We are the people who build the things we advise on.
Glentio Lab is a venture studio and a consultancy. We create and operate our own digital products, and we help founders and businesses do the same.
Why this exists
Promising ideas usually do not fail because the founder lacked ambition. They fail because the path from idea to a working business is unclear, and the expensive mistakes happen early, before anyone knows enough to avoid them.
Most founders can find someone to advise them, and someone else to build for them. The gap is between the two: advice that never has to survive contact with a real product, and building that never questions whether the thing is worth making.
We closed that gap for ourselves by doing both. Glentio and Event Pass Reader are ours. We carry the same risks, make the same trade-offs, and live with the same decisions we would ask a founder to make.
How we work
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We challenge the idea before it gets expensive
The cheapest moment to discover a flaw is before development starts. We would rather have an uncomfortable conversation in week one than an expensive one in month six.
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Strategy and execution stay in the same room
The people shaping the business model are the people shaping the product. Nothing gets lost in a handover, because there is not one.
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Every engagement ends in a decision
Not a deck, not a discovery phase that quietly renews. Named deliverables, a defined end, and a clear recommendation.
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You stay involved and keep the final say
You see the work as it happens. We explain the technical decisions in plain language so you can weigh them, not just approve them.
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We say no
To scope that will not survive contact with users, to features that will not earn their maintenance, and sometimes to the whole idea.
Who we work with
- Aspiring founders with an idea and no clear execution plan
- Non-technical founders who need a product built and explained
- Early-stage startups needing product, strategy or growth support
- Small businesses turning a manual process into a digital product
The founder
Richard Cuaresma
He has spent over a decade as a finance professional in B2B roles, working directly with partners and managing a $1.4 billion portfolio. At Glentio Lab, the team is currently building Glentio, an event discovery and ticketing platform, and Event Pass Reader, a universal event check-in solution. Both are owned and operated by the studio.
Combining commercial discipline with hands-on product development, he focuses on practical technology that solves real problems, and on taking ventures from concept to launch.
we read every enquiry ourselves
What we run
These are not case studies from client work. They are our own products, and they are the clearest evidence of how we work.