# Uriel Papa

> urielpapa.com is where Uriel Papa, a technical founder from Metro Manila, shares the lessons from founding a company and building with technology: how AI and large language models really work, the automations behind real projects, how technology affects business, the economy and society, how search is evolving with SEO, GEO and AEO, what's new in tech stacks, the basics of marketing, and the journey of a founder. It also carries takes on the latest tech news and notes from seminars and trainings. It's written for anyone interested in the same things.

Uriel Papa is a technical founder in Metro Manila, Philippines. Every post also has a plain Markdown copy at its own URL plus .md.

## About

- [About Uriel Papa](https://urielpapa.com/about): background, timeline and profiles
- [Projects](https://urielpapa.com/projects): systems built, described as case studies
- [Contact](https://urielpapa.com/contact): work@urielpapa.com
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/uriel-papa-vitese01/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/Edamuza)
- [X](https://x.com/its_uriel26)
- [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@its_uriel26)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/itsuriel26)

## Topics

- [AI, in Depth](https://urielpapa.com/topics/ai): How large language models work, what tokens and context windows are, and the tools built around them.
- [Automation](https://urielpapa.com/topics/automation): n8n workflows, AI chatbots and agent pipelines, with honest pros, cons and running costs.
- [Technology and Business](https://urielpapa.com/topics/tech-and-business): How AI and technology change work, the economy and society, with ERP and CRM as examples.
- [SEO, GEO and AEO](https://urielpapa.com/topics/seo-geo-aeo): How search is evolving, with GEO and AEO fundamentals, semantic SEO and technical SEO.
- [Tech Stacks](https://urielpapa.com/topics/tech-stacks): Frameworks, databases, testing and hosting, with notes from the systems I have built.
- [Marketing](https://urielpapa.com/topics/marketing): Marketing basics, organic content and paid ads, from first-hand campaigns.
- [The Founder's Journey](https://urielpapa.com/topics/founder-journey): Founding an agency at 21, leading a team, and what closing it taught me.

## Latest posts

- [Philippine SME Business Expo: What I Learned About Tech Adoption](https://urielpapa.com/events/philippine-sme-business-expo-technology-adoption): Notes from the Philippine SME Business Expo, which I attended in November 2025 and May 2026, on how small businesses in the Philippines adopt technology.
- [Astro 7 Is Out: What It Means for Business Content Sites](https://urielpapa.com/news/astro-7-content-sites): Astro 7 is out. What changed for content sites like blogs and docs, why it matters for speed and search, and what I noticed building this site on Astro 7.
- [How Closing My Agency Changed Me as a Founder](https://urielpapa.com/blog/closing-my-agency): I founded VITE SEO Digital Advertising at 21 while still in college and led it to a team of up to 22. This is what closing it changed for me as a founder.
- [Organic Content vs Paid Ads: What I Learned Doing Both](https://urielpapa.com/blog/organic-content-vs-paid-ads): Organic content builds reach slowly and keeps working, while paid ads buy reach right away. How they differ in cost, speed and effort, and when to use each.
- [GEO and AEO Fundamentals: What Everyone Should Know About AI Search](https://urielpapa.com/blog/geo-and-aeo-fundamentals): GEO and AEO explained in plain words, how AI search finds and cites websites, what still matters from SEO, and how this site is set up for AI answers.
- [How I Built an AI Chatbot for Messenger and Instagram with n8n](https://urielpapa.com/blog/n8n-messenger-instagram-chatbot): A step-by-step guide to an n8n and OpenRouter chatbot for Facebook Messenger and Instagram that answers inquiries, books calls and logs leads, plus costs.
- [What Is Tokenization, and Why Does It Decide What AI Costs?](https://urielpapa.com/blog/what-is-tokenization): Tokenization is how a language model splits text into tokens. Here is how it works, why models limit and charge by tokens, and how to estimate AI costs.
- [Laravel vs Next.js: What I Learned Using Both in One System](https://urielpapa.com/blog/laravel-vs-nextjs): Laravel or Next.js? A side-by-side on what each is good at, hosting and upkeep, plus why our ERP used Laravel for the API and Next.js for the interface.

## Latest notes

- [This Site Ships No JavaScript by Default](https://urielpapa.com/notes/this-site-ships-no-javascript-by-default): How urielpapa.com is built with Astro static pages, small islands of JavaScript only where needed, Tailwind CSS and Keystatic as a git-based CMS.

## Optional

- [RSS feed](https://urielpapa.com/rss.xml)
- [Sitemap](https://urielpapa.com/sitemap-index.xml)