Claude Impact Lab
Chile 2026
899 applicants. 48 teams competed. 12 finalists. 3 winners. 2 days that changed the conversation about AI and financial regulation in Latin America.
Verified impact metrics
Data extracted directly from the production database. Not from the website. Not from marketing. Real numbers.
Selection funnel
Applications per challenge
The 3 winning teams
Selected with a binary sub-checks rubric with mandatory evidence. Final score = mentor (40%) + Demo Day judge (60%) + bonus. Scores published live on the Zona IA Stage screen.
Top-tier judges and mentors
20 evaluators total — 10 judges and 10 mentors — leaders in the fintech, AI, regulation and banking ecosystem of Chile.
Judges — Demo Day (10)
- Jazmin Jorquera — Vice President, FinteChile
- Josefina Movillo — Executive Director, FinteChile
- Jose Manuel Pena — Head of AI, Habitat
- Juan Valderrama — Caja Los Andes
- Francisco Provoste — Clay
- Lucas Bascunan — Maxxa
- Alejandro D'andrea — Botman AI
- Gabriel Hes — Sonda
- Victor Andrade — Legal counsel, Impact Lab
- Felipe Pacheco — Claude Community Ambassador, Bendita IA / Anthropic
Mentors — Phase 1 (8)
- Felipe Briceno — Banco Falabella
- Miguel Pulgar — CMF — Chilean Financial Market Commission
- Nicolas Nuckell — Active IT
- Guillermo Becerra — Becerra-Ojeda
- Cesar Cabrera — Valkimia
- Jaime — Ecosistema NET
- Gabriel Hes — Sonda (dual role: also judge)
- Felipe Pacheco — Bendita IA / Anthropic (dual role: also judge)
Bendi — The wise owl
AI copilot built on Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5. It did not replace the human evaluator — it empowered them. Processed more information in 2 days than a human panel could review in weeks.
Conversational chat with evaluators
Mentors and judges consulted Bendi in real time: verifying regulatory claims against the Legal Wiki, comparing evidence between teams, deepening technical aspects. Bendi was not just answering — it was a mentor in itself.
Divergence audit
Every time a mentor marked a sub-check differently from Bendi's suggestion, the system logged the divergence for calibration review. Total transparency between AI and human.
Legal Wiki — Real regulatory data
Teams worked with real legislation, not fictitious data. The Legal Wiki covered the current Chilean financial regulatory framework:
Fintech Law — sandbox, open finance
Data Protection — ARCO rights, DPO
Supervision, licensing, cybersecurity
56,000+ lines of code. 3 developers. Claude Code.
The complete Impact Lab platform was built from scratch using Claude Code as the primary development tool. Three Chilean developers proved that running a national-scale event with frontier AI tools is possible.
What we built
Stack: Next.js 14+ (App Router) · strict TypeScript · Supabase (PostgreSQL + Realtime + Auth + Storage) · Claude API · Tailwind CSS · Resend · Vercel
AI Fintech Governance Roundtable 2027
First Public-Private AI Fintech Governance Roundtable in Chile. Closed summit where the guidelines for addressing artificial intelligence in the Chilean fintech industry with a 2027 vision were discussed.
Participants
Felipe Pacheco
Claude Community Ambassador
Victor Andrade
Legal counsel
Josefina Movillo
Executive Director, FinteChile
Maxxa · Sonda · Clay · Active IT · Botman IA · Caja Los Andes · Poweredia
Public regulatory sector present
(Law 20.730 — Lobby Law)
Topics discussed and agreed
Basic standard for AI use in fintech
The roundtable identified the urgent need to establish a minimum standard for the use of artificial intelligence in the Chilean financial industry — a framework that allows responsible innovation.
National MCPs — how to implement them
How to implement Model Context Protocols at the country level, connecting AI models with public regulatory endpoints (CMF, SII, SERNAC) so the industry consumes regulation programmatically and in real time.
Government vision on AI
How the Chilean State understands the use of artificial intelligence and what benefits it sees for its own operation — from automated oversight to citizen service with conversational agents.
Act with 2027 commitments
An act was signed with governance guidelines and embedded ethics, to be developed with public and private institutions as a model for the Chilean fintech industry.
Sponsors and partners
| Role | Organization |
|---|---|
| Organizer | Felipe Pacheco · Claude Ambassador Chile |
| Technical Partner | Anthropic |
| Industry partner | FinteChile ORG |
| Sponsor Track 01 | Clay + Caja Los Andes |
| Sponsor Track 02 | Sonda |
| Sponsor Track 03 | Active IT |
| Content sponsor | Bendita IA |
| Ecosystem | Botman IA · Maxxa · Poweredia |
Relive the Impact Lab
Two days that changed the conversation about AI and financial regulation in Chile. Here is the record.
Event videos
Recaps, after movies and the live event screen from the Impact Lab.
A turning point for AI in Chile and Latin America
What started as an idea — bringing Chilean financial regulation closer to the 5 million Chileans who today cannot read it — became the most serious AI-applied-to-fintech event ever held in the Southern Cone. This is the story, in numbers.
All of Chile arrived in Santiago
899 people applied. Builders traveled from Antofagasta, Valparaiso, Concepcion, Temuco, Punta Arenas. University students asked for permission, professionals left their desks, engineers paid for flights with their savings to be at the Impact Lab. More than 200 builders ended up present at Espacio Riesco.
48 hours of code that solves Chile
48 teams competed actively. Thousands of lines of code written in 2 days — code that translates financial contracts for someone opening their first bank account, code that detects scams before a grandmother transfers money, code that protects data of microentrepreneurs from poorly configured AI models. Real solutions for real problems.
Iteration without pause: mentors, sponsors, regulators
Teams did not build alone. 2 full days iterating with 10 top-tier mentors (Banco Falabella, CMF, Active IT, Valkimia, Sonda and more), validating with sponsor companies (Clay, Sonda, Active IT, Caja Los Andes), working with real data from Chilean regulators curated in the Legal Wiki: CMF, SII, SERNAC, BCN, CSIRT.
The Governance Roundtable marked a historic milestone
For the first time in Chile, private companies, government, regulators, non-profit trade associations, and academia sat at the same table to determine how to improve the AI-applied-to-fintech industry with a 2027 vision.
The world watched Chile
We had international visitors who saw, in the front row, how the fintech world is developed from Chile — how a small country builds big solutions with AI. Latin America was watching.
Always-full workshops
10+ workshops and content sessions on the Zona IA Stage, with silent-stage headphones. Each session with 150-200 people — always full. More than 2,000 cumulative attendances over the 2 days.
A high-impact awards ceremony
In front of 250 people, the 3 winning teams took the stage. The 10 judges were top-tier in Chile in AI, fintech and regulation: FinteChile, Habitat, Caja Los Andes, Clay, Maxxa, Botman AI, Sonda and more. Each team earned the prestige of being recognized by a rubric that came from Anthropic — the same rigor applied to Claude products — supported by Bendi, the wise owl.
Prizes to keep building
The 3 winners took home a Mac Mini and a standing desk — tools to keep building. It was not a hackathon trophy. It was infrastructure for the next version of their product to keep moving forward.
Made in Chile, by Chileans, for Chileans
The platform. Bendi. The Legal Wiki. The workshops. The Roundtable. The judges. The mentors. Three Chilean developers built a complete production platform with Claude Code — 53,000+ lines of TypeScript, 97 API routes, 31 migrations — from Chile, for Chile.
This set positive precedents
for the AI industry in Chile and LATAM
It was a turning point.