Independent judgment · Mexico City

Difficult decisions
are not solved with opinion.

Ladibu advises senior leadership on decisions that cannot be delegated. It always starts with strategy and the business problem, never with technology: only afterward is it decided whether the answer is technological, and if so, of what kind. With evidence senior leadership can audit step by step.

Structure with judgment. Execution with impact.

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Why independent

Judgment is measured by the value it creates for the client, always thought through from their business problem.

01

We do not resell technology

We are not a channel for any manufacturer. The architecture we recommend is not conditioned by a price list.

02

We do not arrive with a solution already built

We are not tied to a platform, a cloud provider, or a preferred architecture. The diagnosis defines the tool; the tool never defines the diagnosis.

What we do

Everything starts with a question the organization cannot answer on its own.

Understanding the problem is what determines the answer, and that answer may not be artificial intelligence. If answering it requires building something, we support the execution. If the judgment needs to be sustained over time, we stay on the client's side. And if the question comes back every month, we turn it into an instrument.

  • 01
    Diagnostics for difficult decisions

    Enter a market or exit it. Build or buy. Grow, restructure, or pause an operation. Method designed for the question: fault tree, competing hypotheses, and a single artifact senior leadership audits session after session. No conclusion enters the final report unless it holds up to traceable evidence.

    Per project
    Scope and timeline depend on the problem
  • 02
    Strategic advisory on technology and data

    The expert counterpart on the client's side. We govern their vendor ecosystem instead of competing with it: we evaluate proposals, negotiate scope, and hold the technical judgment at the table where it's decided.

    Ongoing
    Monthly retainer
  • 03
    Data and artificial intelligence

    From roadmap and feasibility to data governance and execution. When the answer is artificial intelligence, we specify whether it is predictive, generative, or agentic before building. We get involved in the build, not just the recommendation, and leave capabilities the team can sustain without us.

    By phase
    With the client's team
  • 04
    Instruments

    When the same question repeats every month, it stops being answered by hand. We build the machine that answers it with traceable figures.

    Recurring
    CGE · See more
30+

Years building technology businesses in Latin America

5

Industries we already work in

2

Constant execution alliances

0

Figures this site makes up

Who does it

Senior specialists at the table, no layers in between.

Ladibu is a boutique firm co-founded by Felipe and Jimena Labbé. It leads the judgment and the client relationship on every engagement, with technical execution supported by two constant alliances and specialists brought in as the problem demands. Every variable of an engagement has a named owner.

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Felipe Labbé, founding partner of Ladibu Felipe Labbé

Founding partner

Chilean based in Mexico. More than thirty years building technology businesses across Latin America: eighteen at Hewlett Packard, including the opening of the Chile subsidiary; founder of an analytics firm acquired by a regional fund; a decade as external advisor to a telecommunications group on industry vertical strategy. Mentor at the Endeavor network.

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Jimena Labbé, founding partner of Ladibu Jimena Labbé

Founding partner

More than a decade leading strategy, international expansion, and technology transformation in highly complex organizations across Latin America. She began at Endeavor Mexico and was a Senior Manager at Deloitte, where she led digital transformation projects for the country's leading private hospital systems.

Meet the full team

Own framework Before building, it decides whether it makes sense.

AIxBu · Judgment framework for artificial intelligence

When artificial intelligence makes sense, when it doesn't, and what to do in each case

Most artificial intelligence frameworks move from technology toward the client, not from the client toward technology. AIxBu reverses that logic: it starts from where the business needs to accelerate. If the answer isn't artificial intelligence yet, it identifies what's missing for it to be. If it is, it specifies what type: predictive, generative, agentic, or a combination of the three.

See AIxBu in detail

Instrument An instrument is born from a problem that already repeated itself.

CGE · Commercial Governance Engine

Governance of the commercial pipeline

A forecast doesn't fall apart for lack of data, it falls apart because nobody trusts it. CGE reads the pipeline exactly as it lives in the CRM and returns a verdict with every figure traceable: a deterministic engine calculates, artificial intelligence agents apply the judgment built over thirty-plus years auditing real pipelines, and neither one has permission to make up a number.

See CGE in detail

Artificial intelligence only creates value when there is business clarity, understood processes, and disciplined execution.

At Ladibu we work from the business toward the technology to ensure real, lasting impact.

The principle

It starts with the business. Never with the technology.

Next step

Let's start with the question that has no answer yet.

A thirty-minute conversation, no proposal attached. If an engagement makes sense at the end, we'll talk about it. If it doesn't, we'll say so.

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