COSIMO TAIUTI ai software engineer - florence, tuscany I studied Engineering and Economics at the University of Florence, but I decided to change my career path and started coding in May 2023. currently founding engineer at MattoBoard (https://mattoboard.com), a startup that is redefining the interior design world. email: cosimo.taiuti@gmail.com github: https://github.com/cosimtaiuz x: https://x.com/cosimo_taiuti linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cosimotaiuti/ coding playlists: https://clear-dietician-b7d.notion.site/vibe-coding-playlists-mixes?pvs=4 PROJECTS turno — https://turno.info Turno streamlines appointment booking and management for small and medium businesses by integrating WhatsApp and voice call AI agents. Clients can book, reschedule or cancel appointments through WhatsApp or voice calls, while businesses can manage their schedule and receive notifications, saving over 30 work hours per month. demo: https://x.com/ElevenLabs/status/1871583895910768903 hyperposta — https://www.hyperposta.com/ hyperposta is an AI-powered web email client that even your dad would love. It talks to your mailbox over plain IMAP and SMTP rather than any provider's API, so it works with any account rather than only the two or three that ship an official SDK. Underneath it does cross-provider folder discovery, batched UID fetching, and RFC822 MIME construction for sent mail. The mailbox is then exposed to OpenAI function-calling agents, so you can ask it to search your mail, read a thread back to you, or draft a reply. demo: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7320801147756142593/ Zurney Zurney is my first ever experience with the startup world. I decided to create a mobile app that assists tourists along every step of the journey: literally jump on a flight and Zurney will take care of the rest. The idea was also to involve high-tech features like AI and 3D to elevate the user experience. What I keep from this project is the huge amount of experience and knowledge about the startup world, and the ability to learn and adapt quickly. Indo Indo is a project my brother and I made in about a weekend. We wanted to create something cool and funny using GenAI, so we thought about a daily game like Wordle, but on Indo you have to guess the prompt used to generate the image you see. It was a fun challenge and a great learning curve. Your AlterEgo Your AlterEgo is a fun project I created to show how your name might sound if you were from another country, using AI to generate translated names. It started as a playful idea when my brother and I were joking about how American names sound with an Italian twist. Inspired by that, I built it in just two hours. NEWS June 2025 — I am a founding engineer at MattoBoard (https://mattoboard.com)! Happy to be part of this ambitious project! We are on the path to redefine the interior design world. March 7, 2025 — I attended ODF24 program in SF! I attended the ODF24 (https://x.com/joinodf) program in San Francisco, a program for founders and engineers eager to connect and create ambitious projects. I met countless amazing people and learned a lot. It was extremely inspiring! January 26, 2025 — I won the Mistral AI Game Jam Hackathon! I had the pleasure of participating in the Game Jam Hackathon organized by Mistral AI, Entrepreneur First, ElevenLabs and more, which took place in Paris. It was the first hackathon I participated in, and my first win — what a great experience (https://x.com/sophiamyang/status/1883819770719731843)! You can play our game here (https://mistral-ai-game-jam-texttosurvive.hf.space). January 22, 2025 — Turno voice agent can place clients on hold, ask for instructions, and then return to the call. This new feature provides the functionality of a switchboard and a voice agent, effectively acting as a real secretary. See it in action here (https://x.com/cosimo_taiuti/status/1882103432057635303). December 4, 2024 — New AI voice call agent for Turno Turno now has a new AI voice call agent, leveraging the latest updates from ElevenLabs (https://elevenlabs.io). See it in action here (https://x.com/cosimo_taiuti/status/1864373619859542018). September 9, 2024 — Turno has its first customer I mark today as the day Turno started to be used by a real customer. I am very proud of this: it is the first project completely built by me from scratch, and the chance to test it on the ground is amazing. See our first customer here (http://agenziamanta.it/). August 15, 2024 — My interview about Zurney on the Italian journal "La Nazione" I had the pleasure of being interviewed by the Italian journal "La Nazione" about Zurney. You can read the article here (https://www.lanazione.it/empoli/cronaca/unapp-per-attrarre-i-turisti-stranieri-intelligenza-artificiale-e-visite-in-3d-cosi-promuovo-le-nostre-bellezze-ebba2f7f). My first article in a national newspaper! BOOKS Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J. E. Gordon, 2003 — Engineering / Physics — Structural mechanics https://www.amazon.com/dp/0306812835 Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein, 2021 — Psychology — Decision making https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LNYM39M Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned [north star] by Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman, 2015 — Creativity — Innovation https://www.amazon.it/dp/3319155237 Everything is Negotiable [north star] by Gavin Kennedy, 2008 — Negotiation https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DO8RMRO Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, 2021 — Psychology — Marketing https://www.amazon.com/dp/006124189X Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William Ury, 2011 — Negotiation https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143115554 The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor [north star] by Howard S. Marks, 2011 — Investing — Understanding of risk https://www.amazon.com/dp/006230235X The Hard Thing About Hard Things [north star] by Ben Horowitz, 2014 — Entrepreneurship — Handling problems https://www.amazon.com/dp/0857194235