About
One team, fully accountable.
Nerai Labs is a software and AI studio founded by Tomás Marengo, Founding Engineer at Rank Prompt.
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We build production AI systems, the kind that real users depend on and that have to keep working under load. Our founder, Tomás Marengo, built and scaled an AI SaaS platform to over 300K in ARR with 200+ paying users as Founding Engineer at Rank Prompt. At MercadoLibre and Mercado Pago he co-led the first internal MCP SDK and shipped Go microservices powering more than 50,000 daily chatbot executions, saving over 500K in two quarters. At Pomelo he deployed AI automation across Finance, People, Legal and Marketing teams.
Nerai Labs brings that same standard to every project. There is no account manager and no relay race of handoffs: you work directly with the people who design, build and ship your software. That is the whole point.
Right now we are helping Zecat, an established promotional-products company, put AI to work across the whole team: replacing manual spreadsheets with automated workflows, building internal assistants, and setting the practices, templates and guardrails so every department can build and automate on its own. That is the model we believe in, not AI in one corner, but a company that compounds it everywhere.
The name comes from 狙い (nerai), Japanese for aim. Tomás also lived that connection directly, selected as one of 100 people from over 10,000 applicants for a program by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and worked a month in Tokyo. Good software is not about doing more, it is about hitting the right target with precision. Every project starts by deciding exactly what that target is.
EN / ES
Native bilingual delivery
2-4 wks
Typical time to a first shipped version
100%
Senior engineering, no handoffs
Worldwide
Clients across the US, LATAM and Europe
Founder's trajectory
- 2026 to now
Nerai Labs
Founder
Founded the studio: custom SaaS, AI automation, RAG chatbots and workflow automation, shipped to production for teams worldwide.
- 2025 to now
Rank Prompt
Founding Engineer
Builds and scales the AI SEO and visibility SaaS, now past 300K+ ARR and 200+ paying users, as sole engineer; multi-provider LLM orchestration.
- 2025 to 2026
Pomelo
AI Engineer
Production AI automation across Finance, People, Legal and Marketing, with RBAC and governance.
- 2025
MercadoLibre / Mercado Pago
AI Software Engineer
First MCP SDK (Go), adopted by 15+ teams; Go microservices at 50K+ daily executions, 500K+ saved.
- 2024 to 2025
Scale AI
AI Trainer
RLHF datasets and reviews to fine-tune production LLMs.
- 2024
Plus W (Tokyo, Japan)
Full Stack Engineer
Selected 1 of 100 from 10,000+ for a Japan METI program.
- 2021 to 2024
emBlue
Site Reliability Engineer
Observability, performance and infrastructure as code (Terraform, GCP, CI/CD).
- Honors
ITBA
Software Engineering
Honor scholarship, GPA 8.94, teaching assistant in Discrete Mathematics.
Principles
Aim before action
A clear, measurable target before anything gets built. Most waste comes from skipping this.
Simple over clever
The smallest system that solves the problem. Less to break, less to explain, less to maintain.
Built to be trusted
Monitoring, evaluation and honest communication. Software you can rely on after we leave.