HARDMENT · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TRAINING
At hardMent, we create practical training for companies, executives and professionals who want to understand AI, apply it to real challenges and make informed decisions. Our books and free resources complement that learning.
New book: IAHPT ↗
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TRAINING
We develop programs for companies and professionals who need to understand AI, apply it to their work and assess the results—in leadership, knowledge work and software development.
STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP
Understand how large language models work, what agents can do and where processes can be automated. Assess opportunities, limitations and human oversight.
For: executives and business leaders.
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KNOWLEDGE AND CREATION
Organize your sources in a living knowledge base. Connect ideas, ask questions with context, and create books, essays or articles you can verify against your documents.
For: content creators and executives.
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ENGINEERING AND CONTROL
Turn a need into specifications and acceptance criteria. Guide development agents and validate software with tests and human review.
For: executives and technical professionals.
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OUR BOOKS
hardMent’s books complement its training. IAHPT opens the catalogue with a guide to building self-organising teams; SecondBrain and SDD are upcoming titles in preparation.
Fifteen years of teaching executives, brought together in 75 laws, cases and exercises. Learn to share decisions, improve how work flows and use AI with judgement so a self-organising team can deliver value without relying on one person.
For people already leading teams, and those preparing to take on more responsibility.
Buy the English edition on Leanpub ↗ · PDF, EPUB and audiobook · Leanpub’s 60-day refund guarantee.
THE NAME IS A STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES
hardMent comes from hardiment:
moving forward boldly.
We live in a time when artificial intelligence makes access to information remarkably easy. Truly understanding it is still hard.
We care about that hard part: the effort to understand, experiment, make mistakes, debate and build our own knowledge.
At hardMent, we learn to use AI and methodologies as means to solve problems, build teams and grow professionally. We are also a place for curious people who want to share what they learn and build lasting relationships.
Learn deeply.
Think boldly.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND HARDMENT
Technology leadership, entrepreneurship and university teaching. Two complementary career paths connecting what you learn with your organisation’s challenges.
PRESIDENT
Business, engineering and executive education.
He founded and led Autentia for more than 21 years, a software engineering company that grew to more than 120 professionals and joined Izertis in 2023. His career connects software architecture, team leadership, business development and digital transformation.
He teaches Executive programs at IE Business School and entrepreneurship in the Cybersecurity Master’s program at CEU San Pablo. He completed UTAMED’s Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence; his applied project developed Solap, combining language processing, knowledge graphs and language models to analyse university programs.
Creator of AdictosAlTrabajo.com, author of four books and more than 600 technical articles. He wrote IAHPT, hardMent’s first book, drawing together 15 years of teaching executives about methodologies and self-organising high-performance teams. He also writes about specification-driven software development.
Connecting business decisions with engineering: understanding AI, guiding agents and building software against verifiable criteria.
DIRECTOR
Entrepreneurship, product and learning.
Entrepreneur, teacher and communicator. He graduated in Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (LEINN) from Mondragon Unibertsitatea and TEAMLABS/. He founded and led his own company and launched more than 30 business initiatives across different sectors.
At Grupo Ruiz, he led product and technology projects, coordinating teams and connecting business strategy with digital transformation. He teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Universidad Villanueva and contributes as an expert to programs at CEU San Pablo and UC3M.
He created JuegoConSentido, where he talks with professionals and shares lessons with Roberto. He teaches masterclasses on knowledge systems and is writing SecondBrain, about using what you already know to develop new ideas and content.
Turning curiosity into practice: organizing knowledge, connecting ideas and applying them to projects, publications and useful decisions.
FREE KNOWLEDGE
MASTERCLASS · FROM CONCEPT TO PRACTICE
SECONDBRAIN · IVÁN CARRILLO
A session about persistent memory and how it relates to a second brain.
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SDD · ROBERTO CANALES
Roberto introduces specification-driven software development.
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SECONDBRAIN · IVÁN CARRILLO
Iván’s approach to building a second brain with artificial intelligence.
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SECONDBRAIN · IVÁN CARRILLO
A masterclass on Zettelkasten and building a knowledge network.
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THE PODCAST · EVERY WEEK
Roberto and Iván share the company’s progress, what they test and what they learn. Episode 064: a second brain and flying over the Pyrenees with Spain’s champion.
HARDMENTUNI
Coming soonWe are preparing our online learning platform: a place to explore artificial intelligence and put what you learn into practice.
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