For founders and engineering leaders at growing companies
ZedLabs is a senior engineering partnership in the US and Latin America. We scope, build and hand over custom software and AI for growing businesses, and we staff and coach engineering teams that need more. We can usually start within a few weeks.
How it goes
First call
Free
Outcome
Code, docs and a runbook, yours
What we do
01 / Build
Reporting and workflow tools, customer portals, internal applications, or a modern replacement for the system holding you back. We agree the scope and the price up front, build with you in the loop, and hand it over with the documentation to run it.
Talk
A free first conversation
Plan
Written scope and estimate
Build
Fixed price, you review as we go
Yours
Code, docs and a runbook
02 / AI
We add AI to the software and workflows you already run, build agents where the economics hold up, and show your engineers how to ship faster with AI tools without quality slipping.
Talk about AI03 / Staff
Senior engineers in the US or nearshore, working your hours in your repo. We place them on your team, or run the team and deliver to you.
04 / Coach
An architect for teams that don't have one, and hands-on coaching for the engineers you do. We design the solution; your team or ours builds it.
What we build
Reliable numbers pulled from the systems you already have, in one place.
Purpose-built tools to replace the spreadsheets and email chains your operations run on.
Marketing sites and self-service portals that take work off your team.
The applications your business runs on, built around your process instead of a vendor's.
Retire outdated software and technical debt in stages, without a big-bang rewrite.
Agents, assistants and automation added to your current software, with the guardrails to run them.
Move on-prem and legacy systems to Azure or AWS with a plan for cost, security and uptime.
Edge-to-cloud control systems and AI for faster picks and fewer errors.
How we work
01 / Senior by default
A principal-level engineer leads each engagement and stays through delivery.
02 / Nearshore, your hours
Our nearshore engineers work your business day, join your standup and commit to your repo. Strong English, no overnight handoffs.
03 / AI in the loop
We build with AI coding agents every day, so a small senior team ships what used to take a larger one. Code review, automated tests and security checks stay in place. We teach your engineers the same practice.
04 / Yours to own
Code, documentation, deployment setup and a repeatable way to change it. We stay involved when you want us, not because you have to.
Stacks we work in daily
Who you'd be working with
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.
Day to day, that means engineers who do architecture and code review, take security and governance seriously, and document as they go. Our nearshore engineers work Central Time, in your standup and your repo.
Questions worth asking
Most people don't. We start with a conversation about what's slowing the business down, then bring back a plan and estimate for the one or two things worth doing first, with AI where it pays.
Our engineers use AI coding agents every day, which is why a small senior team can take on work that used to need a larger one. Everything still goes through code review, automated tests and security checks before it ships, and we coach your team in the same practice if you want it.
When the outcome is clear, as a fixed price from an estimate you've agreed. Anything outside that scope is quoted and agreed with you before we start it.
The code, the documentation and a repeatable way to run and change it, so your team can own it. We're happy to keep helping, but you're never locked in.
Same hours and the same standup. Our engineers are in Costa Rica and Guatemala, working Central Time with strong English. You work with them directly, not through a ticket queue.
Yes. We sign DPAs and NDAs, work inside your repositories, cloud accounts and access model, and can walk your security team through it on the first call.
That's the goal. We build it so your team can run it, and we coach them where they want help. We measure ourselves on what you can do without us.
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