Founder & CEO
Nicolas Hawat is the Founder and CEO of Start Me Up AI, bringing over a decade of experience in developing intelligent software solutions, particularly in the financial sector for trading software used by international banks and trading desks. He leads SMUAI's mission to deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions that save startups 6-12 months of development time.
In 2023, while experimenting with generative AI, Nicolas saw its potential to make software development faster and more reliable. He built an internal AI developer that became the foundation of Byblos AI's tech agents.
That internal AI developer is the AI Co-CTO, designed to transform how development teams build, test, and ship software.
At Start Me Up AI, Nicolas leads the mission to empower startups and businesses withreliable, scalable, and cost-effective software solutions. That mission now runs throughByblos AI, an AI co-founder platform covering product, brand, campaigns, technical planning, and codebase delivery. It lets startups avoid settling for modest solutions that are hard to scale, and instead get enterprise quality at startup-friendly prices.
Separate standards compliance, vendor compatibility, workflow quality, and runtime evidence with a ten-point Agent Skills audit designed for real engineering repositories.
Skill selection begins with metadata, not the hidden body. Learn the documented progressive-disclosure model and the observable evaluation method we use to improve routing.
The SKILL.md content format is portable, but discovery paths and runtime behavior differ. Use this vendor matrix and adapter strategy to avoid false one-setup claims.
Learn how Copilot, Codex, and Claude load repository instructions, and how we keep one source of truth while preserving tool-specific discovery paths.
Personas and skills are not interchangeable. Learn the separation we use between role, persistent repository rules, and task procedures—and where it is convention rather than standard.
Learn what the Agent Skills standard actually requires, what agents see during discovery, and the authoring practices we use to make workflows clear, safe, and testable.
A clean .github/ directory is the difference between agents that follow your standards and agents that guess. Here is the layout for skills, agents, and instructions — and the rules that keep each in its lane.
Agent Skills are reusable, folder-based capabilities that AI coding agents load on demand. Learn what the open SKILL.md standard is, how it works, and why it beats copy-pasting prompts across GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Claude.
We're thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of the AI Co-CTO, our flagship product within the ByblosAI Platform. Designed to transform how development teams build, test, and ship software.
In 2026, agentic development has reset the bar for external developers. Expect clean code, automated tests, production-grade documentation, and repo-specific AI agents that make future maintenance faster, safer, and less dependent on the original vendor.
Interested in discussing how AI can accelerate your startup's development?
Contact Nicolas