ANA WESTFAL

Startup mentor · AI educator

I help global products grow in Brazil and LATAM, where local behaviour sets the terms

Sixteen years across growth, insight, and P&L. Twelve at P&G on multi-billion-dollar brands. Four building products and communities from zero in Brazil and LATAM. The thread connecting all of it: understand what people actually do, then build the thing that meets them there.

Previously Uniswap Labs/ Consensys/ MetaMask/ P&G

Selected work

Selected work across AI knowledge systems, regional growth and community adoption.

More work & collaborations

In production

Vesta

Product strategy and growth · Stellar · 2026

Reusable identity verification, from concept to a running product with one developer. I shaped what got built, the go-to-market strategy, and institutional partnerships in Brazil during my contract with HOUS3.

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Product strategy from concept to a running product, working with one developer: what gets built, how it reaches market, and the partnerships that put it in front of Brazilian institutions. The product is reusable KYC, where someone verifies once and then proves a policy outcome to the next platform with a zero-knowledge proof, and a Soroban contract on Stellar splits a commission each time that credential is reused.

Shipped

Hous3 Stage

An app I built with AI

Live Q&A and voting for events. The audience joins with a code.

Read the story

One of nine tools and sites I built and put online with AI. Stage gives an event audience a place to ask questions and vote. Open the live app to explore it.

2026

Corporate AI training

HOUS3
Designed and delivered workshops that took companies from AI fundamentals to applied workflows, built around each client's actual work.
In production

AI growth automation stack

HOUS3
Automated analysis flows and generated internal tooling that replace manual reporting: pulling data, running the read, and drafting the output. Built for a small team where nobody had hours to spend rebuilding the same report each week.
Shipped

This site

Three.js · built with Claude
Designed and built the portfolio you're reading, including the interactive WebGL house and content system. A working example of shipping production software as a non-engineer with AI as the build partner.
Shipped

Knowledge Marketplace

Colosseum Agent Hackathon
Built and shipped an agent marketplace on Solana DevNet using Antigravity, Claude, and Codex. First time building agents. Shipped anyway.
Founding member

Solana Superteam Brazil

Market entry, 0-to-1
Advised the LATAM lead and core team through inception. Supported early community growth and guided the team on IRL meetups, build-stations, hackathons, and budget administration.
Advisor

DeFindex

Growth strategy & GTM
Growth and go-to-market strategy for yield infrastructure built for neobanks and financial apps. Competitive positioning, chain expansion analysis, and partner narratives, then on the road with the team for their North America investor tour.
Mentor

Web3Valley & Seedstars

FastTrack Program
Strategic mentorship for startups on growth and product development.

More field footage

Solana Copa América 8 countries, 16 startups — a hackathon played like a football cup

About

Ana Westfal

I own the funnel, the insight behind it, and the budget that funds it.

I started in consumer insight and finance at P&G in Geneva. Qual and quant research, P&L planning, across Prestige, Hair Care, and Appliances. Twelve years that taught me a growth number only matters when the consumer truth underneath it is solid.

Then I moved that foundation into Brazil and LATAM, where market entry means working through payment rails, regulation, and user behaviour specific to the region. Growth Lead LATAM at Uniswap Labs. Community and support across MetaMask, Infura, and VillageDAO at Consensys. Each role asked for the same thing: localise the strategy without losing the signal.

Today I work as a startup mentor and AI educator. I mentor startups in the Colosseum hackathon alongside Superteam Brasil and teach practical uses of AI, from everyday workflows to building a portfolio. I also contribute to Hivemind's knowledge systems at Myosin DAO.

The through-line: people are already somewhere. The job is to go there, understand the context, and build for what's actually happening on the ground.

What I do

01

Growth funnel ownership

Acquisition → activation → retention
Own the full funnel end to end. Define success metrics, track performance across acquisition channels, run the experiments, and turn what works into a repeatable playbook other markets can execute.
02

Market entry & 0-to-1

Emerging markets, LATAM depth
Translate local user behaviour, payment rails, regulation, and competitive dynamics into a product and channel strategy. Build the network of creators, partners, and communities that makes entry possible.
03

Consumer insight & data

P&G-trained, qual and quant
Immersive consumer research and quantitative analysis used to shape category strategy and product innovation at multi-billion-dollar scale.
04

AI as an operating layer

In production
Automated analysis flows, generated internal tooling, and structured knowledge systems an AI can reason over, plus training other teams to work this way through hands-on corporate workshops.
05

Partnerships, KOLs & vendors

Selection through performance
Source, negotiate, and manage creator and partner relationships end to end, then hold them to performance. Stakeholder management across local teams and global product, brand, and engineering.
06

Budget & P&L

Finance-trained operator
Financial analysis, budget and P&L planning across global CPG brands, then campaign and program budgets in web3. I can build the business case as well as run the campaign.

Experience

Present

Startup Mentor

Colosseum hackathon · Alongside Superteam Brasil
  • Mentor startups participating in the Colosseum hackathon alongside Superteam Brasil.
StartupsMentorshipSolana
Present

AI Educator

Applied AI · Classes and workshops
  • Teach practical uses of AI, including everyday workflows and building a portfolio.
AI EducationWorkshopsApplied AI
2026
Present

AI Knowledge Architect — Hivemind

Myosin DAO · Member & ongoing collaborator · Remote
  • Design and curate a knowledge base that turns operator experience and market intelligence into structured documentation an AI system can reason over.
  • Co-created the document types and thinking patterns that train and guide AI-assisted decision-making.
AI Knowledge SystemsDocumentationMarket Intelligence
2026

Product Strategist & Growth Manager

HOUS3 · Digital build studio · Remote
  • Worked on product strategy for Vesta and Steady, a cybersecurity product.
  • Worked on the Triple Track framework for HOUS3 Track, an internal product designed to improve the efficiency of technology product delivery.
  • The framework brought together Business, Discovery and Delivery. During my contract, Track covered Delivery while Business and Discovery were in development.
  • Through Business Lab, worked on expanding the partner network, developing a community and positioning HOUS3 in technology project development.
  • Designed and delivered AI training for external companies: workshops from fundamentals through applied workflows, tailored to each team's actual work.
  • Contract concluded on 2 October 2026.
Product StrategyGrowthAI AutomationAI TrainingPartnerships
2025
2026

Growth Lead, LATAM

Uniswap Labs · Remote
  • Owned regional growth strategy across Brazil and LATAM, designing education-first go-to-market motions to drive product adoption and participation.
  • Defined success metrics, tracked performance across acquisition channels, and translated insight into repeatable playbooks for scaling across the region.
  • Ran hybrid IRL and creator-led campaigns end to end. Street activations, meetups, KOL programs, from strategy and budget through measurement and reporting.
  • Built and managed local creator, community, and partner networks, aligning regional execution with global product and brand priorities.
Regional GrowthGTMKOL ProgramsBudget OwnershipLATAM
2022
2025

Lead Community Support

Consensys · MetaMask, Infura, VillageDAO · Remote
  • Led support strategy and data insight across three products, spanning Discord, X, Reddit, Telegram, and forums.
  • Expanded MetaMask Card reach through Community Builder Nights, a repeatable IRL format local organisers could run independently.
  • Grew VillageDAO through onboarding, training, business development, and go-to-market.
  • Drove engagement through community calls, IRL events, onboarding, and incentivized activations.
Support StrategyData InsightGTMIRL Programs
2010
2022

Consumer Insights & Finance

Procter & Gamble · Geneva, Switzerland
  • Consumer immersive exploration and qual/quant research directly shaping female category business strategy, product innovation, and sustainability impact.
  • Financial analysis, budget and P&L planning, reporting and coordination across multi-billion-dollar brands in Prestige, Hair Care, and Appliances.
  • Twelve years operating inside a global matrix. The training ground for aligning local execution with global priorities.
Consumer InsightP&L PlanningQual / Quant ResearchGlobal CPG

NFTs

I started collecting in 2021 and never really stopped. Seventy-eight pieces here, mostly Ethereum with a few on Polygon and Base: mint passes from communities I joined, art I liked enough to keep, and markers from moments the network lived through: the Merge, ten years of Ethereum, a World Cup. Read as a set, it is a record of which rooms I was standing in, and when.

Communities

Three I show up for outside of client work.

Mentor

SheFi

Women in web3
A global education program getting women into web3, cohort by cohort. I mentor fellows on their way in: how the industry actually works, and how to build a career in it.
Collector

Honey Badgers

Bitcoin Ordinals · since inscription #81557
One of the first 10,000-piece collections inscribed directly on Bitcoin, art and metadata onchain rather than pointing off-chain. I've held a piece since early in the collection's run.
Founding member

Superteam Brazil

Solana builders, Brazil and LATAM
The Solana builder community for Brazil and LATAM: hackathons, grants, and IRL meetups. I was there from the start and still show up.

Guest book

You came all the way down the alley, so sign the wall. Visitors, colleagues, anyone I built something with. I read every note before it goes up, so yours takes a moment to appear.

Stack

The tools I reach for daily. Working fluency, from prompt to production.

AI
ClaudeChatGPTGemini GrokFlowHivemind Notion custom SkillsMCP servers ElevenLabs Agents
Build
AntigravityClaude CodeCodex SupabaseAPIs
Ship
VercelRailwayNetlify GitHub ActionsPostHog Telegram & WhatsApp bots

Now

I'm focused on startup mentoring and AI education: helping founders move forward and people put AI to work.

Ongoing

Startup mentoring

Colosseum hackathon · Superteam Brasil

I mentor startups participating in the Colosseum hackathon alongside Superteam Brasil.

Ongoing

AI education

Classes · Workshops · Practical applications

I teach practical uses of AI, from everyday workflows to building a portfolio. The focus is on learning through real tasks.

Ongoing

Hivemind

AI knowledge systems · Myosin DAO

I help develop and curate Hivemind's knowledge base, building on the document types and thinking patterns I co-created with the team.

Focused on
  • Hivemind knowledge systems at Myosin DAO
  • AI tools and experiments in the house playground
Studied
  • MBA, Digital Business — USP
  • BA, Business & Management — Unigran
Working in
  • Portuguese & English — native / fluent
  • French & Spanish — working
Based
  • São Paulo region, Brazil
  • Fully remote
  • LATAM-native, globally distributed teams
  • Comfortable across time zones

Contact

Ana Westfal
Ana WestfalStartup Mentorship & AI Education
São Paulo region · Remote

I'm most useful to teams growing in markets where local context shapes the strategy.

Book a call Pick a slot that works for you.
Open to
  • Market entry and scaling across Brazil and LATAM
  • AI training and workshops for teams
  • Advisory for early-stage teams
  • Speaking and panels
Not looking for
  • Unpaid "exposure" advisory
  • Cold outreach with no role attached
  • Token-shilling campaigns
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