01 / Senior by default
No junior dumping
Every pod is led by a principal-level engineer. Mid-levels exist; juniors don't bill against your project.
AI software consultancy for founders who can't hire a research team
Ship the AI
your competitors
only talk about.
We're a senior engineering team that builds AI into the software SMB founders already run — and trains your people to keep building after we leave. Nearshore. Time-zone aligned. Senior by default.
· LATAM nearshore· Principal-led pods· Fixed-price discovery
engagement_plan.md
Discovery Sprint · Week 1–2
- 01Map the 3 workflows AI will actually move
- 02Prototype the one with the clearest ROI
- 03Hand back a build plan you could ship without us
Length
2 weeks
Outcome
Roadmap + prototype
Where we work
- 3PL & Logistics
- Manufacturing
- Food & Beverage
- B2B SaaS
- Distribution
- Warehouse Ops
Stacks we live in
- TypeScript / Node
- Python
- Postgres
- Azure / AWS
- LangGraph / MCP
- Claude / OpenAI
- Terraform
How we work
A team you'd hire if you could find them.
Most SMB founders don't need a "digital transformation partner." They need senior engineers who already know how to put AI in production — and a process that doesn't burn six months before you see anything ship.
02 / Nearshore, same hours
Costa Rica & Guatemala
Your standup is their standup. No 14-hour ticket cycles, no broken-English handoffs.
03 / AI in the loop
We code with agents
Our engineers use AI coding tools daily and teach yours to do the same. The leverage compounds long after we leave.
04 / Coach, then exit
Designed to leave
Engagements end with your team running it. We measure success by what you ship without us in month four.
What we do
AI work, the parts that actually move the business.
Seven practices, one team. We're hired for one, asked back for the rest.
Lead practice
We find the three or four workflows where AI changes the unit economics, prototype them in weeks, then put them in production behind your auth, your data, your governance.
Discover
Where AI actually pays off
Prototype
Working agent in 2 weeks
Operate
Governance + handoff
Practice 02
AI agentic coding
We code with agents and train your team to do the same. Throughput goes up; defects don't.
Coaching engagementPractice 03
Nearshore engineering pods
A senior pod that joins your standup, ships in your repo, and bills predictably. Costa Rica and Guatemala. Real English. STEM-trained.
- Pods of 3–6, principal-led
- Month-to-month after pilot
- Your tooling, your security model
Practice 04
Cloud migration, the surgical kind
We move the systems that block your roadmap — not the ones that don't. Zero-downtime patterns, real cost modeling, no two-year programs.
Practice 05
Team coaching & modernization
Direct coaching for your engineering leads. Lean delivery, modern practices, AI in the loop. We rebuild the system that produces the software.
Practice 06
IoT & warehouse automation
For founders moving atoms. Edge to cloud, event-driven control systems, AI on top. Picks faster, errors lower, visibility everywhere.
Practice 07
Contractor placement, no engagement required
Already know what you're building? You don't need a consulting relationship to build it. We'll connect you directly with the people to do the work — vetted individual contractors in the US and across our LATAM network, sized to what you actually need.
- Existing bench, not sourced from scratch
- You approve every match
- We run onboarding, coaching and check-ins
How to engage
Three ways in. One that's right for you.
Most founders don't know what a consulting engagement should look like. So here's exactly what ours look like and what you get. We scope the cost with you on the first call.
Tier 01
Discovery Sprint
Two weeks. We map your AI opportunity, prototype the highest-ROI one, and hand back a build plan you could execute without us.
Format
2-week engagement
- Opportunity map
- Working prototype
- Build plan + estimates
- 30-min readout to your board
Tier 02
Build Pod
A senior nearshore pod embedded in your team. Ships features in your repo. Monthly. Cancel any time after pilot month.
Format
3-person pod, scale up or down
- Principal lead + 2 senior engineers
- Daily standup in your hours
- Monthly value review
- Coaching of your team included
Tier 03
Coaching Retainer
For founders with engineers already. We coach them into AI-native delivery, modern practices, and faster shipping — no new headcount.
Format
Per engineering team
- Weekly working sessions
- Architecture & PR reviews
- AI tooling rollout
- Monthly delivery metrics
Case studies
What it looks like when it works.
3PL Logistics14-week build pod
From 8% inventory errors to 99.2% — without replacing the WMS.
A three-person pod for 14 weeks. We built an AI-augmented picking layer on top of the existing warehouse system, added IoT for predictive maintenance, and handed the whole thing back to the in-house team.
Approach
Augment, don't replace
Handoff
In-house team runs it
Results
Inventory accuracy99.2%
Fulfillment cycleSame-day
Operating cost−35%
Time to first AI feature in prod28 days
Mid-size Manufacturing · 6-month pod
A 30-year-old ERP, modernized in slices
No big-bang replatform. We carved out procurement and production planning, dropped AI agents inside, and watched margin lift before the rest of the system was even touched.
75%
Process auto.
5×
Decision speed
+18%
Op. margin
F&B Distribution · 9-month engagement
End-to-end modernization at distribution scale
Cloud architecture, ML pipelines, modern delivery practices — and a team coached to keep going. The pod left in month nine; the velocity didn't.
99.95%
Uptime
98.5%
Delivery acc.
4×
Team velocity
Who you'd be working with
A small partnership, on purpose.
We're a small, senior engineering partnership with people in the US and Latin America. We started it to make working with engineers friendly and easy to begin, with the reliable delivery of a big consultancy and none of the big-firm overhead.
At our size, the work bends to what you need instead of to billable-hour targets or a staffing shuffle: you approve every engineer we put forward, and they stay. Our annual turnover is under 5%, against roughly 20% across the industry. We can move fast when you need it and let a project run at its natural pace when you don't, because we think that makes the quality better and the process far more enjoyable.
We put AI to work inside the software you already run, and we place and coach nearshore engineers who work in Central Time alongside your team. We build in the practices that keep software dependable: architecture and code review, security and governance, and clear handoffs.
- Principal-led pods. The senior engineer on your first call is in your code review on week six.
- LATAM nearshore. Costa Rica and Guatemala. Your hours, your standup, your repo.
- Designed to leave. Engagements end with your team running it. That's the success criterion.
founder photo
[Founder name]
Founding Partner · Principal Engineer
Two-line bio. Years shipping production software, what you build now, the engineers you've taught to ship with AI. Replace with a real photo and bio before launch — the single highest-converting trust signal on this page.
Questions worth asking
The things founders always ask on the first call.
We don't have an AI use case yet. Is that a problem?
Most founders don't. Discovery Sprint exists for exactly this. You'll leave it with two or three concrete opportunities, ranked by ROI, plus a working prototype of the one we'd build first.
How is nearshore different from offshore?
Same hours, same continent, same standup. Costa Rica and Guatemala — strong STEM programs, near-native English, cultural fit that makes "embedded pod" actually mean embedded.
Do you sign DPAs / handle our security review?
Yes. We work inside your repos, your cloud, your auth model. SOC2-aligned controls; happy to walk your security team through them on the first call.
What if we want to bring this in-house later?
That's the goal. Every engagement is structured to leave your team capable of running it. We measure ourselves on what you ship without us.
Start a conversation
30 minutes. No deck.
Tell us where you are. We'll tell you whether we're the right team, what an engagement would look like, and what it would cost — on the call, not after three follow-ups.