About Jorge Leal Portela

I have extensive experience across product, engineering, and strategy roles, helping organizations design systems that can scale both technically and operationally. I’ve worked at the intersection of technology, finance, and business execution, shaping solutions that must operate reliably under real-world constraints.

Earlier in my career, I earned the CFA® designation, which reflects my strong analytical background and my approach to modeling systems: clarity, structure, and explicit assumptions. These principles heavily influence the State-Based Collaboration Framework.

Over time, I became increasingly focused on the design of collaborative workflows: processes where many people interact with the same state, often asynchronously, often with imperfect information, and always under pressure to maintain consistency, correctness, and transparency.

This experience led me to develop a structured way of thinking about how shared state evolves, how transitions occur, and how intent is captured — eventually forming the basis for this framework.

Teams building collaborative systems face recurring problems: inconsistent state transitions, scattered rules, unclear responsibilities, race conditions, and behaviors that are hard to predict or test.

I repeatedly saw teams reinventing solutions — often with brittle, ad-hoc logic. Yet the underlying problems were always the same: multiple actors, shared state, partial information, and a need for deterministic outcomes.

I created the State-Based Collaboration Framework to provide a coherent vocabulary and a structured way to reason about these systems. The framework breaks collaboration into eight foundational components, making it easier to design, review, and evolve complex workflows.

This site is where I document those patterns — clearly, practically, and without superficial “real-time” hype.