Lisbon, Portugal — September 17, 2026 — Velv, a technology company specializing in nearshore engineering, AI consulting, and AI engineering, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. Velv is the second Portuguese company to reach this status.
The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program for partners to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI. It brings together partners with deep industry expertise, delivery capabilities, and customer relationships while equipping them with resources, enablement, and support to help enterprises adopt OpenAI frontier models and products and turn them into measurable impact.
As an OpenAI Select Partner, Velv will continue working with OpenAI to help organizations build, deploy, and scale AI solutions responsibly and effectively. This work will help organizations put GPT-6 Astra to work across more of their business, using deeper reasoning and computer use to complete complex workflows and deliver finished work.
For Velv, the Select Partner designation builds on work already underway across client delivery, its engineering teams and its dedicated AI Practice. Velv is actively building with OpenAI technologies, from integrating the OpenAI API into enterprise applications and platforms to adopting Codex and agentic development workflows across software engineering. Its teams are developing AI-powered platforms, enterprise knowledge and memory systems, conversational applications, agent orchestration, information extraction and comparison systems, and applications that integrate large language models directly into business processes and decision workflows.
"AI is changing the way we build technology at a pace unlike anything we have experienced before. Becoming an OpenAI Select Partner is an important milestone for Velv, but more importantly, it supports our ability to help clients turn that pace of innovation into something real: products, platforms and solutions that create measurable value. We are already building extensively with OpenAI technologies across client projects, our engineering workflows and our own R&D, and we believe we are still at the very beginning of what is possible," said Nuno Godinho, CIO and Partner at Velv.
From AI experimentation to production
Velv works with organizations across Europe, combining nearshore engineering teams with AI consulting and AI engineering capabilities.
Its AI work spans the full lifecycle, from identifying where AI can create meaningful business value to designing, engineering and deploying production solutions. This includes AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), enterprise knowledge and memory systems, LLM-powered applications, workflow automation, evaluation and AI-enabled software engineering.
Alongside client delivery, Velv has established a dedicated AI Practice, bringing together specialists focused on AI engineering, applied research and product development. The team develops its own AI technology and products while continuously experimenting with emerging capabilities across the OpenAI ecosystem. Current areas of R&D include organizational memory, agentic systems, agent orchestration and new approaches to turning fragmented enterprise knowledge into usable intelligence.
What OpenAI Select Partner status means for Velv
Being part of the OpenAI Partner Network gives Velv access to OpenAI resources, enablement and support as it continues to expand its capabilities and customer deployments.
For Velv, Select Partner status represents the next step in a transformation already taking place across the company: bringing AI into the technology it builds, the way its engineering teams work, and the solutions it delivers to clients. AI is increasingly becoming part of Velv’s software engineering lifecycle itself, with teams adopting agentic development tools such as Codex to support how software is designed, built, tested and delivered.
Looking ahead, Velv plans to continue investing in AI talent, expand its OpenAI-related capabilities and accelerate the development of AI solutions and products, helping organizations move beyond experimentation and translate AI ambition into real business outcomes.
And this is just the beginning.
Learn more about the OpenAI Partner Network: openai.com/business/partners
