AI-NATIVE BUILDER · HOSPITALITY OPERATOR

Diego Leporini

Chef to Tech

26 restaurants opened. 20+ catering brands built. Still operating — now on AI I built myself.

Voice agents on live phone lines. Autonomous outreach. A custom CRM. 22 agents, 60 automated tasks — all built solo, all in production.

The Story

01

The Kitchen

Opened 26 restaurants and 20+ catering companies across Los Angeles, Orange County, Santa Barbara, and England. Executive chef, multi-unit operator, restaurant consultant. Ran every side of the business — back of house, front of house, and the P&L — leading teams of up to 30.

02

The Marketplace

Founded Food Concierge in 2017 as a corporate catering company and grew it into an AI-native catering marketplace with nine owned brands and its own delivery drivers. Founded AirKitchenz, a venture-backed (LAUNCH Fund) two-sided commercial kitchen marketplace.

03

The Build

Became an AI-native builder. Now ships production AI products for the hospitality industry — voice AI, payments, POS integrations, delivery dispatch — built solo, with live paying customers, and run day-to-day by my own multi-agent AI operating system.

What I've Built

ChefCall

Receptionists take messages. ChefCall takes money.

AI phone commerce for hospitality: answers the phone, takes orders and event bookings, and collects payment — plus quotes, invoicing, contracts with e-signature, kitchen display, and delivery dispatch. Square POS integration live. Live with paying clients.

chefcall.ai →

Food Concierge

AI-native corporate catering marketplace with nine owned brands and its own delivery fleet. Serving tech companies and corporate offices since 2017 — with an AI phone assistant live on the order line today.

foodconcierge.ai →

Jovina Health

Portuguese-language AI operating system for Brazilian medical practices. LGPD-compliant.

jovinahealth.co →

AirKitchenz

Two-sided marketplace for commercial kitchen rentals in Southern California, backed by LAUNCH Fund. Includes AirKitchenz Streetz, a storefront SaaS for food trucks and street vendors with integrated delivery.

airkitchenz.com →

Neurônios

A personal multi-agent AI operating system: 22 agents and 60 automated tasks running sales, research, and operations across 6 companies — with voice input and named AI agents handling outreach, social, and sales.

Virtual Brands & Client Sites

Multiple delivery-only and catering brands I own and operate — plus websites and ordering systems built for client restaurants.

Coming soon

A catering brand or client site will be featured here.

Coming soon

A catering brand or client site will be featured here.

Coming soon

A catering brand or client site will be featured here.

AI Systems in Production

Not demos. Systems running my businesses today.

  • Voice AI agents live on real phone lines — taking orders and payments daily
  • Custom-built CRM that replaced Salesforce — pipeline, accounts, and deals through close
  • Autonomous outreach agents with their own real email inboxes, running supply and demand sales
  • Commission-only sales rep portal with mini-CRM, Stripe webhook attribution, and automated promo-code tracking
  • Payments and invoicing infrastructure — quotes, deposits, e-signature contracts, and billing
  • Delivery dispatch infrastructure — fleet routing across owned, contracted, and on-demand drivers
  • Client websites and ordering systems shipped end-to-end for real restaurants

Voice AI · Telephony & SMS · Payments & billing · POS integrations · Delivery APIs · CRM & data infrastructure · Multi-agent orchestration

What I Do

Sell

Full-cycle B2B sales, from first call to close to renewal. Owner-to-owner credibility with the hospitality industry.

Operate

P&L ownership, multi-unit operations, teams of 30, playbooks and process. Two countries, two decades.

Build

AI-native product development from idea to live paying customers — solo, no engineering team. If it runs my businesses, I built it.

Operator Advisory

I also advise chefs, restaurateurs, and food-business owners — from concept to scale.

Catering & Virtual Brands

Stand up or scale catering, delivery-only brands, and shared-kitchen concepts — menu engineering, packaging, delivery economics, and the ops playbook.

Full-Service & Multi-Concept Restaurants

Concept development, build-out and pre-opening, BOH/FOH systems, hiring, and operating multiple brands under one roof.

Operator-First, Not Slide-Deck

Advice pressure-tested across 20+ opened restaurants, multiple catering brands, and live P&Ls — not theory from the sidelines.

AI-Powered Operations

The same operational intelligence, demand patterns, and growth signals that run Food Concierge.ai applied to your business.

Selected for

Founder University (LAUNCH)
FoundersBoost 2025
Anthropic Academy (2026)

Backed by

LAUNCH Fund & angels

Languages

English · Portuguese · Spanish · Italian

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