Operator by day. Builder by night.

I’ve spent 17+ years in executive support at City College of San Francisco. Today I’m Executive Assistant to the Chancellor. I’ve prepared the agendas, tracked the motions, and taken the minutes — for years, by hand, late into the evening after long board meetings.

Then I taught myself to build. Not as a career change — as a way out of work I knew too well. The result is BoardBreeze®: patent-pending, governance-aware AI meeting minutes now trusted by boards and colleges across North America. BoardBreeze® — which I invented and now build under Magneo Solutions, the company I co-founded with Duane Snider.

That dual identity is the whole point. I build AI for institutions because I am the institutional insider — I’ve lived the pain points my products solve, and I still live them every working day.

Credentials

• MA, Instructional TechnologySan Francisco State University
• Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence certificateUC Berkeley — January 2026
• Claude Code certificationDeepLearning.AI
• Microsoft Founders programBuilt an application sponsored by Microsoft
• U.S. Patent Pending“System and Method for Governance-Aware Automated Generation of Board Meeting Minutes with Parliamentary Procedure Recognition and Compliance Verification” — App. No. 63/999,464

How I build

I ship with TypeScript, React, and Node on AWS and GCP, and I’ve built production systems on the Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini APIs. Most of what I make is agentic: multi-agent pipelines with verification steps, because in governance work a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer.

Governance, from the inside

I don’t just build for boards — I sit on them. I hold a board seat at my HOA, and I’m active in NaFFAA and the Filipino American Democratic Club of San Francisco. When BoardBreeze checks a motion against parliamentary procedure, that logic comes from rooms I’ve actually sat in.

Off hours, I write about executive assistance and AI at graceesteban.com.