Diagnosis before spectacle.
Technology is not used to impress. It is used when it helps something work better than before.
Erik Garcés · Founder of HME84 · Mexico City
Erik Garcés, behind HME84
Seeing order where others see chaos.
Some profiles are explained by job titles. This one is not. I work with information, processes and technology to understand problems and turn them into concrete decisions and tools. At HME84, I start by listening: what is happening, who experiences the problem and what needs to change.
I design digital systems and AI-assisted tools for businesses that need to organize operations, communication and decision-making. Decisions about tools, scope and development follow from listening.
Not to translate. To solve. Data, product and technology with business judgment, experience in large organizations and hands-on execution.
01 · listen
Before proposing, understand what problem actually exists.
02 · organize
Separate anxiety from tools, real debt from opportunity.
03 · build
Only when there is a clear reason to do so.
I first seek to understand the context. A recommendation needs to explain what I observed, what I propose and what remains to be confirmed. Development is defined around that understanding and the project's conditions.
Systems that can actually be operated.
Good design does not end in the prototype. It has to support conversation, decision, continuity, and maintenance.
Clarity without performance.
AI, data, and product only have value when they land in real context: business, costs, people, flow, and responsibility.
This is not a full chronology. It is my personal experience before HME84: regulated environments, data governance, BI, adoption and operations in large organizations. Those organizations are not HME84 clients.
BCE · Orange
Regulated environments, data governance and adoption.
Experience related to data governance and master data management (MDM), in contexts where architecture, information, regulation and adoption need to work together.
Danone · BBVA
BI, analytics, and business decision-making.
Work with information, processes and operations in organizations where data informs costs, priorities and decisions.
HME84
Built practice, not just recommendations.
The studio brings together my work in assessment, systems design and digital tool development. Public projects describe their scope and status.
Evidence
What gets built shows how HME84 thinks.
They do not appear as trophies, and they are not at the same stage. Guardian is a living prototype: this site's chat, in use. MIRANDA is in design. Loop84 is the method we assess with.
The public layer is a reading, not the full workshop.
The page shows the thinking. The depth starts in conversation.
Guardian · In use
Living prototype: this site's chat.
It turns a first conversation into useful context about services and fit, without pretending the human part stopped mattering.
Loop84 · Method
The method behind the Blueprint.
Making the real state of work visible: what works, what creates friction, what is blocking and the next safe action.
MIRANDA · In design
A product in design, with no app yet.
A private space where AI helps you think and remember. Today there is a product definition and documentation; it is not presented as a finished product. See status.
The most valuable diagnosis is not the one that sells. It is the one that tells the truth.
If something needs to be built, it gets built. If not, there also has to be enough judgment to say so.
AI does not replace judgment. It makes it more demanding.
Next conversation
Technology works better when there is judgment behind it.
HME84 reads systems quietly: what hurts, what matters, and what should be built, adjusted, or left alone.
If this way of thinking matches what you are trying to organize, the next conversation can begin there: no performance, no pressure, just a clearer read of the problem.