AI & Business Consulting · Costa Rica

Global high performance, within your business’s reach.

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

A clear path, a clear price

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.

Corporate company?

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.

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The Transforma Methodology

Launch Session

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We understand your idea or your operation as it is today, without filters or assumptions. Everything starts with an honest conversation.

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The systems we use to structure your business

ClaudeChatGPTGeminiPerplexityManusNotionClickUpSmartsheetMicrosoft 365Power BITableauSAPClaudeChatGPTGeminiPerplexityManusNotionClickUpSmartsheetMicrosoft 365Power BITableauSAP

Who leads Transforma

Audit and risk, with applied AI judgment

Brandon Agüero, founder and principal consultant of 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.

  • MBA — EUDE Business School, Madrid
  • Bachelor’s in Business Administration — Universidad Fidélitas, Costa Rica
  • Bachelor’s in Law (in progress) — Universidad La Salle, Costa Rica
  • Certifications in Operational Risk, Lean Six Sigma and AI for Business (Anthropic Academy, Google)

Recognition

  • National winner — Junior Achievement Costa Rica (2014), qualifying as the country’s representative at the regional competition
  • Second place — Junior Achievement Americas, Company of the Year (COY) 2014, Ecuador
  • Active member of the Junior Achievement Costa Rica Alumni network
10+
years in risk, audit and compliance
8
countries with teams and projects led
4
multinationals: Bridgestone, HP, Citibank, Publicis

Working methodologies

Project Management Lean Six Sigma Kanban Controls auditing Risk management Team management Business strategy Continuous improvement

Insights

What we see working inside multinationals and SMEs

Short reflections from practice: audit, control and structure, applied to the reality of Costa Rican business.

Structure

Your business doesn’t have a sales problem. It has a structure problem.

Most businesses that grow empirically reach a point where revenue is fine and yet everything feels out of control.

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.

Artificial intelligence

AI shouldn’t scare you. It should work for you.

Many business owners see artificial intelligence as an abstract threat. The right question isn’t whether AI will replace them.

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.

Risk & control

Risks will always be there. What changes is whether your business knows how to manage them.

No business eliminates risk entirely — not even multinationals with decades of internal audit manage that.

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

The first step is a 30-minute conversation

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.