Active · Founder
Barbarians Inc
Technology consulting studio for startups. Founded 2021. Triggers a note on articles about consulting practice, technical due diligence, or startup architecture.
The Field Manual’s editor, Cisco Caceres, has founded and operates several companies. Articles touching any of these — or their direct competitors and partners — carry an explicit disclosure note at the top of the article. This page is the registry of everything that gets flagged.
Current ventures
Active · Founder
AMBIE
Acoustic intelligence ASR. Founded 2025. Triggers a note on articles about speech recognition, voice AI, or audio infrastructure.
Active · Founder
Abundera family
abundera.ai (hub), qr.abundera.ai (free QR generator), pro.qr.abundera.ai (paid dashboard), check.qr.abundera.ai (safety scanner), sign.abundera.ai (e-signature), tax.abundera.ai, and sibling sites. Triggers a note on articles about QR codes, e-signature, payment QR, or redirect-chain security.
Active · Co-owner
Damn Good Pepper
Small-batch dry pepper blend business co-owned since 2014. Out of scope for this publication; listed for completeness.
Publisher
RoamingPigs Inc
The Delaware C Corporation that publishes the Field Manual.
Prior ventures and roles
Prior · Policy
Government voice AI work
Federal agency engagements 2021–2024. Articles touching government voice AI projects keep the framing generic by policy.
2020–2023
FortifID
Chief software architect.
2018–2021
VoiceMe.AI
Co-founder and CTO.
2017–2018
SmartEar
CTO.
2014–2017
ZettaZing
CTO. ECHO push-notification platform.
1998–2014
Einstrong / SmartChannels
CTO.
1996–2004
Core Logic Software
CEO and CTO. Consulting and dot-com-era products.
1995–1998
MSNBC
Software development engineer. Built the Workbench CMS.
1994–1995
Spry, Inc
QA engineer. “Internet in a Box” consumer product.
1993
Aldus Corporation
Test engineer. PageMaker.
1992
Sierra Online
Test engineer. Bright Star.
1990–1992
US Navy
Navy Veteran, USS Missouri BB-63. Desert Shield / Storm, decommissioning crew.
Advisory and board roles
Currently none active. When taken on, advisory roles are listed here before any related coverage.
Patents
The editor holds patents in dynamic configuration of context-sensitive sites (US 20020174201, 2002), data encryption methods (US 13/638,570, 2011), walkie-talkie network analytics (17/153,908, 2021), and adaptive environment-aware speech recognition (provisional, 2024). Articles touching these techniques use the disclosure framing.
Advertising and sponsorship
The Field Manual does not accept advertising. The Sunday digest does not include sponsor sections. If this changes, it will be disclosed here first, with a clear separation between sponsored and editorial content.
Compensated reviews
No product reviews on the publication are sponsored or paid for by the vendor. Vendors that provide review units, briefings, or early access are noted in the article’s sources panel. Vendor-supplied units do not buy favorable coverage.
How to report a conflict we missed
If you spot an article that should have a disclosure note and doesn’t, email editor@roamingpigs.com. Confirmed misses are corrected within 24 hours and the disclosure is added at the top of the article.