I help companies and professional firms turn artificial intelligence into concrete results: documents that analyze themselves, assistants that answer from your own data, processes that stop stealing time. Backed by 20+ years of enterprise software engineering — in sectors where mistakes are expensive.
First discovery call is free and non-binding. I'll tell you honestly whether AI can help you — and if it can't, I'll tell you that too.
Four concrete ways to work together. Every service has a clear deliverable: you know what you get, when, and why.
I analyze your processes, identify where AI creates real value and where it's just hype, and deliver a roadmap with priorities, estimated costs and risks. No vague slides: a plan you can execute.
I design and build production-ready AI systems: automated document analysis, assistants that answer from your company data, automation of repetitive workflows. With privacy, GDPR and running costs kept under control.
Solid architectures and full-stack development: .NET/C# backends, cross-platform Flutter apps, databases and data warehouses. From domain design (DDD) to deployment, with maintainable code that doesn't turn into debt.
I bring IT Manager experience into your company part-time: governance, vendor selection, security, compliance (including DORA for the financial sector), and a technology strategy that supports the business instead of slowing it down.
Real systems, designed with three constraints always in place: your data stays yours, costs stay predictable, results are measurable.
The problem: hours of manual work on PDFs, reports and contracts.
Document-intelligence pipelines that read, extract and structure data from financial and contractual documents. I built one for financial reports with fully on-premise processing: no sensitive data ever leaves the company.
The problem: the answers exist, but they're scattered across a thousand documents.
Conversational assistants that answer using your company's documentation — manuals, procedures, knowledge bases — with source citations and built-in privacy filters. Cloud architecture with local fallback: works even offline.
The problem: your team loses hours on low-value tasks.
Agentic workflows that orchestrate multiple systems: classifying emails and case files, generating drafts, running data-quality checks. AI does the rough work, people validate and decide.
The problem: AI in regulated contexts requires double expertise.
I know the constraints and language of banks and insurers from the inside: ESG product classification, regulatory documentation analysis, DORA compliance. AI solutions that pass the compliance test.
A four-step path designed to reduce risk: small initial investment, early results, and you decide at every step whether to continue.
You tell me the problem, I tell you frankly if and how I can help. No commitment, no surprise quotes.
You receive a written proposal with clear goals, deliverables, timeline and costs. You know exactly what you're buying.
I always start with a concrete, measurable milestone — a working prototype, an analysis, an automated process. You see it, touch it, evaluate it.
If the result convinces you, we scale: more features, more processes, more value. With documentation and training so the system remains yours, not mine.
I'm Ivano Manara, IT Manager and Software Architect. For over twenty years I've designed and shipped software systems for banks, insurers and telecom companies — environments where a mistake isn't an annoyance, it's damage. That's where I learned to build things that actually work.
In recent years I've brought that discipline into AI Engineering: Large Language Models, RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems. I don't chase trends — I evaluate every technology for what it returns to the client. My rule: if a simple solution is enough, I won't sell you a complicated one.
I work from Pozzolengo, between Brescia and Lake Garda, with companies across Italy and Europe — on-site where it matters, remotely where it's smarter.
Roles of growing responsibility in the most demanding sectors — described by role and field, out of respect for client confidentiality.
Leading the IT department: policies, standards, operational continuity. Drafting and implementing DORA compliance procedures. Building internal productivity solutions.
Mapping the business domain with Domain-Driven Design, facilitating Event Storming sessions with stakeholders, building internal projects with ASP.NET Core and Docker.
Architectural solutions for complex integrations, demand-management processes, data quality, relationships with international banks and suppliers.
Architecture of a dealer platform on a full Microsoft stack, from web frontend to distributed services.
Web applications, integrations and mission-critical databases on SQL Server and MySQL.
Regulatory reporting, data warehousing and document management for banking institutions.
Often yes — sometimes more than for large ones. SMBs have repetitive processes concentrated on few people: automating even one frees up hours every week. In the free call we'll assess together whether it's worth it in your case — and if it isn't, I'll say so.
Only if you decide so. I design privacy-first architectures: on-premise processing or European servers, filters that anonymize personal data before any external call, and full GDPR compliance. For the most sensitive cases the entire solution can run on your own infrastructure, no cloud at all.
It depends on the problem, but the path is designed so you don't gamble: the call is free, the proposal is written with clear costs, and the first milestone arrives in 2–4 weeks with a contained investment. You decide whether to continue only after seeing a concrete result.
No. Half of my work is "classic" software done well: .NET backends, Flutter apps, databases, architectures. That's often where the value hides — a process needs fixing before you put AI on top of it.
Both. I'm based in Pozzolengo (Brescia), convenient for companies between Brescia, Verona, Mantua and Lake Garda. For the rest of Italy and Europe I work remotely in a structured way, with regular updates and everything documented.
No, and I insist on this: every project includes complete documentation and training for your team. The goal is that the system is yours. If you then want ongoing support, there's the Fractional IT Manager formula — but it's a choice, not a lock-in.
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