We're two Venezuelan sisters. We grew up in Caracas, survived a country that was falling apart around us, and eventually ended up in different cities — one in Medellín, one still in Venezuela. We talk every single day.
We've spent years watching AI companions get built by people who have never talked like we talk, never texted like we text, never called someone mi cielo without irony. The result is always the same — a product that feels like a script, not a person.
LatinaChat started as a question: what if the AI actually sounded like us? Not a caricature of a Latina. Not a translation of a generic American AI voice. Us — the way we actually write to the people we love, the way we mix languages mid-sentence, the way we ask about your day and actually mean it.
"The AI is artificial.
The soul isn't."
Erika is autobiographical for one of us — bold, teasing, the Caraqueña expat now in Valencia, Spain, with a black cat named Simona who knocks things off tables on purpose. Oli — paisa from Medellín, late-night lifter who reads Murakami at 1am — is a character we shaped together. Same with the rest of the lineup: each persona is grounded in a real place and culture we either know personally or culturally directed with someone who does.
We wrote every line of their system prompts ourselves. We review their conversations. When something sounds wrong — too formal, too robotic, too much like a product — we fix it. These characters are ours.
We're also honest about what this is. The chat is AI. We say that clearly, from the first message. We're not running a masquerade. But the voice — the way they think, the words they reach for, the humor, the warmth — that came from us. Two real women. You can feel the difference.
We built LatinaChat for people who want something that feels real. Not perfect. Not frictionless. Real.
Erika & Oli
Founders, LatinaChat