To start a business
Launch Session
Land your idea and launch on solid ground.
- Intensive one-on-one session
- Business model and launch roadmap
- Legal formalization checklist (with allied law firm)
AI & Business Consulting · Costa Rica
Your business brings in revenue, but everything depends on you: information lives on paper, in WhatsApp and in the team’s memory. Transforma turns that operation into an organized, measurable company that can grow — adding value to your processes, with strategy, and by implementing AI tools.
Packages & pricing
Four ways to work together, depending on where your business is today. Designed for law firms, clinics, private practices, academies, agencies and any business that earns well but still depends on its owner. Fixed prices and defined timelines from day one.
To start a business
Land your idea and launch on solid ground.
To know where you stand
A complete X-ray of your business using international audit methodology.
To get organized and grow
Your business’s operating system, built and implemented.
To stay on course
Ongoing management support with visible results every month.
For teams that want to use AI wisely
Train your team to use artificial intelligence with judgment, safety and responsibility — without fear and without ethical shortcuts.
Custom projects in internal controls, SOX readiness and process documentation for subsidiaries, shared-services centers and companies heading toward investment or acquisition. Quoted by scope. Service available in Spanish and English.
Launch Session
We understand your idea or your operation as it is today, without filters or assumptions. Everything starts with an honest conversation.
See the package →The systems we use to structure your business
Who leads Transforma
Brandon Agüero
Founder & Principal Consultant — Risk, Compliance & AI
Risk, compliance and AI executive with over a decade of experience in SOX auditing, internal controls and risk management at global companies such as Bridgestone, HP, Citibank and Publicis Groupe.
He currently leads the transformation of the internal controls function at Bridgestone: redesigning controls, review schedules and methodology — exactly the kind of work Transforma is named after. He has led teams and projects across India, the United States, Hungary, China, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Brazil, and now puts that multinational experience at the service of Costa Rican businesses.
Insights
Short reflections from practice: audit, control and structure, applied to the reality of Costa Rican business.
It’s a repeating pattern: a business that started with an idea and hard work grew faster than its own internal organization. Information lives scattered across WhatsApp, loose folders and the owner’s memory. There are no clear roles, no documented processes, and every decision goes through a single person — no matter how busy they are.
Selling more doesn’t fix this. It’s fixed with the same discipline used by multinationals’ shared-services centers: mapping processes, segregating duties, measuring with KPIs. The difference between an SME that stalls and one that scales is almost never the product — it’s whether someone sat down to design a structure before the chaos became permanent.
The right question is: who will implement it in your favor? A business that automates its invoicing, reporting or customer service with well-implemented AI doesn’t lose control — it gains it. It recovers hours currently lost to repetitive tasks and reinvests them in the one thing only the owner can do: deciding where the business grows next.
At Transforma we don’t sell AI as a trend. We treat it as one more tool within a control structure — just like a KPI dashboard or an org chart. It gets implemented where it creates real, measurable value, and discarded where it doesn’t.
What does distinguish a mature business from an improvised one is its ability to adapt when risk materializes: a client who doesn’t pay, a process that fails, data that gets lost. The companies that survive aren’t the ones that never have problems — they’re the ones that already have a system to detect them early and respond without panic.
That’s the real point of structuring a business: it isn’t about tidiness for its own sake, it’s about resilience. Every documented process, every clear responsibility, every visible KPI is a defense built in advance. That’s the audit mindset applied to the daily life of an SME — and it is, by far, the highest-return investment a business can make in itself.
Let’s begin
Tell us what’s stealing your team’s time. We’ll reply with an honest read on where AI can help — and where it can’t.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. The Launch Session is designed exactly for that: entrepreneurs with an idea who need to land it and launch on solid ground. The other packages are designed for businesses that already earn revenue but feel the operation slipping out of control.
Every package has a defined scope and deliverable from the start — you know exactly what you’ll receive before we begin. In the Evolution Retainer, concrete KPIs are also reviewed with you every month, so progress (or the lack of it) is visible from month one, not a surprise at the end.
With a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) from the first session, access restricted to only what the project requires, and the same information-control principles applied in international corporate audit.
That’s not the goal. AI is implemented to eliminate repetitive tasks and free your team’s time for higher-value work — not to replace people. Every automation is designed around your real operation, not the other way around.
No — we implement and connect the best existing tools on the market (like Claude, ChatGPT, Notion, Power BI or Make) instead of coding from scratch. That cuts your costs and timelines from months to weeks, and avoids the risk of a custom build that never quite finishes.
Yes — services are available in both Spanish and English, especially relevant for subsidiaries, shared-services centers and companies with headquarters abroad.