LOU MATA

FOUNDER - OPERATOR - INVESTOR

BUILDING YODO, A CPG BRAND ROOTED IN COSTA RICA’S BLUE ZONE. PREVIOUSLY COFOUNDED MAINFRAME. I WRITE MAZU, A NEWSLETTER ON SYSTEMS THINKING AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR. ANGEL INVESTOR. CONSULTANT TO EARLY STAGE COMPANIES THROUGH RIN.

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SELECTED WORK

TYPE

¹⁰

COBOT

TECH

2025

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YODO

CPG

2025

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MAINFRAME

TECH

2024

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THIRDWALL

TECH

2023

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VARIOUS

ARCH

ETC

7 THIRDWALL

TYPE: TECH

34/98/5973

An early experiment in applied AI — a concept for an AI therapist that let users select and apply different therapeutic frameworks, CBT, DBT, IPT, Psychodynamic, to their conversations in real time.

Built in late 2023 in the immediate wake of GPT-4. Less about the product and more about probing a question: what happens when clinical structure meets conversational AI? The anime visual language was intentional — making something inherently heavy feel approachable.

Never shipped. The question was worth asking anyway.