Agentic Engineering · Nearshore
Engineers who multiply. AI-driven, human-accountable.
We deploy senior engineers who built products before AI, and now build them with AI. They embed in your team, work your hours, and own what reaches production — not just the tickets they’re assigned.
The AI Maturity Ladder
Every engineering partner says it uses AI.
Here’s how to check.
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Rung 1
AI-assisted
Individual engineers use copilots and chat in the editor. Typing gets faster. How the team ships doesn’t change.
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Rung 2
AI-augmented
The team’s workflow is redesigned around AI. Tasks go to agents, and each engineer reviews what comes back.
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Rung 3 · Where we work
Agentic engineering
AI agents do a large share of the implementation inside a defined workflow, while senior engineers own the definition, review, and release of every change.
We work at the top rung, and help teams climb to it.
What to ask a partner that says it uses AI →The Caliber
The engineers
you'd try to hire.
Former Icalia engineers are now shipping at the companies shaping the industry — and brought that bar back home. It's who we hire. It's who we keep.
Shipping at
Process
From first call to
embedded engineer.
Tell us what
you need
Share your tech stack, team structure, and timeline. We map your culture and requirements in a single 30-minute call.
Meet your
engineers
We present senior developers matched to your stack and team. You run the interviews. Your standards decide who joins.
Start
building
Your new team members join your workflows, standups, and tools from day one. No ramp-up theater — they ship.
How We Operate
Agentic engineering,
governed by senior judgment.
The agent brings the speed. The people and the system around it bring the safety. Fourteen years of engineering practice, encoded into how we vet, embed, and ship.
Five gates before
a candidate reaches you.
Every engineer is ID-verified before any client interview, and fewer than 0.4% of applicants are accepted. You still run the final interviews. How we vet →
Embedded.
Accountable.
Engineers join your standups, code reviews, and on-call from day one. We handle growth plans, performance reviews, and continuity behind them, so the knowledge stays with your team.
Ship more.
Finish it.
First versions in production in under a week. From 10 to hundreds of changes per week on live systems, each one reviewed by a senior engineer before it ships.
Fast is easy. Finished is what matters.
What You’re Paying For
Your partner uses AI.
What are you paying for?
Senior judgment plus AI leverage, measured in outcomes.
Not the lowest rate.
Senior, experienced engineers in your time zone. We compete on seniority and continuity, not on the hourly rate.
Not bodies in seats.
Continuity, management, and senior advisory behind every engineer, so the knowledge stays when people grow.
Not more code.
Reviewed changes that reach production. When code costs almost nothing to write, someone senior has to decide what should not be written at all.
Engagements bill time and materials. Cost becomes a result, not the pitch. See engagement models →
Selected Work
Work that speaks
for itself.
RTS
A Monterrey-based product squad embedded with a Central Texas oil-and-gas operator. Five years of modernization, an NPS of 5/5, and a successful acquisition — with 3x ROE on technology.
Point B
Embedded product squads across multiple consultancy tracks. Generated 40%+ value-add revenue on top of Point B’s existing rates.
Everlance
8 senior engineers placed alongside a San Francisco team. The whole team stayed through the acquisition.
Nearshore, Done Right
Mexico is your
gateway south.
Austin to Monterrey is a two-hour flight. Same business hours. Shared cultural fluency. And from Monterrey, the whole of Latin America's engineering talent comes into focus.
Credentials
The receipts,
not just the pitch.
YC alum co-founders
Founding team previously backed by Y Combinator. We know how your investors think.
First Docker-certified in LatAm
The first consultancy in Latin America to earn Docker certification. Infrastructure fluency built in.
GitHub Partner · LatAm
Recognized GitHub Partner in Latin America. Deep roots in the developer ecosystem.
5,000+ Open Source stars
Active OSS maintainers. Our public repos have earned 5K+ cumulative GitHub stars.
95% retention over 5+ years. Founders who’ve built, shipped, and sold — now investing that experience in your team.
the year we started shipping software
"We started in 2012 believing great software teams can be built anywhere. Fourteen years later, the engineers who built products before AI are the ones building best with it."
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