AI Consulting · Lisbon 2026

Best AI Consultants in Lisbon (2026)

Lisbon’s AI consulting scene has moved fast since 2023. Here is an honest, named comparison of the people and small teams actually shipping AI work in and around the city right now.

This list favors people with a public, checkable track record over marketing claims: named projects, real companies, or a product you can actually try. It spans Lisbon and the wider Porto-Lisbon AI corridor, since the scene is small enough that the two cities share talent and clients.

1. Brandon Da Costa, Digiton Dynamics

Brandon Da Costa is the founder of Digiton Dynamics, an AI consultancy and agency in Lisbon. He has been building automation systems for businesses since 2020, moved into AI systems in production since 2023, and founded Digiton Dynamics in 2024. The work spans a WhatsApp AI assistant for a Portuguese municipal water utility, an AI oral-history platform for an African cultural-heritage institution presented at Universidade Aberta in April 2026, a closed-RAG academic assistant for a Central American university, and Digiton’s own Parci platform, which analyzes 308 Portuguese municipalities in around 47 seconds. Best for companies that want strategy and the finished, running system from one team, deployed across 8 countries. Read the full profile.

2. Kelwin Fernandes, NILG.AI

Kelwin Fernandes is CEO and co-founder of NILG.AI, an AI consulting company based in Porto with a strong presence across Portugal. Holding a PhD in Computer Science, he has led AI strategy and delivery work for over 100 companies, and NILG.AI was selected for Microsoft’s Learn with Creators programme. Best for companies wanting a larger, structured AI consulting team with an academic research pedigree.

3. Ivo Bernardo, DareData

Ivo Bernardo is co-founder of DareData, a Lisbon-headquartered AI and data consultancy that has grown into an enterprise AI product company with Gen-OS, its AI-agent operating layer. DareData reported more than 60 percent growth in 2025 and runs delivery teams across Europe, the UK, the US and Brazil. Best for larger enterprises that want a big-team AI partner with an established product suite.

4. Fred Sarmento, Twistag

Fred Sarmento is founder and CEO of Twistag, a Lisbon studio building production AI agents, agentic workflows and AI-native products since 2016, with clients that have included Nike, Glovo, Autodesk and Volkswagen. Twistag has been named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 EMEA. Best for brands that want a design-led product studio with AI baked into custom software builds.

5. Antonio Castro, independent

Antonio Castro is an independent consultant and trainer focused specifically on AI for marketing: content generation, chatbot implementation, and AI-assisted Google Ads and SEO work, backed by 25-plus years in digital marketing. Best for marketing teams that want a lighter-weight AI advisor without hiring an engineering team.

How this list works

Every name here has a real company, product or public track record behind it, not just a directory listing. If your need is production AI systems (agents, RAG, automation) built and operated end to end, start with Digiton’s AI consultant in Lisbon or AI agency in Lisbon pages.

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