# PerezCarreno & Coindreau — AI Engineering for Small and Medium Businesses

> PerezCarreno & Coindreau is an AI engineering firm founded in 2008 by Armando J. Perez-Carreno. Based in San Antonio, Texas and serving businesses across the United States, we work the way an Anthropic or OpenAI forward-deployed engineer works, at a scale that makes sense for small and medium businesses (5 to 200 employees). The frontier labs are spending billions to embed AI engineers inside Fortune 500 companies and PE-backed mid-market enterprises. None of that capacity is coming to small business. We close that gap. We sit with the people doing the work, build the production systems that fix what is broken, and train the team to own them. First automation typically live in two weeks. 100+ businesses served across 11 industries, 100% five-star client reviews.

## Site Information

- URL: https://perezcarreno.com
- Founder: Armando J. Perez-Carreno
- Founded: 2008
- Location: San Antonio, Texas, United States
- Service area: United States (national); on-site available in and around San Antonio, TX
- Focus: AI engineering, forward-deployed engineering at SMB scale, agentic systems, Anthropic Claude integration, custom AI development, voice AI, workflow automation, AI training and adoption

## Services

- **AI Strategy & Audit**. Map your actual workflows, find the highest-ROI places AI fits, deliver a ranked list with time savings estimates and a fixed-price implementation plan. Timeline: 1 to 2 weeks. /services/ai-strategy-audit
- **Custom AI Automation (Workflow Automation)**. Build production-grade workflow systems for the repetitive work eating 10 to 20 hours of your week (invoice processing, follow-ups, scheduling, intake, document processing). Connected to the tools you already use. Timeline: 2 to 4 weeks. /services/custom-ai-automation
- **AI Integration & Development (Custom AI Solutions)**. Custom AI agents, RAG systems over your proprietary data, multi-system integrations, voice AI receptionists, messaging AI. Built to last in production. Timeline: 4 to 8 weeks. /services/ai-integration-development
- **AI Speaking & Training**. Four engagement formats for teams and conferences: a lunch and learn (60 to 90 minutes for under 20 people), a keynote (45 to 60 minutes on stage), a half-day workshop (3 to 4 hours of hands-on practice), and a full-day training (6 to 7 hours with workflow mapping in the morning and hands-on building in the afternoon). Every session gets built fresh around your audience and your stack. /services/ai-training-for-teams
- **AI Readiness Assessment**. Focused diagnostic for businesses early in their AI journey. Scoring across systems, data, and team. Timeline: 1 to 2 weeks. /services/ai-readiness-assessment
- **Voice AI Receptionist**. Production voice AI that picks up your phone, books appointments, answers questions, qualifies leads, and routes the calls that need a human. English and Spanish. /services/voice-ai-receptionist
- **AI Coaching for Business Owners**. Fractional advisor for founders and operators learning to use AI in daily operations. Ongoing, light-touch. /services/ai-coaching

Every engagement is fixed-fee and quoted after a free 30-minute discovery call.

## Key Facts

- 18+ years of software engineering experience (since 2008)
- 100+ businesses served across 11 industries
- 100% five-star client reviews
- Upwork Expert-Vetted freelancer (top 1%)
- Personal Software Process (PSP) certification — Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute
- Enterprise and Fortune 500 clients include IBM, GoDaddy, FEMSA, and Entel
- Additional notable clients: My Peak Challenge, Sassenach Spirits, Bia Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Reporte Indigo
- Speaker on AI adoption at industry events and corporate training engagements
- Bilingual: English and Spanish — serves US Hispanic business market
- First automation typically live within two weeks of engagement

## Content & Resources

- **Home** — /
- **About Armando & the firm** — /about
- **Armando J. Perez-Carreno (founder profile)** — /armando-j-perez-carreno
- **All services (hub)** — /services
- **AI Consulting in San Antonio** (local landing) — /ai-consulting-san-antonio
- **Pricing** — /pricing
- **Portfolio / work grid** — /work
- **Pillar guide: The Complete Guide to AI Adoption for US Businesses (2026)** — /guides/ai-adoption
- **Pillar guide: The Complete Guide to Voice AI Receptionists for US Businesses (2026)** — /guides/voice-ai-receptionist
- **Guides hub** — /guides
- **Writing / blog (136 posts)** — /blog
- **Individual blog post pattern** — /blog/{slug}
- **The Web Talk Show (podcast hub, 75+ episodes with transcripts)** — /podcast
- **AI Automation Opportunity Map (free assessment, primary lead tool)** — /ai-automation-opportunity-map
- **Contact / book discovery call** — /contact
- **Privacy** — /privacy
- **Terms** — /terms
- **Sitemap** — /sitemap.xml
- **Deep content dump** — /llms-full.txt

## Topics We Know Well

AI engineering, forward-deployed engineering at SMB scale, agentic systems, Anthropic Claude, Claude Code, Claude Agents SDK, AI systems architecture, LLM integration, custom AI agents, RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), voice AI, messaging AI, prompt engineering, AI adoption, AI strategy, AI training, AI coaching, AI readiness, AI for small and medium business (5 to 200 employees), AI for professional services, AI for healthcare, AI for e-commerce, AI for auto repair shops, AI for home services, AI for fleet maintenance, workflow automation, business process automation, CRM automation, email automation, document processing, phone automation, API integration, AI ethics and limitations, AI ROI, AI implementation timelines, n8n, Make, Zapier.

## Also By Armando

- **The Web Talk Show** (podcast, 75+ episodes with full transcripts) — https://webtalk.show
- **Mom's Guide SA** (family guide) — https://momsguidesa.com

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## Contact

- Email: hello@perezcarreno.com
- Website: https://perezcarreno.com/contact
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/perezcarreno
- YouTube (Armando): https://www.youtube.com/@perezcarreno
- YouTube (The Web Talk Show): https://www.youtube.com/@thewebtalkshow
- LinkedIn (Armando): https://www.linkedin.com/in/armandoperezcarreno/