Maximiliano Frank
Gamer and Father in Chicago, Illinois, United States
I build the systems that let operations teams stop firefighting.
I founded MBACIO in 2022, a Chicago IT consulting and managed services firm
working with mid-sized manufacturers and consumer brands that have outgrown
break-fix IT but aren't ready to carry a full-time technology executive. I serve
as fractional CTO for several of them, and I sit on two boards.
Most of my work right now is AI adoption, and most of it is unglamorous. Finding
where automation actually pays. Proving it on one process. Then scaling it with
the governance and security that survive an audit. In practice that means ERP
and e-commerce integration, fulfillment automation, and multi-agent AI systems
that run unattended overnight and hand finished work to a human in the morning.
Before Chicago I spent fifteen years in IT and quality across Argentina's oil,
gas, and food industries. I built one of the largest video monitoring centers in
the country, connected four companies across five countries onto a single voice
platform, and led the ISO program that made my employer the first in Argentina
to earn three Bureau Veritas Gold certificates.
Self-taught, vendor-agnostic, and happiest when a process that used to take
three people takes none.
Old music, good coffee, better whisky, and old books when the tickets are closed.