Carlos Maiguel
Founder & CEO, Corello
Conversations
The data exists. The intelligence doesn't.
Why one founder pointed AI at manufacturing instead of the cloud, how Corello captures tribal knowledge from operators who have run the same machines for thirty years, and what an AI coworker named Sophia does for a shop floor on a Monday morning.
Transcript →In their words
The data exists and the intelligence does not. You have tons of data. The thing is that it's so fragmented that you're not able to use it in a smart way.C·014
Corridor Context
Carlos Maiguel is the founder and CEO of Corello, an AI-native manufacturing intelligence system for small and mid-sized manufacturers, built out of Boston. A serial founder originally from Colombia, he spent five years consulting inside high-mix, low-volume shops before building Corello with Scale Up Labs and a technical co-founder who is the former CTO of Rockwell Automation. Corello's AI coworkers, like Sophia, embed directly into existing workflows to unlock tribal knowledge and return quotes in minutes instead of days.
The arc they moved through
A warm, rapid-fire start. Pride, personality, and the one word in each guest's language that English can't touch.
Where they come from, and how it shaped the way they build, invest, and lead. Terroir over resume.
The real work. The honest business, the hard decisions, the bet they're actually making. Host as peer, not fan.
The jam session. Escalating questions, playful to profound, and one answer the guest can save "pa' la sobremesa."
The same closing question, every guest, forever: who held the door open for you, and whose name goes on the door you're holding open?