Sebastián Delsalto
I build and run companies around AI.
I'm Sebastián Delsalto. From Quito, I connect strategy, software and operations through the Daleki Global ecosystem.

Founder · Builder · AI-Native Operator
Explore my workThe evidence
The thesis is operated, not explained.
These companies exist, have public sites and operate in industries that look nothing like each other. They are the proof that this is not a theoretical framework.
Daleki Lab
Software and AI consulting
An AI-native operating-systems agency. It audits a company's process, designs the operation, implements it and runs it, with human approval gates before anything ships.
Founder and operator
Daleki Trade
Foreign trade
Foreign trade with the real cost on the table: managed imports into Ecuador, exports, supplier validation at origin, and customs advisory.
Founder and operator
Daleki Capital
Asset management
Institutional digital-asset management: defined strategies, custody through regulated custodians, KYC/AML onboarding and periodic investor reporting.
Founder and operator
Daleki Art
Culture and contemporary art
A cultural movement and international curatorial network based in Quito, bringing emerging conceptual art into the spaces where Ecuador decides and creates.
Co-founder
Merchito
Manufacturing and corporate retail
Premium made-to-order corporate merchandise: an owned catalogue, customisation through embroidery, laser engraving and screen printing, and frictionless quoting.
Co-founder
Different industries. One conviction.
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Projects
Designing and putting your company's operating system to work. Delivery happens through Daleki Lab.
Explore a projectPartnerships
Building an opportunity with operators, partners and companies that share a long-term vision.
Propose a partnershipSpeaking and media
Conversations about AI-native companies, entrepreneurship and the decisions behind the operation.
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The thesis
Don't add AI to companies. Build companies AI-native.
Almost everyone is doing the first thing: an existing company, with its usual processes, plus some tools on top. The result is a layer. It works a little, it shows a little, and it changes neither the cost structure nor the speed of decision.
An AI-native company is not a company with agents. It is a company where artificial intelligence, software, data, workflows, agents, automation, deterministic systems and people were designed together, as a single operating system.
The difference shows up in where the decision sits. In the first, AI assists a human process. In the second, the process was born assuming it, and whatever stays in human hands is there because someone decided it should be, not because it was left over.
How I build
Workflows, Agents, Tools.
This is the framework I use to organise the operation of an AI-native company. Three layers, and nothing else. The temptation is always to add a fourth one that is really just documentation.
Workflows
Reproducible processes that turn an input into an output. They have a trigger, steps, validation, and defined behaviour for when they fail. If a process cannot be described that way, it is not ready to be automated.
Agents
AI systems that inspect, reason, propose or execute within explicit permissions. Each has a scope, allowed tools, prohibited actions and an escalation rule. An agent without written limits is not autonomy, it is exposure.
Tools
The services, APIs, scripts and libraries workflows and agents use. Each documents its interface, its auth model, and what happens when it fails.
Human gate
What I don't automate.
An AI-native company is not a company without people. The hard part is not deciding what to automate. It is deciding what not to, and holding that line when automating would be cheaper.
In the companies I run, these things pass through a person before they ship:
- Anything published under the brand's name.
- Any claim about results, figures or performance.
- Pricing, terms and commitments to a client.
- Decisions that affect someone else's money.
- Hiring, letting go, and anything that touches a team.
This is not decorative caution. A system that can publish without supervision can be wrong at the speed it produces, and that speed is precisely why it was built.
Build log
What I'm building.
Each entry is a real build with its problem, its decision, and what was deliberately left in human hands. No figures that cannot be verified.