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Alejandro Morales

COO & Co-founder of STOA, the tech and software team for small businesses that don't have one.

What I talk about: what small businesses can do when their software says no, how to think about their operations as one system, and where AI actually pays off.

Alejandro Morales, COO & Co-founder of STOADurham, NC · English and Spanish

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Topics your audience will use

  1. Your software won't do the one thing you need. Now what?

    Why most owner-led businesses hit the same wall, and how to build around it without replacing anything.

  2. What vendor lock-in costs a small business.

    Contracts, closed data and API limits, from the buyer's side. STOA sells no software, so it has no stake in the answer.

  3. AI agents that do real work, not demos.

    What an agent can do with a business's own records, what it should never touch, and how an owner sets the guardrails.

  4. Build or buy, when you have no tech team.

    How an owner decides what to build, what to buy, and when to leave it alone.

  5. Using AI on your own business data.

    What an owner can build on their own, and where it stops.

  6. What a fractional CTO actually does for a small business.

    Who makes the technology calls when there is no tech team, and what changes once someone does it with you.

Short bio

About Alejandro

Alejandro Morales is the COO & Co-founder of STOA, based in Durham, NC. STOA is the tech and software team for small businesses that don't have one. It builds the piece a business's main software can't do, next to the software it already runs. It also acts as a fractional CTO for businesses that need a technology lead without a full-time hire.

He works business first: what the operation needs comes before any tool, AI included. He builds AI into the systems small businesses already run, and says plainly where it pays off and where it does not.

Alejandro leads the XPX Triangle chapter as President, chairs public relations for Rotary Capital City, and coaches in UNC's ECON 125 program. He was born in Venezuela, lived in Spain, and speaks English and Spanish.

Why book Alejandro

  • Plain talk

    No jargon. Your audience does not need to be technical.

  • Useful on the spot

    Every topic ends with something a listener can do this week.

  • Easy to work with

    Prepared, on time, and happy to promote the episode.

  • Two languages

    Available for English and Spanish shows.

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STOA is the tech and software team for small businesses that don't have one.