Nearshore software and AI development in Latin America
Latin American engineering talent that ships on your timezone
US and global companies hire Nerai Labs because we work the same hours you do, write and speak fluent English, and ship production systems instead of slide decks. We are a Latin America software and AI studio building custom SaaS, AI automation, RAG chatbots, workflow automation, AI agents and AEO. Our founder built systems at Pomelo, MercadoLibre, Mercado Pago and Scale AI, and our team has shipped pipelines handling 50K+ daily executions.
Your timezone, not a 12-hour gap
Latin America overlaps US business hours almost completely. Standups happen live, code review turns around the same day, and a question at 10am gets an answer by 10:15, not tomorrow morning. No more queuing blockers for an overnight handoff.
Fluent English and shared business culture
Our engineers write specs, PRs and Slack messages in clear English and join client calls without an interpreter. We understand US product expectations, agile cadence and direct feedback, so onboarding takes days, not quarters.
Senior cost without senior overhead
You get senior Latin American engineers at a fraction of a US in-house loaded cost, with no recruiting cycle, no benefits administration and no long-term headcount risk. We scale a focused pod up or down as the roadmap changes.
We ship the full stack of modern AI
Custom SaaS, AI automation, RAG chatbots, workflow automation, AI agents and AEO for AI search visibility. One studio covers product engineering and applied AI, so you are not stitching together three vendors.
Built by engineers who ran systems at scale
Our founder, Tomás Marengo, is a Founding Engineer at Rank Prompt and previously built at Pomelo, MercadoLibre, Mercado Pago and Scale AI. That experience with payments, marketplaces and AI data infrastructure shapes how we architect for reliability, not just demos.
A studio, not a freelancer or a body shop
You work with a team that owns outcomes end to end: architecture, delivery, code review and handoff. We staff a small senior pod per project rather than reselling junior hours, so the people on your calls are the people writing the code.
Production track record, measured in throughput
We have shipped workflow automation and AI pipelines handling 50K+ daily executions. We design for the boring parts, observability, retries, cost control, that keep AI systems running after launch instead of breaking in week three.
Questions
What does nearshore mean for a US company working with Nerai Labs?
Nearshore means our Latin America team works your business hours instead of a distant offshore timezone. You get real-time collaboration, same-day code review and live problem solving, with the cost advantage of building outside the US market.
How much timezone overlap do you actually have with US teams?
Most of Latin America sits within one to three hours of US time zones, so we overlap the large majority of a US workday. Daily standups, pairing sessions and incident response all happen live rather than through overnight handoffs.
Is the language barrier really a non-issue?
Yes. Our engineers operate in fluent English across calls, documentation, pull requests and async chat. We have worked directly with US product and engineering teams, so communication is direct and technical without a translation layer.
What can Nerai Labs build for us?
We build custom SaaS products, AI automation, RAG chatbots, workflow automation, AI agents and AEO to improve your visibility in AI search. We handle both the product engineering and the applied AI, so a single studio can take a project from idea to production.
How do you engage, and how fast can we start?
We staff a small senior pod scoped to your roadmap, typically starting within a couple of weeks. There is no recruiting cycle or headcount commitment on your side; we scale the team up or down as the work changes.
