.

Full profile on LinkedIn ↗
  1. The Door2026 – present

    Head of Technology

    Built the company’s technology from scratch and shipped two apps. They are still in stealth, and already delivering results.

    • 2 apps from scratch
    • In stealth, already delivering
  2. Monkey Labssince 2019

    Head of Technology

    The lab where Daniel builds custom software and AI projects that speed up teams, plus its own apps, like Nuah.

    • AI projects
    • Own apps, like Nuah
  3. GoCo.io · Intuit2024 – present

    Lead Mobile Engineer, now Senior Software Engineer at Intuit

    GoCo is the HR and benefits platform for small and mid-sized US businesses, acquired by Intuit in 2025. Daniel led its app side by side with the CTO and now builds at Intuit, the company behind QuickBooks and TurboTax.

    • +1.1 stars in the stores
    • 70% faster dev setup
  4. Rocket.Chat2021 – 2024

    Senior Mobile Developer

    Built the app of the open source communications platform used by more than 12 million people in over 150 countries.

    • 12 million users
    • 150+ countries
  5. WeClever2022 – 2023

    Mobile Architect

    Redesigned the app architecture of the salestech that helps companies sell more online, and got the team ready to run it on its own.

    • Scalable architecture
    • Team mentored
  6. Neon2021

    Mobile Software Engineer

    Built features for the app of one of Brazil’s largest digital banks, now past 20 million customers.

    • 20 million+ customers
    • One of Brazil’s largest
  7. Qulture.Rocks2019 – 2021

    Mobile Software Engineer

    Built and shipped the app of the performance, OKR and feedback platform used by mid-sized and large companies.

    • Live in the stores
    • Mid-sized and large companies
  8. Tron Informática2018 – 2019

    Web and Mobile Developer

    Led the apps of the accounting system used by thousands of accounting firms, and built on the web and .NET Core back end.

    • Thousands of accounting firms
    • Web, mobile and .NET

Teaching and mentoring: FIAP (PÓS TECH in Full Stack Development), Codenation (AceleraDev) and Supera Tecnologia. Education: Computer Science degree (UNIP), postgraduate degree in Software Engineering and Architecture (UCAM) and MBA in Project Management (USP/Esalq).

How we work

Curiosity with direction.

Hard questions, honest conversations and decisions that make sense for your business. Nothing sits idle on the bench.

01
Understand before building

We talk to the people who use it, read the code and the numbers, and tell you plainly what is holding you back.

02
Build what matters first

Clear priorities, weekly releases and a product you can watch move.

03
Leave the house in order

Process, documentation and a team that keeps going without depending on us.

Technology is about
people too.

A good product is born where good questions, conscious decisions and people who love making things happen meet.

Product mindset

Code is a means. What matters is customers using it and the business growing.

No middlemen

You talk directly to the people who decide and the people who build. Nobody passes messages along.

Built to work

The first version ships fast, and the architecture holds up when the business grows.

Got a restless idea?

Tell us what is holding you back. In a 30-minute call you leave with a clear path, even if you don’t end up working with us.