Bernardo Campelo
Founder and Head of Innovation at PrepVia
The original story
PrepVia was born from a real, operational problem. Before serving other sellers, it existed inside Fastical, the wholesale company Bernardo built in the United States. Fastical shipped up to 32,000 units a month to various prep centers, and through that volume Bernardo discovered an uncomfortable truth: the biggest bottleneck was not suppliers, not marketplaces, and not the products. It was the prep center.
Delays, mistakes, inconsistent standards, zero visibility, outdated processes, and a lack of operational discipline created a ceiling Fastical could not break. The growth issue wasn't theoretical. It was measurable, repetitive, and completely unnecessary.
Once Bernardo understood every variable of inbound flow, every packaging detail, every avoidable human error, and every step that could be automated, it became clear he had built something bigger than an internal workflow. He had built a model.
And that model became PrepVia.
PrepVia's mission
Initial Mission
No seller should face the same bottlenecks that once slowed Fastical.
Advanced Mission
Build an operation precise and technical enough that sellers can check every step in the app.
Forbes Business Council
Today Bernardo is a Forbes Business Council E-Commerce Leader. His work centers on innovation, industrial automation, performance execution, and turning a chaotic part of e-commerce logistics into a measurable, predictable, scalable system.
Engineering Excellence
Bernardo personally engineered robotic systems, Document AI pipelines, industrial workflows, sensors, and PrepVia's own warehouse software. Every conveyor, every automation module, and every KPI inside PrepVia comes from real experience shipping tens of thousands of units and learning exactly where logistics wastes time and money.
PrepVia wasn't born from theory, textbooks, or consulting frameworks. It was born from daily friction, from operational chaos, and from problems that nearly stalled Fastical, problems Bernardo learned to eliminate with engineering, automation, and disciplined operational structure.
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Amazon SPN Certified
Today, PrepVia is Amazon SPN Certified for FBA Preparation. It is the model that began at Fastical, now open to every seller: clients send, track and ship their inventory in the PrepVia app, and Why PrepVia shows how the operation works.
Forbes Business Council columns and expert panels
Columns by Bernardo and expert panels he contributed to as Forbes Business Council E-Commerce Leader. His columns also run in Japanese on Forbes JAPAN.
- Column · January 7, 2026How AI Can Turn Solo Founders Into Full Teams
- Column · January 9, 2026How Automation Is Redefining Survival For Mid-Sized Logistics
- Expert panel · January 12, 202619 Strategies To Balance Local Business Growth And Global Consistency
- Expert panel · March 12, 2026How To Lead Confidently While Catching Up On Tech
- Column · March 16, 2026Why Operational Infrastructure Is The Real Growth Limit In E-Commerce
- Column · March 20, 2026Adaptability Is The New Measure Of Business Health
Logistics should obey logic. PrepVia exists to prove it.
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