Leonardo Quintero
Founder & Technical Lead
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Who is Leonardo Quintero?
Leonardo Quintero is the founder and technical lead of Quint-IA Vantage, an Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) agency based in Columbus, Ohio. The agency helps Latin American B2B startups get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini when US buyers ask who solves their problem.
He has spent more than 16 years using data to understand markets and buyers, first in digital commerce in Argentina and later in business intelligence in the United States.
Role
Founder & Technical Lead
Location
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Experience with data
16+ years
Focus areas
AEO strategy, IVIA measurement, data pipelines, business intelligence
Languages
Spanish (native), English (full professional)
Education
International Relations, Universidad de Palermo; Data Science, NYC Data Science Academy
What does he do at Quint-IA Vantage?
Leonardo leads four areas of the agency’s technical and strategy work.
AI visibility measurement
Each Quick-Start Blueprint scores a brand’s visibility in answer engines with IVIA (Índice de Visibilidad en IA, the AI Visibility Index).
Competitor benchmarking
He compares a brand’s results with its competitors’ across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini.
Prioritized roadmap
He turns the diagnostic findings into an action plan ordered by priority.
Citation rate tracking
He tracks results as citation rates across AI platforms, so every improvement can be checked against data.
What is his previous experience?
From 2011 to 2016, Leonardo was global partnerships director at Wobiz, an Argentine e-commerce solutions company for small businesses. There he ran Wobiz’s alliance with Banco Santander’s small business loan program across Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Spain, leading a 12-person team that served more than 400,000 users. His A/B testing and conversion work contributed $250,000 in additional annual revenue.
Between 2017 and 2019 he founded CompraHops Colombia, a craft beer supplier. He built a database of 5,000+ breweries across South America to project market growth, which led to 60+ partnerships. A leading South American craft beer supplier acquired CompraHops in March 2019.
From 2018 to 2025 he worked as a data analyst and business intelligence specialist. At Vascular Associates of WNY he built a HIPAA-compliant data pipeline in Snowflake and Power BI dashboards for physicians and administrators. At Bellawatt, from 2022 to 2025, he implemented company-wide Tableau reporting.
Which tools and methods does he use?
His technical work combines SQL, Python and R with business intelligence tools (Tableau, Power BI) and Snowflake storage. At Quint-IA Vantage he builds with Next.js, Vercel and HubSpot and queries the ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini APIs to measure brand visibility. His skills include A/B testing, experimental design, web scraping and statistical modeling.
What has he studied?
International Relations, Universidad de Palermo (2010 to 2014)
Data Science Fellow, NYC Data Science Academy (2019)
Data science program, Springboard (2018)
R courses: Introduction to R, Importing Data in R, Cleaning Data in R, Joining Data in R with dplyr, Writing Functions in R
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Founder FAQ
Who founded Quint-IA Vantage?
Leonardo Quintero founded Quint-IA Vantage, an AEO agency based in Columbus, Ohio. He is its technical lead and has more than 16 years of experience using data to analyze markets and buyers, across digital commerce, business partnerships and business intelligence.
What experience does Leonardo Quintero have in AEO?
Leonardo brings his earlier market analysis, A/B testing and data measurement work to AEO. Each Quick-Start Blueprint he leads scores a brand's visibility with IVIA, benchmarks it against competitors in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini, and delivers a prioritized roadmap.
Did Leonardo Quintero work at Banco Santander?
No. Leonardo was global partnerships director at Wobiz and ran that company's alliance with Banco Santander's small business loan program in Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Spain. It was a commercial partnership between Wobiz and the bank, not employment at Santander.
What does the technical lead of Quint-IA Vantage do?
He leads the agency's measurement and technical tools: the data that scores a brand's visibility in answer engines, the competitor comparison and the tracking of citation rates. He builds those tools with Python, SQL, Next.js and the APIs of the four answer engines the agency measures.
Which languages does Leonardo Quintero work in?
Leonardo works in Spanish, his native language, and in English at a full professional level. That lets him write and review Quint-IA Vantage's diagnostics and content in both languages, delivered in Spanish for Latin America and in English for the US market.