Deco Day 2025 @ SP Tech Week · decocms
Deco Day 2025 @ SP Tech Week
Leandro Borges
September 10, 2025
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During SP Tech Week, Deco Day brought together more than 400 participants — both in person and online — to discuss the future of software development in the age of artificial intelligence.
The event took place at the AWS GenAI Loft and featured a diverse agenda, including:
- Launch of deco CMS – The Context Management System
- Panel: How to Build AI-Native Startups
- Panel: Community as a Strategy and the impact of AI on entrepreneurship
- Mangabeira Unger: AI and the Future of Brazil
Launch of deco CMS
Opening the event, deco co-founder and CEO, Guilherme Rodrigues, presented a panel covering:
deco Context
Founded in mid-2022, deco had its first store in production in 2023, and currently processes 500 million pageviews per month, serving leading brands such as Farm, Casa & Video, Fila, Osklen, and hundreds of others.
Guilherme emphasized that deco has always aimed to solve the challenge of building complex software, as the Headless CMS (Content Management Platform) originally was, relying on 3 pillars:
- Simplification
- Collaboration
- Ecosystem
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deco Context
Impact of AI on Software Development
Powerful LLM models for code generation, such as Anthropic's Sonnet 3.5, made code generation extremely cheaper, ushering in a new era of Vibecoding.
This fundamental change has meant that software that previously had to serve large masses because it was costly can now be made in a granular and tailor-made way.
Agentic software, made with AI and using AI at its core, is much cheaper and at the same time more valuable. However, as generating code is only one of the challenges of deploying a complete software into production, we now have a graveyard of beautiful demos that will never go live.
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Impact of AI on Software Development
To cover the gap between a proof of concept, developers need to integrate dozens of other vendors into their solution to launch securely.
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deco CMS Introduction
In this context, deco CMS emerges as a response to the new paradigm: an open-source admin to create, evolve, and govern all of a company's internal AI tools from day one.
Again, a challenge solved on 3 fronts:
- Simplification: everything in one place
- Collaboration: developers and business users in harmony
- Ecosystem: implementation partners and educational content
Deco's different brands, such as deco.cx, webdraw, and deco.chat, cease to exist. Now there's only a single product: DECO.
This new CMS, instead of managing content, is now a Context Management System that organizes the right context for artificial intelligence to be productive, efficient, and, itself, generate the necessary content.
[demo] deco CMS Notebook App
Luciano Júnior, deco co-founder, demonstrated a specific use case using the "Notebook" application, creating on the same screen, a software that:
- Integrates with Shopify
- Analyzes the quality of product descriptions
- Activates an AI, via chat, to propose copy improvements
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[demo] deco CMS Notebook App
Real Cases of Agentic Software
Following, real cases of agentic software developed by the deco team in partnership with their design partners such as Gupy, Instituto Libertas, Superfrete, Farm Rio, and LiveMode (CazéTV) were presented.
The latter, in particular, had its solution detailed, consisting of:
- AI Scrapper
- AI Copy Agent
- AI Template Selection Agent
- AI Figma Filling Agent
Finally, Carolina Bezerra, responsible for the LiveMode project, spoke a little about the challenge and impact of the solution.
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Real Cases of Agentic Software
[demo] deco.cx is now deco Sites App
Closing the content of the deco CMS launch, a demonstration was given by deco engineer, Guilherme Tavano, on how the original Headless CMS product ( deco.cx) now becomes an application within the deco CMS called deco Sites.
With the solution for creating and managing websites now being AI-First, the demonstrated AI Agent was able to autonomously:
- Integrate a store with VTEX
- Correct a JavaScript error from the observability tool
- Create a new component from an on-brand Figma
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[demo] deco.cx is now deco Sites App
To gain deco CMS early access, join our AI Agents workshop: https://luma.com/x4wmpyp8
To become official deco partners, you can certify your developers at our upcoming https://deco.camp
Panel: Building AI-Native Startups
Three founders of AI-Native startups were invited to discuss the challenges and opportunities of entrepreneurship within this space. The panel, moderated by Rafael Crespo (baby), deco co-founder, featured:
- João Paulo Martins, founder and CTO of Advolve.ai
- Rafael Tinoco, founder and CTO of Arvo
- Claudio Franco, founder and CEO of Tivita.
Among the many topics covered, highlights include:
- Challenges of using AI in production and at high scale
- Go-To-Market and pricing strategies
- Scarcity and attraction of talent
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Panel: Building AI-Native Startups
Panel: Community, Micro-SaaS, and SMB
In the next panel, moderated by Leandro Borges, Head of Growth at deco, three other founders of companies based on communities and with a direct impact on individual entrepreneurship and small businesses were invited. Present were:
- Daniel Lima, founder and CEO of Abacatepay
- Bruno Okamoto, founder of the Micro-SaaS Community and Pixel Educação
- Davi Holanda, founder and CEO of Jota
Among the various topics addressed, highlights include:
- Creating communities as a product development strategy
- AI as a window of opportunity for entrepreneurship
- The future of SaaS and the opportunity for micro-SaaS
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Panel: Community, Micro-SaaS, and SMB
Keynote: AI and the Future of Brazil
Closing the event, Guilherme Rodrigues, co-founder and CEO of deco, interviewed professor and philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger. The central proposal articulated is that Brazil should assume global technological leadership with innovation and audacity.
The main foundations of Mangabeira's thesis are that it is possible to create an inclusive knowledge economy, in which AI complements human imagination, empowering small businesses and self-employed entrepreneurs.
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Keynote: AI and the Future of Brazil