After 20 Years Managing Dev Teams, I Built a Full SaaS Alone With AI

In September 2025, I sat down at a desk in Vancouver, opened a terminal, and started building ioZen. No dev team. No co-founder writing code beside me. No Slack channels with dozens of engineers debating architecture decisions. Just me, a clear vision, and AI. Four months later, we're launching the beta of a platform that replaces bureaucratic forms with intelligent conversations. It has AI-powered intake flows, visual workflow boards, a CRM, marketing attribution, embeddable widgets, and a document extraction engine. A well-funded startup with a full engineering team would have taken 12 to 18 months to ship this scope. I'm still processing what happened. I want to tell you the real story. The road to Vancouver I need to go back to explain how I got here. For over 20 years, I built technology companies in Latin America. I founded PATIOTuerca (Ecuador's largest automotive marketplace) and co-founded Vive1 (real estate), Evaluar.com (leading HR tech serving millions of users), and Taxo (