{"name":"Applied AI in Guatemala — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Guatemala, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/guatemala","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Guatemala","slug":"guatemala","iso2":"GT","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"counts":{"entries":19,"deployments":13,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":2,"regulation":4,"industries":6,"countries":1,"linked":19},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guatemala","role":"Government planner","org":"Secretaría de Planificación y Programación de la Presidencia (SEGEPLAN)","text":"Guatemala's SEGEPLAN now runs Copiloto SNP, offline AI in public sector planning that verifies and enters National Planning System data. No internet means no token charges, so officials handle sensitive files directly. It also unifies quantitative and qualitative report variables, trimming duplicated effort as agencies adopt AI for government administration.","date":"2026-08-29","source":"https://lahora.gt/nacionales/kjordan/2026/08/29/segeplan-integra-una-ia-sin-internet-para-apoyo-en-ingreso-de-datos-del-sistema-nacional-de-planificacion/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guatemala","role":"Judge","org":"Organismo Judicial / Corte Suprema de Justicia","text":"BDG Sociedad Anónima has been tasked with building AI cassation sentencing software for Guatemala's Supreme Court, following a Q89 mil 570 award from the Organismo Judicial that covers as many as 350 appeal files across a three-month span. Instead of deciding outcomes itself, the platform sifts through case records and turns out structured draft judgments, needing hookup with systems already running inside the judiciary. Magistrates alone hold the last word, fixed under Acuerdo 93-2026, leaving this AI-drafted court judgments tool as a support role only.","date":"2026-07-06","source":"https://lahora.gt/investigacion/diego/2026/07/06/la-casacion-el-ultimo-recurso-partira-de-la-inteligencia-artificial-la-csj-contrata-plataforma-y-evita-entrar-en-detalles/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guatemala","role":"Forensic specialist","org":"Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Forenses de Guatemala (Inacif)","text":"Guatemala's National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif) has for the first time identified a deceased person using IdentIA, AI tattoo matching software that analyses and classifies tattoos for body identification. A 24-year-old woman had lain unidentified in the Guatemala City morgue for about a month until the system matched her tattoos to her mother's ante-mortem interview; fingerprint comparison then confirmed her identity.","date":"2026-07-02","source":"https://emisorasunidas.com/nacional/2026/07/02/inacif-identifica-victima-herramienta-inteligencia-artificial"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guatemala","org":"Policía Nacional Civil (PNC)","text":"Guatemala's National Civil Police (PNC) put 25 officers through a five-day AI for criminal analysis course with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), covering dark web methods, part of a push on artificial intelligence applied to crime analysis. SVET, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the National Institute for Strategic Security Studies also took part.","date":"2026-05-11","source":"https://dca.gob.gt/noticias-guatemala-diario-centro-america/pnc-inicia-capacitacion-en-dark-web-e-inteligencia-artificial-para-combatir-ciberdelitos/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Guatemala","role":"Retail sales adviser","org":"CEMACO","text":"Guatemalan hardware, home and decoration chain CEMACO has launched MACO, an AI shopping assistant that helps customers choose purchases. Shoppers reach the virtual adviser through in-store digital kiosks, WhatsApp or the chain's website.","date":"2026-04-14","source":"https://emisorasunidas.com/empresas/2026/04/14/cemaco-presenta-a-maco-su-innovador-asistente-virtual-de-inteligencia-artificial"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guatemala","org":"Corte Suprema de Justicia / Organismo Judicial","text":"A new 32-article rule confines AI use by judges in Guatemala to assistive, administrative roles only. Acuerdo de Presidencia 93-2026 bars the Corte Suprema de Justicia from letting algorithms generate rulings alone, leaving evidence weighing and verdicts strictly to magistrates under this judicial AI regulation.","date":"2026-03-24","source":"https://www.chapintv.com/noticia/csj-y-oj-disponen-acuerdo-sobre-el-uso-de-la-inteligencia-artificial-para-jueces-y-magistrados/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guatemala","role":"Tax officer","org":"Superintendencia de Administración Tributaria (SAT)","text":"Guatemala's SAT will introduce AI tax filing through its FEL 3.0 electronic invoicing platform, generating pre-filled ISR (income tax) and IVA (value-added tax) declarations from 2026. SAT chief Werner Ovalle said the system enables risk management and automated cross-checking, building on FEL 2.0 analytics that already caught invoice splitting and anomalies. This AI-generated tax declarations layer extends existing detection tools rather than replacing them.","date":"2026-02-04","source":"https://lahora.gt/lh-economia/hloarca/2026/02/04/con-la-fel-3-0-se-usara-ia-y-se-podran-hacer-declaraciones-del-isr-y-del-iva-este-2026/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guatemala","org":"Congreso de la República de Guatemala","text":"AI deepfake regulation Guatemala takes shape through Iniciativa 6657, the Ley de Protección Digital contra Contenidos Falsificados por Inteligencia Artificial (PRODIGI), filed by Julio Portillo of the CABAL bloc. It sets fines up to Q500 mil and three to six years' imprisonment for deepfake creators, requires an AI-generated content watermarking label plus 48-hour removal of flagged posts, and lets the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones fine platforms up to Q2 million. Congress has not passed it.","date":"2025-12-03","source":"https://lahora.gt/nacionales/ypena/2025/12/03/julio-portillo-propone-iniciativa-de-ley-para-multar-hasta-con-q500-mil-contenido-falso-hecho-con-ia/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Guatemala","role":"Economist, financial analyst","org":"Banco de Guatemala (Banguat)","text":"AVI, an AI virtual assistant economic data Guatemala tool from Banguat, sits inside Indicators GT, resolving plain-language queries across over 12 million financial records. It sketches charts instantly, stays live 24 hours daily, and toggles Spanish and English on any device — an AI-powered data-query tool for the public.","date":"2025-11-25","source":"https://lahora.gt/lh-economia/hloarca/2025/11/25/banguat-se-suma-a-la-transformacion-digital-con-nueva-plataforma-de-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guatemala","org":"Superintendencia de Bancos (SIB)","text":"Guatemala's Superintendencia de Bancos (SIB) has brought in AI regulation in banking through Resolución JM-98-2025, issued 30 October 2025, giving the country its first legal definition of artificial intelligence. Article 22 obliges banks and financial institutions to build governance structures — policies, procedures and human review — around decisions made by automated systems, under the broader Reglamento para la Administración del Riesgo Tecnológico. The Junta Monetaria's rule, replacing the 2021 framework, pulls Guatemala's banking sector toward global norms for AI-related risk management.","date":"2025-10-30","source":"https://carrillolaw.com/2025/11/06/nuevas-disposiciones-en-pro-de-la-seguridad-tecnologica/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guatemala","role":"Police officer","org":"Municipalidad de Guatemala","text":"The Municipality of Guatemala City equipped 50 cameras with AI surveillance cameras at its C4 Monitoring Centre, paying Intelligent Camera Unification, Sociedad Anónima 89,849.76 quetzales over 12 months. Bundled crowd-counting tools spot dense gatherings, a function the vendor pitches for identifying protests or strikes — an AI crowd detection use worrying advocates, given Guatemala lacks any law protecting personal data or assembly rights.","date":"2025-10","source":"https://www.ojoconmipisto.com/guatemala-videovigilancia-sin-control-ni-ley-datos/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guatemala","org":"Comisión Presidencial de Gobierno Abierto y Electrónico (GAE)","text":"GAE, Guatemala's Comisión Presidencial de Gobierno Abierto y Electrónico, is leading a participatory Guatemala AI strategy process, backed technically by UNDP, to shape the Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ENIA). Three phases structure it: Phase 1, AI Landscape Assessment (AILA), August-October 2025; Phase 2, co-building vision and priorities, March-May 2026; Phase 3, drafting roadmap, oversight rules and tracking mechanisms, July-October 2026. Guatemala's national AI policy remains unfinished.","date":"2025-08-01","source":"https://participacionciudadana.gob.gt/processes/IA"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guatemala","role":"Judicial officer","org":"Organismo Judicial de Guatemala","text":"For 87 mil 770 quetzales, Guatemala's Organismo Judicial (the Judicial Branch) acquired MEIA-Amparos, a tool built for AI amparo case analysis, contracting BDG Sociedad Anónima to deliver it. Powered by the Gemini API, it scans amparo filings to pull out core arguments and cited law, sketches case timelines, raises urgent-alert flags and drafts proposed rulings judges can review. A single web portal hosts these amparo review functions.","date":"2025-07-11","source":"https://lahora.gt/investigacion/diego/2025/09/07/organismo-judicial-compra-una-inteligencia-artificial-para-agilizar-el-analisis-de-amparos/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Guatemala","role":"Insurance agent, customer","org":"Aseguradora General","text":"Aseguradora General added voice-message support to Sofía, its AI insurance quoting assistant in Guatemala, joining the existing WhatsApp and text channels in version 5.0. Customers now speak natural-language requests to get auto and medical expense insurance quotes in under a minute. This virtual insurance assistant has handled over 60,000 auto quotes and 5,000-plus medical quotes since debuting in 2024 as the country's first such tool.","date":"2025-06","source":"https://tvaztecaguate.com/nota-empresarial/2025/06/17/sofia-la-asistente-con-ia-de-aseguradora-general-ahora-con-tecnologia-5-0/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Sales & Commercial","region":"Guatemala","role":"Real estate agent","org":"ÍNTEGRO (Corporación Aicsa)","text":"Corporación Aicsa's ÍNTEGRO arm introduced Alana, Guatemala's first AI real estate agent, fielding calls, arranging bookings and messaging buyers across commercial, residential and hospitality deals. This AI-powered property agent launch drew 9.8 million views plus almost 15 mil followers on @alanasliving within two months, a figure the company reports itself.","date":"2025-04-10","source":"https://quintopoder.com.gt/2025/04/11/integro-alana-ave-las-americas-y-la-era-de-la-ia-inmobiliaria/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Guatemala","role":"Doctor, patient","org":"MAPFRE Guatemala","text":"MAPFRE Guatemala relaunched its AI telemedicine platform MedicOnline on 2 April 2025: a smartphone scan of vital signs precedes each remote doctor's visit. This AI-based vital sign scanning flags heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol risk, and type 2 diabetes risk beforehand, free and available 24/7 for MAPFRE's insured.","date":"2025-04-02","source":"https://quintopoder.com.gt/2025/04/04/mapfre-mediconline-telemedicina-con-ia-revoluciona-la-salud-en-guatemala/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Technology & Software","region":"Guatemala","role":"Accountants, auditors","org":"Ciancoders","text":"Quetzaltenango-based Ciancoders has released FinanzIA, marketed as Guatemala's first AI accounting platform built on automated bookkeeping technology. The software classifies documents, reconciles bank records, generates SAT-compliant ledgers and calculates shadow-declaration tax. Ciancoders claims an 80% cut in processing time and 15 new local tech jobs, unverified figures.","date":"2025-03-21","source":"https://quintopoder.com.gt/2025/03/30/talento-digital-de-quetzaltenango-lanza-la-primera-solucion-de-contabilidad-con-ia/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guatemala","org":"Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública (INAP)","text":"Civil servants in Guatemala can now enrol in AI training for civil servants through Guatemala's National Institute of Public Administration (INAP), one of 49 fresh entries in its catalogue spanning diplomas, postgraduate degrees and shorter programmes. Delivered entirely online across 48 hours over two months, the AI in public administration course walks learners through core concepts, available tools, ethical questions and hands-on applications intended to sharpen government transparency and efficiency. Enrolment starts 17 March 2025 ahead of a May launch.","date":"2025-03-03","source":"https://dca.gob.gt/noticias-guatemala-diario-centro-america/inap-impulsa-evolucion-digital-en-la-gestion-publica/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guatemala","role":"Small business owner","org":"Superintendencia de Administración Tributaria (SAT)","text":"Dictation replaces typing for Guatemala's smallest businesses under Superintendencia de Administración Tributaria's (SAT) new AI voice recognition for invoice issuance feature in its APP FEL app. This voice-activated electronic invoicing option lets simplified VAT-regime contributors speak billing details aloud, a shift officials expect will lower mistakes and strengthen compliance.","date":"2025-01-16","source":"https://www.soy502.com/articulo/sat-implementa-emision-facturas-medio-voz-101902"}]}