# Cisco Caceres

> Navy veteran. 45 years in software. 30M concurrent connections. 8+ patents. Technology advisory and technical due diligence with published flat-fee pricing.

Cisco Caceres is an independent technology advisor based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Background spans US Navy service aboard the USS Missouri during Desert Shield and Desert Storm, BBS operation in the 1980s, MSNBC's early-web Workbench CMS in the mid-1990s, ZettaZing's ECHO push platform (30M concurrent connections), and government voice AI deployments for the US Coast Guard and DHS. Currently operating Abundera, a federated product family of 20+ live surfaces built solo and funded.

## Services

Three published flat-fee engagements. Selective: a small number per quarter.

- **Reality Check — $15,000 fixed.** 90-minute deep-dive on a specific decision, plus an 8 to 12 page written assessment delivered within 48 hours. The entry point for everything else, and often the whole engagement.
- **Engagement — from $50,000.** Architecture review, voice AI / ASR system review, or scoped technical rescue. Five to ten business days, fixed scope and fixed price, scoped during the Reality Check. Typical range $50k to $150k.
- **Technical Due Diligence — from $75,000.** Pre-acquisition or pre-investment technical review. Defensible written report for investment committees, boards, or LPs. Typical range $75k to $250k depending on target size and depth.

What is not on the menu: junior-rate code work, change-management engagements packaged as "digital transformation," or anything where the deliverable is a slide deck instead of working code or a written technical opinion.

## Key sections

- **The Short Version** — Toggled a first program into an Altair via front-panel switches in the late 1970s. Ran BBSs in the 1980s when "online" meant dialing in at 300 baud. Two full T1 lines into the house in the 1990s, running servers before "the cloud" existed. Eight-megabit point-to-point microwave link in the 2000s feeding a 60-server in-basement data center.
- **Operating Principles** — Physics over feelings. Code is a liability. Scar tissue over certifications. Skepticism is a service. Margins over architecture. History repeats.
- **Notable Scars** — ZettaZing / ECHO push platform: 30M concurrent connections, simulated via 3,000 AWS instances, designed to scale to billions. Voice AI / DHS: speech recognition deployed for the US Coast Guard in environments where standard ASR fails. AMBIE: acoustic intelligence maintaining 90 to 95 percent accuracy where commercial systems drop to 14 to 40 percent. Abundera: federated platform of 20+ production surfaces under one identity hub, built solo and funded. MSNBC / Workbench: in-house CMS before "CMS" was a term, mid-1990s.
- **Currently Operating** — Abundera (founder and CTO, 2026 to present). Federated platform of 20+ production surfaces including a QR safety family (qr.abundera.ai, check.qr.abundera.ai, pro.qr.abundera.ai), an e-signature ceremony with content-bound integrity (sign.abundera.ai), a financial-advocacy core (abundera.ai), and fourteen vertical advocacy sites. Cloudflare edge, passkey-only, Plaid-connected.
- **From the Field Manual** — Long-form technical writing lives at roamingpigs.com/field-manual/. Independent technical publication edited and published by Cisco Caceres. 170+ articles. Free. RSS and a Sunday digest.

## Canonical links

- Home: https://ciscocaceres.com/
- Services: https://ciscocaceres.com/services/
- Work: https://ciscocaceres.com/work/
- Downloads: https://ciscocaceres.com/downloads/
- Contact: https://ciscocaceres.com/contact/
- Technical Due Diligence Checklist (free PDF): https://ciscocaceres.com/downloads/technical-due-diligence-checklist/
- Sitemap: https://ciscocaceres.com/sitemap.xml
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cisco801/
- Field Manual (long-form writing): https://roamingpigs.com/field-manual/

Last reviewed: 2026-05-23