# Otávio Saoli

> Personal site of Otávio Saoli, Product & Design Lead at SmartHow (https://smarthow.com),
> the management system that runs itself: AI for the quality and operations teams of
> industrial plants. He writes about building good products with AI, with a focus on
> interface and experience design: what the AI shows, what it asks, and how people
> correct it. Content in English (root), Portuguese (/pt) and Spanish (/es). Every
> article has a markdown version at the same path with a .md extension.

- Author: Otávio Saoli
- Role: Product & Design Lead, SmartHow
- Based in: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Contact: contact@otaviosaoli.com
- About: https://otaviosaoli.com/about/

## Articles (en)

- [What the 2026 election showed about AI and democracy](https://otaviosaoli.com/articles/ai-and-the-2026-election.md): Brazil's social media election showed the three doors through which AI will enter its democracy: the voter, the elected official and the infrastructure. The country is not ready for any of them.

## Articles (pt-BR)

- [O que a eleição de 2026 mostrou sobre IA e democracia](https://otaviosaoli.com/pt/articles/ai-and-the-2026-election.md): A eleição das redes mostrou por onde a inteligência artificial vai entrar na democracia brasileira: pelo eleitor, pelo eleito e pela infraestrutura. O Brasil não se preparou para nenhuma das três portas.

## Articles (es)

- [Lo que las elecciones de 2026 mostraron sobre la IA y la democracia](https://otaviosaoli.com/es/articles/ai-and-the-2026-election.md): Las elecciones de las redes en Brasil mostraron las tres puertas por las que la inteligencia artificial va a entrar en su democracia: el votante, el electo y la infraestructura. El país no se preparó para ninguna de las tres.