Technology consulting

You know where you want to go. We'll take you there.

I help companies define their IT strategy, migrate to the cloud and adopt artificial intelligence, with a clear plan and sure footing at every step. I also build software with AI and modernise legacy systems.

  • IT strategy
  • Cloud migration
  • AI adoption
  • AI software factory
  • Legacy software
Services

Advisory and delivery.

Three advisory services to set the direction of the technology, and two delivery services to build and maintain the software. They can be engaged separately or together.

Advisory

IT strategy

A technology roadmap leadership understands and your team can deliver.

  • Maturity, architecture and team assessment
  • Roadmap prioritised by impact and cost
  • IT governance, budgeting and vendor management
  • Support on key decisions: build or buy, platforms, partners

Cloud migration

Reach the cloud with no surprises in operations or on the invoice.

  • Application assessment and business case (TCO)
  • Secure architecture and landing zone on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure
  • Phased migration, with a rollback plan
  • Cost optimisation and ongoing operations (FinOps)

AI adoption

From curiosity to use cases that deliver measurable value.

  • Finding and prioritising use cases
  • Focused pilots you can evaluate in weeks
  • Data, security and regulatory compliance
  • Training and change management for your teams

Delivery

AI software factory

Software development with AI agents, set up in your team or delivered by me.

  • Setting up the practice in your team: tools, workflow, review and testing of generated code
  • Security and quality controls for AI-written code
  • Development delivered by me, with a fixed scope and weekly releases; you own the code and the documentation
  • It is the method I use to build my own products

See the products

Legacy software

Migration and security patching for production systems that are no longer maintained.

  • Inventory of systems, languages, dependencies and End of Life versions
  • Fixing vulnerabilities, including those reported by AI-based analysis tools
  • Upgrading languages, frameworks and dependencies, with regression testing
  • Migration to a supported platform when upgrading is not viable

More about this service

How I work

A clear route, from start to finish.

No technology project should be a leap into the unknown. We move forward together in stages, with clear agreements and visible results at each one.

  1. 01
    Where you are

    Assessment

    I talk to your people and review systems, processes and costs. No assumptions.

  2. 02
    Where you're going

    Destination

    Together we set the business goals and how success will be measured.

  3. 03
    How to get there

    Route

    A phased plan with priorities, risks, budget and clear owners.

  4. 04
    Getting there together

    Execution

    I see the implementation through and leave your team ready to carry on.

Why Cabra

Sure-footed on difficult terrain.

Cabra is Spanish for goat. A mountain goat reaches places others won't attempt: it tests every foothold before shifting its weight, and never loses sight of the summit. That is how I approach my clients' technology projects.

Pragmatism

I recommend what your company can sustain, not what is fashionable.

Transparency

Risks, costs and progress in plain sight, from day one.

Autonomy

I transfer knowledge so your team doesn't depend on me.

Carlos Bravo
About me

Hi, I'm Carlos Bravo.

I've spent more than twenty years building information systems at scale, working along the way in academia, in government and at the United Nations. I founded Cabra to help companies with the technology decisions that matter most: strategy, cloud migration, technology innovation and artificial intelligence.

When you work with Cabra, you work directly with me: the person who does the assessment is the one who designs the route and sees the execution through.

Projects

I build what I recommend.

Besides advising companies, I design and build my own products. It's the most direct way to know what works.

The taliq.cl home page
AIIn production

Taliq

An AI recruiting assistant: it writes the job posting, assesses every candidate against the same criteria and coordinates the interviews.

A startup I co-founded · Technology

Finestra: system manager, terminal and GNOME Disks in a browser tab
CloudOpen source

Finestra

A desktop that runs in the browser and drives a headless Linux server: windows, a terminal, files, a system manager and real graphical applications.

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SecurityIn development

Vicus

End-to-end encrypted messaging you deploy into your own AWS account, built for private communities. Web and Android clients.

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Contact

Where do you want to go?

Tell me where your company stands and what you'd like to achieve. I'll reply personally to arrange a first conversation.

Prefer email?
hola@cabra.cl