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Pablo Araujo

Of about 500 developers approved for the Cerebral Valley "Built with Opus 4.7" hackathon, only 2 are Brazilian.

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A scout agent crawls 1,240 curated sources weekly, and a strategist agent ranks matches and cites the user's own GitHub and CV evidence.

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Of about 500 developers approved for the Cerebral Valley "Built with Opus 4.7" hackathon, only 2 are Brazilian. The same ratio shows up across fellowships, grants, and accelerators. Brazil has over a million developers. The talent isn't missing. It's unmapped. Radar is a career plan, not a job board. Three Claude Opus 4.7 agents working together. Anamnesis reads you, your GitHub, your CV, your trajectory, and writes a profile honest enough to use in an application. Scout is one shared agent that runs on its own every week, crawls 1,240+ curated sources (FAPESP, Emergent Ventures, Chevening, MEXT, YC, Fundação Estudar, GSoC, MATS), and adds new ones it discovers along the way. Strategist matches the two: it ranks the opportunities for you specifically, writes a why-you paragraph that cites things you actually did, and lays out a 90-day plan around the cards it picked. I opened the waitlist this week. Fifty Brazilian developers signed up in five days. I sat down with five of them. An undergrad with published research and mentors who couldn't name a single fellowship he was a strong fit for. A senior mid-career engineer looking for what's next. A junior dev who got her first job through a referral and had never heard any of this existed. Different stages, same gap: not "I don't know what exists", but "I don't know what I'd be a fit for". Brazil doesn't have a brain drain. It has an information drain. Radar finds the opportunity, and finds the person. Live: radar.pabloaa.com (invite-only beta during judging) · Showcase, no signup: radar.pabloaa.com/showcase · Source: github.com/pablo-aa/radar (AGPL-3.0).
pablo-aa/radar★ 310 forksTypeScriptAGPL-3.0Created Apr 23, 2026 · last push Apr 26, 2026

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# Radar

![Radar — a visual history of the opportunities Brazilian developers miss](docs/assets/hero.webp)

> A career-plan platform for Brazilian developers. Three Claude Opus 4.7
> agents read you, crawl the world, and write a personal 90-day plan
> around the grants, fellowships, and bolsas you didn't know existed,
> and didn't know you'd be a fit for.

**Live demo:** [radar.pabloaa.com](https://radar.pabloaa.com)
**Demo video (3 min):** https://youtu.be/ueLPzXevysQ
**License:** AGPL-3.0
**Built for:** Cerebral Valley *Built with Opus 4.7* hackathon, April 2026

## The 2-in-500 problem

Of the ~500 developers approved for this hackathon, only 2 are Brazilian. The same ratio shows up across fellowships, grants, and accelerators. Brazil has over a million developers. The talent isn't missing. It's unmapped.

I opened a waitlist this week. Fifty Brazilian developers signed up in five days. I sat down with five of them. Different stages, same gap: an undergraduate with published research and mentors who couldn't name a single fellowship he was a strong fit for; a senior mid-career engineer looking for what's next; a junior dev who got her first job through a referral and had never heard of any of this. Not "I don't know what exists", but "I don't know what I'd be a fit for".

Brazil doesn't have a brain drain. It has an information drain. Radar finds the opportunity, and finds the person.

## Why I built it

I went to Japan twice through METI, the Ministry of Economy, Trade an

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