Medra

About Medra

We sold before we built. Then we built what we wished we had.

Medra is a conversational AI company founded by commercial operators. We spent years running sales and account management inside large delivery and marketplace businesses, and we build the AI ourselves. Buenos Aires is home. Nineteen countries are where the agents work.

Buenos Aires19+ countriesWhatsApp · Voice · Email

Commercial experts

People who have carried a quota.

The commercial team at Medra comes from sales, account management and operations roles at some of the largest technology companies in the region. They have opened markets, run outbound at scale and owned the relationship with thousands of accounts. They design every flow first as a commercial process, and only then as an AI system.

Experience built at

  • Uber
  • Mercado Libre

AI experts

People who build the models into products.

A multidisciplinary team of engineers, data scientists, linguists and designers builds and operates the platform: the agent runtime, the voice stack, the evaluation suite and the console your team works in. Nothing is white-labelled. When a conversation misbehaves, the person who fixes it sits ten metres from the person who sold it.

Disciplines in the room

  • Machine learning
  • Software engineering
  • Data science
  • Conversation design
  • Linguistics
  • Product design

The story

From a spreadsheet of unanswered leads to one agent across the whole lifecycle.

Medra started as a frustration. Leads arrived faster than a human team could answer them, and the tools on the market treated every stage of the customer relationship as a separate product. We decided the conversation should be one thing, held by one agent, with one memory.

  1. 01

    The operators' problem

    Years inside delivery and marketplace businesses taught us where conversations break: at every handoff between a tool, a team and a channel. Context was lost, and customers repeated themselves.

  2. 02

    Medra is founded

    A small group of commercial leads and engineers in Buenos Aires builds the first agent for a single flow, prequalification, and runs it against a human baseline before anyone is allowed to call it a product.

  3. 03

    Seven flows, one memory

    Sales, onboarding, early life, account management, support and collections follow. The agent that qualified a lead is the same one that knows about the invoice problem in March.

  4. 04

    Nineteen countries

    WhatsApp, voice and email as a single conversation, operated for enterprise clients across Latin America and beyond, with CESI.AI as the parent company behind the research partnerships.

Research and academic partners

The science behind the agents is not ours alone.

Through CESI.AI, our parent company, Medra is a partner of universities and applied research laboratories on both sides of the hemisphere. The partnerships feed our evaluation methods, our language models for regional Spanish and Portuguese, and the people who join the team.

CESI.AI, parent companyAn Argentine AI software consultancy and the holding behind Medra. CESI.AI holds the institutional agreements with the academic partners below and runs joint research programs in applied artificial intelligence and data science.
  • University
    Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Universidad de Buenos AiresUBA · Public research university, Argentina. Joint work on natural language processing for Rioplatense and neutral Spanish.
  • University
    New Jersey Institute of Technology
    New Jersey Institute of TechnologyNJIT · Polytechnic research university, United States. Collaboration on applied machine learning and data engineering.
  • Research center
    Centro Interinstitucional en Ciencia de Datos
    Centro Interinstitucional en Ciencia de DatosCID · Inter-institutional data science center. Methods for measurement, control groups and causal evaluation of conversational campaigns.
  • Laboratory
    Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial Aplicada
    Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial AplicadaLIAA · Applied AI laboratory. Research on dialogue systems, speech and evaluation of large language models in production.

One team that understands both the quota and the model. That is the whole idea.

  • HeadquartersBuenos Aires
  • Countries with live agents19+
  • ChannelsWhatsApp · Voice · Email
  • Parent companyCESI.AI