/ 001 — who
Francisco Javier Moreno Coronado. Chilean based in Mexico. Acting HR Director, payroll lead, senior auditor, and operations designer turned AI architect. I take processes apart down to the bone and return them as mechanisms that work on their own.
/ 002 — next step
the thesis
Ten years inside operations taught me one thing: no system fails because of the technology. It fails because no one ever sat down to understand the real process — the human one, not the one in the manual.
the method
I sit down. I listen. I map every step, every exception, every “well, here we always do it this way”. And then I return a mechanism that doesn't get tired, doesn't quit, and doesn't call in sick on a Monday.
(Chile in production · Mexico in beta · request a demo)
Multi-tenant payroll platform already built and in production. Single core calculation engine with rules modules per statute: SMB Labor Code, Primary Care Law 19,378, Independent-contractor regime 21,133 and Merit Art. 30-bis in Chile; Federal Labor Law, Social Security and Housing Fund in Mexico (active beta). Versioned legal updates per commit, immutable audit trail, employee portal with national-ID identity, usage-based billing per active worker. You won't wait for it to be built — you'll try it on your real payroll.
Surgical diagnosis
One week inside your operation. I talk to the people who do the work, not the ones who order it. I map every step, every check, every workaround. I leave with a diagram your team recognizes — and the exact points where time is being lost.
duration
5–7 days
Architecture
I decide what gets automated, what gets assisted, what stays human. I define integrations, dependencies, fallbacks and success metrics. You get a blueprint you can read — no jargon — and a 2-week pilot to validate before we build.
duration
5–10 days
Construction
Weekly sprints with live demos. You watch the system grow — you don't receive a black box at the end. Real integrations with your tools, real data, real decisions. Living documentation, in plain language.
duration
4–10 weeks
Ongoing support
Handoff with your team, observability set up, runbooks ready for when something moves. The mechanism is delivered ready to run on its own — but follow-up, monitoring and accompaniment stay available for as long as you need them, whether to refine what was built, scale to new processes, or be there when the business shifts.
duration
at your pace
End-to-end numerical recompute of the full monthly payroll close for regulated operations of ~900 employees, mixing special-statute regimes (Primary Care Law 19,378) with the general Labor Code. Line-by-line reconciliation of net pay and each component against the accounting close, plus cross-checking of 132 pay concepts against statutory text, labor authority rulings, social-security rulings and pension oversight — via independent legal-research agents with cross-source verification. Typical output per cycle: verified correct practices, questionable findings prioritized by economic impact, and at least one material finding identified for board-level action.
Modular payroll ERP inspired by SAP S/4HANA and Workday, engineered for LATAM regulatory complexity. Single core calculation engine with one rules module per statute: Labor Code SMB, Primary Care Law 19,378, Independent-contractor regime 21,133, and Merit Art. 30-bis in Chile; Federal Labor Law, Social Security and Housing Fund in Mexico (active beta). Versioned legal updates per commit (Pension Reform Law 21,735, 2026 SII withholding step-up, traceable labor-authority rulings), official electronic invoicing for Chile, employee portal with national-ID identity, and billing per active worker per month. Every calculation leaves an immutable audit trail with cited legal source and per-tenant configurable compliance SLA.
Agent that resolves employee queries on pay stubs, deductions, time-off, bonuses, benefits and perks — without the people team handling them. Available 24/7 over WhatsApp Cloud API and web channels, with smart escalation to the right human when needed — full context pre-loaded so the internal response is instant. Built under security by design: isolated read-only database, fully parameterized SQL queries, identity-scoped RBAC, hardened endpoints, mandatory TLS across the flow. Pre-intervention diagnosis: ~45% of HR inbound was trivial and repetitive — resolvable with data already living in internal systems.
People intelligence and labor-compliance platform for corporations operating in regulated sectors. Compresses the mandatory legal-reporting cycle from 3 months to 10 minutes via automated payroll-validation pipelines over live data. 80% reduction in manual touchpoints at monthly close. Real-time executive visibility for the C-Suite: headcount, payroll cost per operating unit, leading compliance alerts, pre-close findings that prevent external-audit observations. Designed under Lean Six Sigma DMAIC over representative samples and cross-validated against monthly accounting.
Multi-tenant SaaS platform for general counsel, corporate legal departments and compliance officers operating in Chile. Continuous indexing of three official sources — Labor Authority, Comptroller General of the Republic, National Congress Library — with Judiciary on the roadmap. Vector semantic search across rulings and statutes, conversational chat that cites source and date on every answer, and a proactive regulatory-alerts agent on the roadmap. Tiered pricing per user or per organization (Starter / Pro / Enterprise with OIDC SSO), and planned integrations to Chilean payroll ERPs and e-filing exports.
End-to-end implementation of a custom HRIS for a regulated corporation of 900+ employees with a fixed $120M CLP budget. Modular architecture inspired by SAP and Workday, adapted to the client's regulatory framework (Primary Care Law 19,378 + Labor Code + supplementary Administrative Statute). Full definition of the organizational role architecture, structured change management under Prosci ADKAR methodology (Awareness · Desire · Knowledge · Ability · Reinforcement), shift- and role-specific training, and handoff with living operational runbooks. Success was measured not just on go-live: it was first-quarter real adoption and a measurable reduction in people-team workload.
/ the case that isn't here
I'm not limited to these cases. Bring whatever you've got: the report no one wants to write, the reconciliation that doesn't add up, the form that always arrives late, the question your team answers 300 times a month. We talk about it in 30 minutes. If it makes sense, we start. If it doesn't, I'll tell you.
30 minutes can change your operation forever — and give you back millions in time you've been losing for years without realizing it.
More than ten years running processes from the inside: payrolls with hundreds of people, audits that have to balance, HR teams operating under real pressure, monthly closes that don't forgive. I know the pain from inside, because I lived it before I could automate it.
That's the unfair advantage I bring: when your team explains the process to me, they don't have to translate it. I've been there. I know where to aim, which exception always shows up late, which step no one documents because “everyone knows it” — and that's exactly why it doesn't work.
the trajectory
Lead auditor at a Chilean consulting firm
Santiago
Payroll lead — large-scale operation
Santiago
Acting HR Director
Santiago
Process and digital transformation lead
Santiago
AI Architect — own practice
Santiago / Mexico City
Aethon ERP in production · Legalaethon in client pilot
Mexico City
These are the questions I hear in every conversation. I'm answering them here so when we talk, we can skip to what actually matters: your process.
A 30-minute call. You tell me what hurts. I tell you, without selling you anything, whether it makes sense to automate it, how big the problem really is, and how long it would reasonably take. If it doesn't apply, I tell you straight.
Thirty minutes can save you millions in hours you've been paying for years without realizing it. It's probably the most profitable conversation you'll have this quarter.
or write me directly at francisco.morc@aethon.mx