Valencia has one of the busiest container ports in the Mediterranean, an agrifood industry that feeds a good part of Europe, the ceramics cluster up the coast around Castellón, and a startup scene that has grown quickly enough to change the character of the city. Four very different clients, and three recognisable projects.
Freight and forwarding companies come with document volume. Bills of lading, arrival notices, certificates of origin, packing lists — arriving as PDFs, as scans, as photographs taken on a phone at a loading bay, and increasingly as structured messages that nonetheless disagree with the paperwork. The engineering that matters is reconciliation and escalation rather than extraction alone: what the system does when the weight on the packing list does not match the weight on the declaration. Our logistics document pipeline is exactly this problem written down.
Agrifood and produce exporters bring forecasting under conditions that make forecasting hard: a perishable product, a growing season, weather, and a customer base that reorders erratically. The honest engagement here begins by establishing whether the historical data can support a forecast at all before anyone builds one — see demand forecasting. Sometimes the answer is no, and saying so early is worth more than a model nobody trusts.
Ceramics and manufacturing send inspection work. Surface defects, tone and calibre sorting, and the specific difficulty that the human graders disagree with each other, which means the labels a model learns from are noisier than anybody admits. Quality inspection covers how we approach that, starting with measuring the disagreement.
And the startups arrive with a different question entirely: not compliance, but whether the feature can be built before the runway runs out. That is a separate engagement shape, described under startups.
