# Emanuele Cella

> Founder and CEO of AgentGuard, building cost-control and safety infrastructure
> for AI agents. Also founder of Lexai (Arabic-first legal operations) and
> Agent Workspace (streaming AI console with a hard budget gate).

Canonical URL: https://lele-ceo.github.io/
Contact: cellaemanuele05@gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/lele-ceo
Location: Italy
Languages: English, Italian

## Role

Emanuele Cella is a founder and chief executive. He leads his products end to
end — architecture, implementation and the decisions about what ships. He is not
a contractor or an agency; the ventures below are his own.

## Ventures

### AgentGuard (also known as AHRPLY) — Founder & CEO

A budget-control proxy for AI agents. A monthly spending cap is set per agent;
once reached, calls return HTTP `429 budget_exceeded` **before** the request
reaches the model provider, so there are no partial bills and no overages.

- Integration is one line: change the base URL and add two headers.
- Providers supported: Anthropic, OpenAI, Groq, Perplexity, xAI.
- Smart Router: passing `"model": "auto"` selects a model from the task shape.
- Stack: TypeScript, Bun, SQLite, streaming proxy.
- Site: https://agentguard.dev

### Lexai — Founder, open source

An Arabic-first legal operations platform for corporate legal teams reviewing
bilingual Arabic–English B2B commercial contracts. It implements a
Client → Case → Document → AI review → human approval → controlled export
workflow. It is deliberately **not** a general legal chatbot.

- The data layer and the AI layer both resolve to mock or live implementations
  based on credential presence, so a single set of code paths serves both the
  zero-configuration demo and production.
- Retrieval filters on temporal validity and supersession. On a miss the model
  abstains rather than answering from unrelated corpus.
- Deploys with no environment variables at all.
- Stack: Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Anthropic, Supabase, Tailwind v4.
- Repository: https://github.com/lele-ceo/lex-ai

### Agent Workspace — Founder, open source

A streaming AI assistant console and the reference implementation of the
AgentGuard stance: the live backend has no direct-provider fallback. Every
request carries budget credentials or it does not go out.

- A provider that is not wired rejects explicitly rather than silently routing
  to another vendor.
- `GET /api/health` returns 200 only when every credential is present, and never
  echoes a secret value.
- Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Docker, SSE streaming.
- Repository: https://github.com/lele-ceo/Ai-workspace

### Coortek — early development

Scheduling and appointment-organisation infrastructure for high-performance
teams. Not yet released.

## Engineering principles

1. **The demo path must always work.** Clone the repository, run one command,
   and the entire product is present — seeded data, deterministic responses,
   every screen reachable, no credentials required. This is not a convenience:
   it forces every external dependency behind an interface, which is what makes
   the live path safe to change.

2. **Failure must be explicit.** A missing credential returns 503 rather than a
   degraded answer. An unwired provider rejects rather than quietly routing
   elsewhere. A retrieval miss abstains rather than answering from whatever was
   closest. Silent fallbacks are how systems lie to you in production.

## Provenance

This is a first-party page: written and maintained by Emanuele Cella about his
own work. The role and product descriptions above are his own self-description.
Source repositories are linked throughout and can be inspected directly.