forjalabs.co — AI Marketing Operations — Southern Europe

We build the
AI marketing engine.

You run it. / Tú lo diriges.

We design and deploy AI-powered marketing systems — content engines, paid media automation, and intelligence dashboards — so your team can focus on strategy while the machine handles execution.
Diseñamos y desplegamos sistemas de marketing impulsados por IA — motores de contenido, automatización de medios pagados y paneles de inteligencia — para que tu equipo se centre en la estrategia mientras la máquina ejecuta.
12+
AI systems deployed
€4M+
Media spend optimised
8 wks
Avg. time to live system
Avg. output increase
Services / Servicios

Built for brands
that move fast.

01

AI Content Systems

Sistemas de contenido IA

We train brand-voice language models on your existing content, style guides, and editorial history — then build production pipelines that generate, review, and publish on-brief content at scale across every channel and language you operate in.

What's included

Custom brand-voice model fine-tuned on your full content archive
Multi-channel pipeline: web, email, social, paid ads, product copy
Multilingual localisation (ES, EN, PT, FR) with market-specific tone
Human-in-the-loop review layer with configurable approval gates
CMS integration: Contentful, WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, custom
Engagement feedback loop — performance data retrains models quarterly

02

Performance Marketing

Marketing de rendimiento

We rebuild paid media operations with ML-driven automation — from creative production and multi-variant testing to real-time budget allocation across all channels. The result: more spend decisions per day, fewer wasted impressions, and compounding ROAS over time.

What's included

Automated creative variant generation and continuous A/B testing
ML bidding strategy across Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, DV360
Real-time cross-channel budget reallocation engine
Audience segmentation, lookalike modelling, and suppression logic
Multi-touch attribution and incrementality modelling
Live performance dashboard with anomaly detection and Slack alerts

03

Marketing Intelligence

Inteligencia de marketing

Most marketing teams are drowning in data they can't act on. We build unified intelligence layers — connecting your ad platforms, CRM, analytics, and data warehouse into a single source of truth, with AI-generated insights surfaced to the right people at the right time.

What's included

Data pipeline design and build: Fivetran, dbt, BigQuery, Snowflake
Unified marketing data model normalising all sources into one schema
Multi-touch attribution and LTV modelling
Executive dashboards: Looker, Metabase, or fully custom
AI-generated weekly insight reports, auto-delivered every Monday
Anomaly detection with tiered, materiality-based alerting

04

Growth Architecture

Arquitectura de crecimiento

For companies that need the full picture — we design end-to-end growth systems from acquisition through retention and expansion. We audit your current funnel, identify the highest-leverage AI interventions, and build the 12–24 month roadmap that compounds.

What's included

Full marketing infrastructure audit: 40–60 improvement opportunities identified
AI opportunity roadmap with prioritised ROI projections
Funnel instrumentation and conversion rate optimisation programme
CRM automation and AI-driven lifecycle marketing sequences
Team capability assessment and hiring recommendations
Quarterly growth reviews and roadmap updates for 12 months
Selected Work / Casos

Real systems.
Measurable results.

Every project was built from scratch — no off-the-shelf templates, no vendor lock-in. Custom AI systems designed around each client's specific business model, competitive context, and team structure.

AI Content Systems · 2024

Grupo Moda Norte

Fashion Retail · 12 Brands · 4 Markets · Madrid

The challenge

Spain's third-largest fashion group was producing content for 12 distinct brands across Spain, Portugal, France, and Mexico — manually, with an 18-person editorial team that couldn't scale. Brand-voice consistency was degrading as the team grew. Turnaround time was 4–6 days per asset. SEO coverage was patchy across brands, and there was no way to localise content fast enough to react to seasonal trends.

What we built

12 individual brand-voice models, each fine-tuned on 6+ years of brand-specific editorial output, tone guides, and customer communications

Automated CMS pipeline: creative brief → AI generation → senior editor review → publish, integrated into their existing Contentful setup

Multilingual localisation layer covering ES, EN, FR, and PT-BR with automatic market-specific tone and cultural reference adjustment

SEO brief generator pulling from keyword research feeds, automatically creating structured briefs for each content type and brand

Performance feedback loop: engagement signals from GA4, email, and social flow back into quarterly model evaluation and retraining

10×
Content output
−62%
Production cost
+28%
Organic traffic (6 mo)
4d → 4h
Asset turnaround
"

We expected an efficiency gain. We didn't expect the AI to outperform our best writers on engagement metrics within 60 days. The brand-voice fidelity was the real surprise — our editorial director had to double-check who wrote what.

— CMO, Grupo Moda Norte · Madrid

Content performance at 12 months

Avg. time on page+41%
Email click-through rate+33%
Social share rate+19%
Bounce rate (content pages)−24%
Performance Marketing · 2024

Nuverra SaaS

B2B Software · Series A · Barcelona

The challenge

A Series-A SaaS company burning €80k/month on paid acquisition with a flat, declining ROAS. Their in-house team was manually managing creative rotation with no automated bidding. Creative fatigue was compounding every two weeks. The CAC had risen 40% in eight months despite no change in targeting strategy.

What we built

ML bidding automation on Meta and Google, using custom CRM signals (pipeline stage, ICP fit score) as optimisation targets rather than just ad-level conversions

Automated creative brief generation and variant production pipeline — 400+ live ad variants at any given time across all placements

Real-time budget reallocation engine that reallocates spend daily based on marginal ROAS by channel and audience segment

Salesforce integration feeding pipeline quality signals (deal velocity, contract value) back into audience targeting to optimise for revenue, not just leads

−38%
Cost per acquisition
3.1×
ROAS improvement
400+
Live creative variants
Marketing Intelligence · 2023

Meridiem Capital Portfolio

Private Equity · 7 Portfolio Companies · Valencia

The challenge

A PE holding with 7 portfolio companies across retail, hospitality, and services had zero unified marketing visibility. Each company used different tools, naming conventions, and reporting cadences. The group CMO was spending 12 hours every Friday compiling an executive summary in Excel — and it was always out of date by Monday morning.

What we built

Cross-portfolio data model normalising 14 source systems — GA4, Meta, Google Ads, HubSpot, Salesforce, and 4 custom in-house systems — into a single unified schema

Executive Looker dashboard showing consolidated group performance alongside per-company breakdowns, with drill-through to channel and campaign level

AI-generated group marketing brief auto-delivered every Monday at 7am, pulling the 8 most material developments from the prior week across all 7 companies

Anomaly detection with tiered Slack alerts: green (informational), amber (review required), red (immediate attention) based on materiality thresholds set per company

7 → 1
Dashboards unified
−90%
Reporting time
14
Systems connected
Growth Architecture · 2023–2024

Taiga Outdoor

D2C E-Commerce · Outdoor & Adventure · Bilbao

The challenge

A fast-growing D2C outdoor brand had plateaued at €3.5M ARR. Acquisition channels were saturating. Repeat purchase rates were below category benchmarks. LTV was short and declining. The founding team had built a strong product and community but had no systematic approach to lifecycle marketing, and no clear picture of which customers were actually profitable.

What we built

Full marketing audit — 47 improvement opportunities identified across acquisition, conversion, and retention, each with an estimated revenue impact and implementation complexity

AI-driven email lifecycle system: 22 behavioural sequences triggered by purchase history, browsing signals, and predicted churn probability

Predictive LTV model integrated into Facebook and Google targeting, shifting acquisition budget toward audiences predicted to have 3× average 12-month value

UGC content engine: systematised collection via post-purchase flows, AI curation for quality and brand fit, and programmatic distribution to paid and organic channels

Subscription programme design and tech build, with AI-powered churn prediction triggering personalised retention interventions 14 days before predicted cancellation

€3.5M → €6.1M
ARR in 14 months
+67%
Repeat purchase rate
2.4×
Customer LTV
−31%
CAC (paid channels)
"

They gave us a proper roadmap for the first time — not a slide deck, but an actual system. 14 months later we've nearly doubled ARR and our retention metrics are the best in our category. We're now on a retainer to keep building.

— Co-founder & CEO, Taiga Outdoor · Bilbao

Clients / Clientes

What our partners
are saying.

In 8 weeks Forja Labs rebuilt our entire content operation. We went from 4 posts a week to 40 — without adding a single headcount. Quality stayed high throughout. The brand voice consistency across 12 brands is frankly better than what our human team was producing.
CA
Carlos A.
CMO · Fashion Retail Group, Madrid
The paid media automation cut our CPA by 38% in the first month and kept improving every week. But the bigger impact was the intelligence layer — we finally understand which campaigns are actually driving revenue, not just leads. The reporting alone saved us 2 days a week.
SV
Sofía V.
Head of Growth · SaaS Platform, Barcelona
They don't just build tools — they change how your team thinks about marketing. Working with Javier and Lucía felt like having an AI-native CMO embedded in the business. A genuine transformation, not a project. The systems they built are still running 18 months later.
MR
Marco R.
CEO · D2C Outdoor Brand, Bilbao
How we work / Cómo trabajamos

The Forja Labs method.

Every engagement follows a structured, four-phase process engineered to move fast without sacrificing precision. We embed with your team, learn the business deeply, and deliver systems that compound over time — not black-box tools that create dependency.

Cada proyecto sigue un proceso estructurado de cuatro fases. Nos integramos con tu equipo, aprendemos el negocio a fondo y entregamos sistemas que escalan con el tiempo, no herramientas de caja negra que generan dependencia.

Typical timeline

8 – 14 weeks

from first call to live production system

01

Discovery & Audit

Descubrimiento y auditoría

We spend the first two weeks inside your business. We map your current marketing infrastructure, data flows, team workflows, and technology stack. We review existing content, creative assets, and attribution models. We interview key stakeholders across marketing, data, and revenue functions to understand not just the tools, but the decisions being made and the information gaps that get in the way.

Full martech stack audit and integration dependency mapping

Data quality assessment: completeness, consistency, and latency analysis

AI opportunity identification — each ranked by estimated ROI and implementation complexity

Stakeholder interviews and team capability assessment across marketing, data, and engineering

1–2 weeks
02

Architecture & Design

Arquitectura y diseño

We design the full system blueprint before writing a line of production code. This means selecting the right models for each task, defining data pipelines and transformation logic, structuring automation workflows, and designing the interfaces your team will actually operate. We present the architecture to your stakeholders and iterate before building anything.

Model selection rationale and architecture decision records (ADRs)

Data pipeline schemas, transformation logic, and orchestration design

Automation workflow diagrams with defined approval flows and fallback logic

Integration specs for every third-party tool in your existing stack

2–3 weeks
03

Build & Train

Construcción y entrenamiento

We build and deploy the AI systems. For content projects this means fine-tuning language models on your data and building the surrounding editorial pipeline. For performance marketing it means ML bidding logic and creative automation infrastructure. For intelligence it means data pipelines, predictive models, and dashboard layers. All built to spec, all tested in staging, all owned entirely by you.

Model fine-tuning and rigorous evaluation against held-out test sets with agreed quality benchmarks

End-to-end pipeline development with full test coverage and QA protocols

Staged environment testing, stakeholder UAT, and sign-off before production deployment

Complete documentation: architecture diagrams, runbooks, data dictionaries, model cards

4–6 weeks
04

Launch & Optimise

Lanzamiento y optimización

Go-live isn't the end — it's the beginning. We monitor every system through the critical first weeks, tuning parameters and catching edge cases in production. We run structured team training sessions until your team can operate everything independently. We run 30/60/90-day performance reviews against the KPIs defined in Discovery. Most clients move to a lighter ongoing retainer to extend the system and keep optimising.

Monitored production launch with daily stand-ups for the first two weeks post-go-live

Team training programme: recorded walkthroughs, written playbooks, and live Q&A sessions

30/60/90-day performance review against baseline KPIs agreed during Discovery

Optional ongoing retainer: model updates, pipeline extensions, new features, and quarterly roadmap reviews

Ongoing
Team / Equipo

Built by operators,
not consultants.

We're a deliberately small, senior team. Every person who works on your project has shipped AI systems in production — no juniors on delivery, no outsourced builds, no account managers between you and the work. You deal directly with the people who designed the architecture and wrote the code.

Somos un equipo pequeño y senior. Cada persona que trabaja en tu proyecto ha desplegado sistemas de IA en producción. Sin juniors en entrega, sin subcontratación. Trabajarás directamente con quienes diseñaron la arquitectura y escribieron el código.

01

Senior-only delivery

No juniors on client work. Every engagement is staffed by people who have built and shipped AI systems at scale before — and who understand the commercial pressures you're under.

02

Embedded, not advisory

We work inside your tools, alongside your team. We're in your Slack, in your Notion, in your data warehouse. Not emailing decks from the outside.

03

Built to hand over

Everything we build, you own completely. We document obsessively, train your team rigorously, and consider a project complete only when your team can run it without us.

04

Selective partnerships

We take on 3–4 new projects per quarter. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you directly and point you toward someone who is. We'd rather lose a deal than deliver poor work.

JM

Javier Morales

Founder & AI Systems Lead

Criteo · Glovo · Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (MSc)

10 years building performance marketing systems at scale before founding Forja Labs. At Criteo he led the Southern Europe ML team responsible for bid optimisation across €200M+ in annual ad spend, managing a team of 12 engineers. At Glovo he was Head of Performance Marketing during the Series C–D growth period, scaling paid acquisition from €2M to €40M annual spend across 25 markets. He leads AI architecture, model selection, and technical delivery on every Forja Labs engagement and holds a master's degree in machine learning from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

LLM Fine-tuningML BiddingPythonData PipelinesPaid Media Ops
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Lucía Rivas

Head of Strategy & Client Lead

Cabify · Factorial HR · IESE Business School (MBA)

Former Head of Growth at Cabify (pre-IPO) and VP Marketing at Factorial HR, where she built the growth function from zero to $100M ARR across Spain, Germany, and the UK. She has run marketing organisations of up to 40 people and managed agency rosters of 8+ vendors simultaneously. She understands the organisational and commercial realities that determine whether AI projects succeed or fail. She leads all client Discovery and Growth Architecture engagements, serves as the primary relationship lead throughout delivery, and translates technical outputs into business language that executive teams can act on.

Growth StrategyAttributionSaaS GTMTeam DesignCRM Strategy
AM

Andrés Molina

Lead Data & Automation Engineer

Typeform · Adevinta · Universitat Pompeu Fabra (PhD NLP)

ML engineer with a PhD in computational linguistics and natural language processing from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His doctoral research focused on low-resource multilingual fine-tuning — directly applicable to brand-voice model training. Spent four years at Typeform building their internal ML platform and data infrastructure before moving to Adevinta, where he led data engineering for Southern European marketplaces serving 40M monthly users. He designs all data pipelines, fine-tunes the language models, and architects the automation systems that run client marketing operations end-to-end. His two open-source data tools are used by 2,000+ ML engineers.

NLP / LLMsdbt · BigQueryPythonAirflowSpark
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Emailhola@forjalabs.com
OfficeCalle Velázquez 28, 2ª planta
28001 Madrid, España
ResponseWithin 1 business day
LanguagesEnglish · Español · Português
AvailabilityAccepting 2 new projects for Q3 2025

What to expect on the call

  • We'll have reviewed your website, active ads, and public metrics beforehand
  • We'll identify 2–3 specific, named AI opportunities in your current marketing setup
  • We'll give you a rough sense of scope, timeline, and budget range
  • You'll leave with clear next steps — whether you work with us or not

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