Tiago Pires — ExoCortex

Twenty years building web systems. A decade carrying Shipibo lineage medicine. These are not two careers — they are one life, and this site is its outside face.

I work with a deliberately small set of people whose work I believe in: practitioners, educators, healers, visionary artists, builders. Web development, systems architecture, hosting, and increasingly agentic systems — built to last, not to scale. The rooms below are real: each one is a window into something that actually runs.

The Cathedral
Twenty years of building for luminaries, healers, and makers — from Amazon maestros to stone marketplaces.
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The Castle
Inhabited desktops: real operating systems, kept alive and lived in — with AI agents as residents.
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The Armory
The tools I actually use: Guix, Devuan, Emacs, literate configuration, and the doctrine behind them.
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The Warroom
Essays on digital sovereignty — practiced, not posted.
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The Treasury
Game preservation, retrocomputing, mechanical keyboards, rare cacti.
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The Temple
A decade in the Shipibo lineage. The quiet room — the door is open, the depth is measured.
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The Loom
Living and building with AI agents as residents and lineage.
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The Academy
ChronoNebula — AI-driven education. Coming.
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The Gate
tiago@tiagopires.com — if the fit is right, I'll be here for years.
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