AI consulting company in Uruguay

Most AI consulting ends with a slide deck. Ours ends with a system in production. Estela is a small AI engineering firm in Montevideo: we find the tasks where AI pays for itself, build the agents and integrations that do them, and run the infrastructure underneath. Same time zone as the US East Coast, English and Spanish.

What we do

• AI readiness assessmentWe look at how your team works today and point to the tasks an agent or model can take, with the cost and risk of each.
• Model and vendor selectionOpenAI, Anthropic, Google or open-weight models on your own hardware: we compare them on your data, not on benchmarks.
• Agents and automationPipelines that read, classify, extract and draft from your documents and systems, with a person checking what matters.
• Assistant integrationsChatGPT and Claude plugins and MCP servers that connect the assistant your team already uses to your own systems.
• Private AISelf-hosted models and GPU servers for data that can’t go to a third-party API.
• Operation and supportMonitoring, updates and backups after launch. We answer for the system once it is live.

Who we work with

• Law firmsCase files, contracts and research, where confidentiality decides the architecture.
• Cultural institutionsArchives, catalogues and public-facing information.
• Film and production companiesMedia pipelines, storage and the infrastructure behind them.
• Companies in the US and EuropeNearshore AI engineering from Uruguay: overlapping hours, senior people, no hand-off to a junior team.

How a project runs

• 1. AssessmentA short first phase. You get a short list of tasks worth automating, what each needs, and what it would cost to run.
• 2. PilotWe build the first one on a real slice of your data and measure it against the way it is done today.
• 3. ProductionIf the pilot earns it, we deploy it on your infrastructure or ours, with access control and logs.
• 4. OperationWe keep it running and improve it as models change. Nearly a decade of IT operations is the part people don’t see.

Questions

What does an AI consultant do?

Finds where AI saves time or money in your business, picks the right models and vendors, and plans how to put them into daily work safely. At Estela the same team then builds and runs it.

Do you only advise, or also build?

Both. We are engineers first; advice that we can’t build ourselves is advice we don’t give.

Do you work with companies outside Uruguay?

Yes. We work in English and Spanish, remotely, in US-friendly hours, with clients in Uruguay, Latin America, the US and Europe.

Is our data safe with AI?

It depends on where it goes. When data can’t leave your company, we run the models on hardware you control. When it can, we choose providers whose terms fit your obligations.

How small a company can work with you?

Any size. For a ten-person firm, one automated task can free hours every week.