About us
A premium AI boutique with eighteen years of enterprise roots
Yerbabuena Digital is a premium AI, data and cloud boutique built on 18+ years of enterprise software — the Málaga team behind Athento (intelligent documents, 100+ enterprises), then principal cloud architecture at Oracle, data governance at Okera and Databricks, entity resolution at Quantexa, and agentic AI governance at Trust3 AI and Privacera.
Our story
In 2005, a team spun out of the University of Málaga to bring fresh air to enterprise content management. They called it Yerbabuena — mint — because the software was meant to feel light, natural and refreshing in a category weighed down by heavy, slow tools. That team built Athento, an intelligent document platform that grew to serve banks, hospitals, councils and central administrations across Spain, Latin America and the United States.
The work taught us how enterprises really handle content, data and compliance at scale — and it sent us deeper. We went on to design data catalog and lineage at Waterline and Hitachi, run principal cloud architecture at Oracle (OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP), build fine-grained access control at Okera and Databricks, deliver entity resolution and AML at Quantexa, and shape agentic AI governance — agent discovery, Trustscore, PBAC and a Unified Trust Layer — at Trust3 AI and Privacera.
Yerbabuena Digital turns that arc outward: a boutique that builds and governs the modern enterprise — agentic AI, AI governance and trust, data architecture, cloud foundations, websites and intelligent content. Six practices, agent automation at the core, trilingual by default. Same mint. Same rigor. A premium partner, not a project mill.
What we value
What we value
Rigor where it counts
PBAC, audit evidence, lakehouse governance, cloud guardrails — the unglamorous bits that keep agents, data and cloud safe. We bring enterprise discipline to every engagement, not just the regulated ones.
Human in the loop
Agents should amplify human judgment, not replace it. You keep the wheel on approvals and exceptions; the agents do the heavy lifting with full traces.
Senior, not a bench
You work with engineers who have shipped for 100+ enterprises and governed public administrations. Principal-level PoCs, executive-grade pre-sales, real accountability.
Built to be understood
If you cannot explain what we built to your auditor or board, we did not finish. Clarity is a feature — in the architecture, the docs and the price.
Heritage timeline
- 2005Yerbabuena Software spins out of the University of Málaga; enterprise content management begins.
- 2009Athento intelligent document management launches.
- 2013Athento reaches 150+ enterprise customers across Spain, LATAM and the US.
- 2016Data catalog and lineage work at Waterline / Hitachi — the foundations of lakehouse governance.
- 2019Principal Cloud Architect at Oracle — OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP landing zones, migration and FinOps.
- 2021Fine-grained access control and data governance at Okera, then Databricks.
- 2023Entity resolution, AML and graph analytics at Quantexa.
- 2024Agentic AI governance at Trust3 AI and Privacera — agent discovery, Trustscore, PBAC, Unified Trust Layer.
- 2025Yerbabuena Digital brings it together — six practices, agent automation at the core, trilingual boutique for EMEA and the US.
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