Aníbal Carmona
Building. Transforming. Thinking what's next.
Entrepreneur, technology executive and advisor.
More than 35 years building technology companies across Ibero-America. Founder of Unitech, former president of CESSI and founder of Kairosia.
Today I work with entrepreneurs, CEOs and boards trying to answer one question that keeps me occupied:
What really changes when artificial intelligence stops being a tool and begins to transform the very logic of a company?
I spent more than three decades building one technology company.
I founded Unitech when the software industry in Latin America was still beginning to take shape.
For more than 35 years we moved through different technological generations, economic cycles, crises, international expansions and deep transformations of our industry.
The company came to operate in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Spain.
After more than thirty years as founder and CEO, I began a new professional chapter focused on strategic advisory, investing and thinking about technological transformation.
That decision closed a very important chapter of my professional life. But it opened another.
Today my interest lies less in building another large organization from scratch and much more in understanding, debating and helping decide what comes next — especially now that artificial intelligence is altering some of the premises on which we built companies over the last decades.
- +35
- years as founder and executive
- Millions
- of users on mission-critical platforms
- +200
- startups analyzed
One career. Several technological eras.
Founder
Unitech
More than 35 years building and leading a technology company from Argentina into a business with an international footprint.
Industry leadership
CESSI
President for four years of the Argentine Software Industry Chamber. Active participation in debates on talent, the knowledge industry, technological transformation and policy for the sector.
International expansion
Latin America → Europe
Expansion of Unitech from Argentina towards Chile, Peru, Colombia and later Spain.
New chapter
Kairosia
A new professional stage centered on strategic advisory, investing and thinking about artificial intelligence, enterprise transformation and the future of the software industry.
Questions I find hard to ignore.
AI & Enterprise Reinvention
What does it really mean to become an AI-native company?
Not how to add copilots to an existing organization, but which processes, structures and models stop making sense when certain capabilities become abundant.
The future of software
What happens to an industry when producing code stops being the scarce part of the system?
AI does not only threaten certain development tasks. It can alter the entire economics of companies that live off producing software.
Human judgment
When machines can produce better and better answers, where does real human value move to?
I am increasingly interested in the difference between generating answers and making good decisions.
Founders after the company
Building a company over decades inevitably ends up mixing identity, work and purpose.
What happens when that company stops being yours? And, above all: what do you build next?
Technology & institutions
After decades working with complex systems, justice, governments and institutions, I remain interested in a fundamental question:
How do we use technology to transform institutions without losing sight of the fact that technology is never the goal?
Education
What should we learn, and how should we learn it, when knowledge becomes instantly accessible and part of what we teach turns obsolete before it is applied?
I am interested in how education prepares people not just to use technology, but to think, decide and adapt in a world that keeps changing.
The economics of software are changing.
An important part of my current work consists of researching how artificial intelligence is modifying software development.
Not only from the angle of individual productivity. I am especially interested in what happens one level up.
If code becomes cheap, the scarce resource moves somewhere else.
Lines of inquiry
- Economics of software development
- AI coding agents
- Vibe coding
- Spec-Driven Development
- Agentic software engineering
- Software factories
- Outcome-based pricing
- Intellectual property
- Security and verification
- Technical debt
- The future of junior developers
- Organizational design
- AI-native operating models
Formats
Research, essays and reports on AI, software and enterprise transformation.
AdvisoryKairosia
Kairosia is the platform from which I currently work with entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs and organizations facing strategic decisions related to artificial intelligence and transformation.
We do not implement technology for the sake of implementing technology.
The starting point is another question:
What should really change in the business?
I work especially around decisions like
- AI strategy
- Business reinvention
- Operating model
- Software industry transformation
- Build / Buy / Partner
- Strategic prioritization
- Board-level AI decisions
I prefer scar tissue to frameworks.
Most of what I know about companies I did not learn by observing them from the outside.
I learned it hiring people, losing clients, winning others, going through crises, opening markets, making wrong decisions, surviving technological shifts and building an organization over more than three decades.
That is why my way of analyzing a company tends to start less from the framework and more from a question:
What would I do if this company were mine?
Still curious about people building things.
After spending much of my life as a founder, I still feel a strong affinity for those trying to build something that does not yet exist.
I have analyzed more than two hundred startups and participated selectively as a business angel.
But my current interest is not only in the capital. I am especially interested in accompanying founders in those moments where an experienced conversation can be more valuable than another spreadsheet.
Where I can help
- 01Strategy
- 02Product-market fit
- 03Business model
- 04Founder decisions
- 05Scaling
- 06AI strategy
- 07Exit readiness
Throughout my career I actively participated in the Ibero-American technology ecosystem, both from within the company and from business organizations and institutions.
Former President — CESSI
Founder — Unitech
Founder — Kairosia
Technology industry speaker
Business Angel
Advisor
Ideas in progress.
- AI & Software
The economics of software when code becomes abundant
When producing code stops being the scarce part of the system, where does value accumulate? A first attempt at mapping the new economics.
August 2026 · 8 min read - Software Development
Humans 1 — AI 0? The promise and limits of Spec-Driven Development
Spec-Driven Development promises to move human effort upstream. What does it actually change, and what does it quietly leave untouched?
Coming soon · 7 min read
Curiosity doesn't stop at technology.
Outside work, much of my time revolves around other ways of learning and exploring.
I am particularly drawn to those books, places and conversations capable of slightly changing the way one looks at the world.
- Literature
- History
- Philosophy
- Art
- Cinema
- Travel
- Golf
After 35 years building a company, I'm less interested in predicting the future than in understanding what assumptions are about to stop being true.
Good conversations usually start with a difficult question.
Barcelona, Spain