AI in LATAM: How to Break Into Mexico’s Tech Market |🎙The Nearshore Cafe Podcast

19 Mar 2026 · 23 min
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In this Russian‑language episode of The Nearshore Café, host Brian Samson interviews Oleg Berenov, founder and CEO of Flametree.ai (Flame 3 AI). Berenov recounts his 30‑year entrepreneurial career, beginning with an internal startup that built a banking core system for CIS markets and later founding a custom‑software services firm that grew to 1,500 engineers without external capital. He describes early work on machine‑learning models for credit risk and regulatory reporting dating back to 2005, which paved the way for the 2022 launch of Flame 3 AI – an agentic, LLM‑agnostic platform that enables continuous improvement of AI‑driven customer‑service agents for banks and other industries. The conversation highlights the importance of team culture, ongoing education (programs at Berkeley, IMD, MIT), and a geographically distributed engineering footprint (Cyprus hub plus offices in Dubai, Johannesburg, North Africa, Serbia, Armenia, and CIS). Berenov explains how the company entered the Mexican market opportunistically through a micro‑finance client, leveraged partner channels, and plans to open a dedicated LATAM office. He emphasizes the platform’s technical flexibility (swap any LLM in minutes, multi‑channel integration) and its industry‑agnostic approach, citing a client that runs five distinct AI agents for various banking functions. The episode concludes with contact information for listeners.

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