Ricardo Ledan is a New York-based engineer and the founder of studio1804, an independent AI research lab.

Previously at Deloitte, where he spent five years building production AI systems for Fortune 500 and federal government clients — multi-agent intelligence platforms, regulatory compliance systems, and analytics tools. Before that, he worked on Bankrate.com's rate comparison tables and advertiser marketplace at Red Ventures.

His practice spans AI systems, distributed infrastructure, and security research. He also contributes to open source tooling for developers.

Select Projects

Rasin.ai AI-powered research platform for exploring Caribbean history and culture — 228K+ pages, 4 languages, hybrid vector/graph search.
Harombe Self-hosted agent orchestration framework for building and deploying multi-agent systems.
MumbleRap.ai AI-powered rap coaching platform — real-time flow analysis, BPM detection, syllable scoring, and competitive battle arena.

Research

2026 The Capability-Container Pattern: Infrastructure-Level Security for Autonomous AI Agents Formal security model and benchmarks for MCP-based autonomous agent systems. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18614503

Writing

2026-02-03 Navigate by Meaning
2026-02-02 Thinking In Human
2025-11-29 Building AI from the Margins
2025-10-27 Deep Dive: Building a Knowledge Graph from Scratch
2025-06-15 Building Multi-Agent Systems: A Supervisor Architecture Deep Dive
2023-08-07 The Art of LangSmithing
2023-05-06 Deploying ChromaDB on AWS
2023-04-10 Building Context-Aware Question-Answering Systems With LLMs