# Azumo

> Azumo is a San Francisco software development company that provides Latin America-based engineering teams, custom AI and application development, data engineering, and cloud services. It also offers conversational AI and managed open-weight model products.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Chike Agbai (Founder & CEO)
- **Products:** Nearshore engineering teams, Custom software and AI development, Data engineering and cloud services, Valkyrie, Charli / Charlibot
- **Notable:** Announced SOC 2 Type I compliance on August 28, 2023, following an audit by Prescient Assurance., Company case study reports search across 3.5M+ Meta supplier records and a 40%+ improvement in search precision., Company case study reports an eight-week delivery for Facebook’s conference supplier registration application.

## Products & services

- **Nearshore engineering teams** — Staff augmentation, dedicated teams and project delivery with engineers in Latin America working overlapping U.S. hours.
- **Custom software and AI development** — Web, mobile, enterprise, machine learning and generative AI applications, including production integration and maintenance.
- **Data engineering and cloud services** — Data pipelines, analytics, infrastructure, deployment automation and DevOps.
- **Valkyrie** — Managed open-weight model fine-tuning and serving on dedicated hardware, with compatible APIs and reserved concurrency.
- **Charli / Charlibot** — Conversational AI for websites, knowledge retrieval, support and business workflows.
- **Hello by Azumo** — AI call answering, routing, structured messages and calendar booking; published plans start at $449 per month for 500 minutes and $789 for 1,000 minutes.

## Achievements

- Announced SOC 2 Type I compliance on August 28, 2023, following an audit by Prescient Assurance.
- Company case study reports search across 3.5M+ Meta supplier records and a 40%+ improvement in search precision.
- Company case study reports an eight-week delivery for Facebook’s conference supplier registration application.
- Clutch listing reviewed during research showed a 4.9/5 rating across 27 reviews.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Agbai published an account of replacing Azumo’s $700/month answering service with an internal AI receptionist, reporting over 90% lower recurring cost.
- **2026-09** — CTO Juan Pablo Lorandi published a discussion of metered AI pricing and Valkyrie’s flat-price approach.

## Links

- Website: https://azumo.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/azumo-llc/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/azumohq
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/azumohq/

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Last updated: 2026-10-24