DIGITALNATIVE.PT
Digital Ventures · Applied R&D · Human Technology
We build and operate digital projects in commerce, publishing, science, health and human behaviour. Some are already on the market. Others are in research and development. All of them evolve through the same cycle: research, build, validate, operate, learn.
In operation
Real projects, in the market, today.
Four projects run continuously. Each one solves a concrete problem — and each one feeds the company’s research agenda.
PECASAUTO.PT
Problem: finding compatible used parts in a fragmented market, with hard-to-verify references and fitment.
Value: a European supplier network and an assisted part-request workflow; component reuse at real scale.
BYBLOS NATIVE
Problem: turning research into quality editorial products and digital resources.
Value: a publishing platform with catalogue, digital production and online store.
SCIENTIA HUMANAE
Problem: giving emerging researchers an open-access journal with rigorous management.
Value: an OJS-powered journal with submissions, peer review and an editorial team.
IDEG.PT
Problem: knowledge on ageing and services scattered across reports and papers.
Value: a knowledge platform with indexed scientific publications and service analysis.
Research & development
What we’re building next.
R&D projects are presented with the same rigour as operating ones: what exists today, what is in development, the next challenge.
Cognitive Assessment Platform
Problem: a final score doesn’t tell the whole story of a performance.
Value: digital cognitive assessment with time-based data, intra-individual variability and traceability. Functional software is not a validated instrument — scientific validation is a declared future step.
Assisted Living AI Modules
Problem: small daily tasks get harder with age — and surveillance is not the answer.
Value: combinable AI modules for routines, communication and caregiver support, privacy by design. Not a medical system, not a diagnostic tool.
Human Cybersecurity
Problem: security also fails through trust, urgency, fatigue and human error.
Value: the psychology of cybersecurity applied to prevention, training and experimental evaluation.
Digital Health & Ageing
Problem: digitising services does not guarantee autonomy or adherence.
Value: autonomy, quality of life, digital exclusion and the risks of over-monitoring.
AI-assisted scientific publishing
Problem: independent publishing has bottlenecks in formatting, triage and review.
Value: AI support for authors, editors and reviewers at Scientia Humanae — AI assists, editorial decisions stay human.
Method
One portfolio, different stages.
Mature projects don’t stop researching — they research with real-world data.
Real operation, with users and service responsibility.
Operating and scaling: operation feeds research and vice versa.
In development and validation, with declared limits.
Idea in definition and prototyping, with no public promises.
Every project state is always visible. Maturity is not the absence of research: it is research with added responsibility.
Cycle
Research · Build · Validate · Operate · Learn
1 · Research
We start from the problem and the literature, not from available technology. The question defines the project.
2 · Build
Software and content with versions, documentation and traceability.
3 · Validate
We test against pre-defined criteria, with a real possibility of failure. Development is not validation.
4 · Operate
We launch, measure and maintain. An operating project is a project with real users.
5 · Learn — every project feeds the next R&D agenda. The cycle restarts with more data and more demand.
Case
PecasAuto.pt — circular economy with real operation.
PecasAuto.pt reuses car, truck and tractor parts: it extends component lifecycles, reduces waste and lowers the need to manufacture new parts. The operation is real — an online store, a European supplier network, assisted requests.
The R&D agenda is underway: automatic reference normalisation, request–vehicle–part matching, AI-assisted identification from text and photos, and automated sourcing. None of these capabilities is presented as implemented.
Case
Byblos Native and Scientia Humanae — publishing with method.
Byblos Native is the company’s editorial infrastructure: catalogue, editing, publishing and online sales. Scientia Humanae is its associated open-access journal — submissions, peer review and an editorial team on an OJS platform.
In R&D: AI-assisted editorial workflows, manuscript normalisation, metadata and interoperability with scientific systems — always with human editorial decisions.
Human technology
Human technology.
Cognition
Assessing processes, not just scores: how a response builds over time.
Ageing
Autonomy, quality of life and quality of support services.
Cybersecurity
The human factor: trust, urgency, fatigue, situational error.
Digital health
Adherence and access without digital exclusion, without over-monitoring.
Service quality
Evaluation with criteria: structure, process, outcomes, experience.
Artificial intelligence
AI as verifiable, auditable support — never as an opaque decision-maker.
Knowledge
Knowledge that circulates.
IDEG publishes gerontology research; Scientia Humanae publishes open science; video content transfers knowledge to services, families and students. Publishing is part of the method — clear methods, declared limitations, verifiable record.
Who is behind
José Ignacio Martín — Founder / Lead
José Ignacio Martín holds a degree in Psychology (University of Salamanca) and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS, University of Porto). He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, and a researcher at CINTESIS.
His research focuses on gerontology and ageing — dementia, informal caregivers, quality of life — and on the evaluation and quality of social and health services. He founded DIGITALNATIVE.PT to connect research, technology and real-world operation: digital projects that keep evolving through applied R&D.
to be added — a real photograph provided by the founder (never AI-generated)
Collaboration
Let’s collaborate.
We look for partnerships with companies, universities and organisations in four areas: business digital projects, applied R&D, scientific research and publishing. Collaboration starts with a clear question and a real validation context.
Contact: geral@digitalnative.pt · +351 253 092 196