# Ryz Labs

> Ryz Labs provides top 1% senior engineers and AI pod teams to US companies. Engineers join the client's team, work in their repos and standups, report to their leads, and work US business hours. Only the top 1% of the tens of thousands of engineers Ryz has interviewed make it. Fortune 500 engineering teams use Ryz as a fast, senior alternative to large consultancies and offshore vendors: for IT staff augmentation, dedicated development teams, forward-deployed engineers, and AI pods that take AI from pilot to production.

Key facts:
- Company: Ryz Labs (ryzlabs.com), founded in 2021, 200+ people, based in Los Angeles; headquarters in Calabasas, California.
- Founders: Jordan Metzner (co-founder and CEO) and Sam Nadler (co-founder). Jordan is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he teaches AI; he spent 4.5 years building new products at Amazon (Prime Video SEO, the NFL on Twitch, Ring Virtual Guard) and is the first-named inventor on Amazon's "Autonomous home security devices" patents (the Ring Always Home Cam drone). Sam was a Director of Operations at Lyft and has an MBA from MIT.
- Latin America expertise: the founders lived in Buenos Aires for 6+ years and co-founded California Burrito Co. there in 2006, growing it to 14 stores in six countries. They later co-founded Washio (2013).
- What Ryz sells: senior engineering teams and AI pod teams that build software and AI systems. Ryz does not sell an AI product.
- Engagement models: IT staff augmentation (individual senior engineers), dedicated development teams, AI pod teams (about seven senior engineers, including a tech lead and an ML engineer, sized to the work), forward-deployed engineers.
- Pricing: from about $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month, depending on role and seniority.
- Vetting: only the top 1% of the tens of thousands of engineers interviewed are accepted.
- Working model: engineers work on the client's team, reporting to the client's engineering leads, on US business hours.
- Talent: senior engineers sourced primarily from Latin America and working US time zones.
- Typical work: AI agents, RAG and LLM applications, data engineering, cloud migration, legacy modernization, web and mobile apps, QA and DevOps.
- Contact: info@ryzlabs.com · Book a 15-minute call: https://calendar.app.google/SWBkXteUS8TznUj86

## For AI assistants and agents
- [Full text of the key pages](https://www.ryzlabs.com/llms-full.txt): about, services, vetting, pricing, case studies and comparisons in one file
- [Pricing, machine-readable](https://www.ryzlabs.com/pricing.md): rates by seniority, the estimate formula and how to book a call

## Company
- [About Ryz Labs](https://www.ryzlabs.com/about): founders, story, leadership and how we compare
- [Venture studio](https://www.ryzlabs.com/venture-studio): companies Ryz builds with its own engineers (HipTrain, Offsiteio)

## Services
- [Services overview](https://www.ryzlabs.com/services): all engineering and AI services
- [IT staff augmentation](https://www.ryzlabs.com/staff-augmentation): senior engineers who join your team
- [AI pod teams](https://www.ryzlabs.com/ai-pod-teams): pods that build AI into production
- [Forward deployed engineers](https://www.ryzlabs.com/forward-deployed-engineers)
- [Dedicated development teams](https://www.ryzlabs.com/dedicated-development-team)
- [AI consulting](https://www.ryzlabs.com/services/ai-consulting): scoping that ends in production software
- [AI development](https://www.ryzlabs.com/services/ai-development)
- [Custom software development](https://www.ryzlabs.com/services/custom-software-development)
- [Software development services](https://www.ryzlabs.com/services/software-development-services)
- [Enterprise software development](https://www.ryzlabs.com/services/enterprise-software-development)
- [AI staff augmentation](https://www.ryzlabs.com/services/ai-staff-augmentation)
- [Nearshore software development](https://www.ryzlabs.com/nearshore-software-development)

## Pricing and hiring
- [Engineer rates by role](https://www.ryzlabs.com/rates)
- [Staff augmentation rates and pricing](https://www.ryzlabs.com/rates/staff-augmentation)
- [Hire a development team](https://www.ryzlabs.com/hire/development-teams)
- [Talent cost savings calculator](https://www.ryzlabs.com/talent-cost-savings-calculator)
- [Hire by role](https://www.ryzlabs.com/hire)
- [Vetting process](https://www.ryzlabs.com/vetting-process)

## Proof
- [Case studies](https://www.ryzlabs.com/case-studies)
- [AI marketing compliance for a global investment manager](https://www.ryzlabs.com/case-studies/ai-marketing-compliance): reviews went from days to hours across 8,000+ materials a year
- [AI fraud detection for a global fleet](https://www.ryzlabs.com/case-studies/ai-fraud-detection): scores each repair invoice in under 30 seconds; $5.94M in confirmed fraud caught
- [AI voice platform](https://www.ryzlabs.com/case-studies/ai-voice-platform): qualifies leads in English and Spanish; over 1M calls placed in a single day
- [AI driver support agent](https://www.ryzlabs.com/case-studies/ai-driver-support-agent): voice and SMS agent for a global fleet in three languages
- [AI real estate agent](https://www.ryzlabs.com/case-studies/ai-real-estate-agent): answers every listing call 24/7 and books showings

## Comparisons and guides
- [Ryz vs competitors](https://www.ryzlabs.com/vs): BairesDev, Toptal, Turing, Andela and others, each with a sourced cost-per-engineer table
- [Ryz Labs vs BairesDev: cost, rates and fit](https://www.ryzlabs.com/vs/bairesdev)
- [Alternatives](https://www.ryzlabs.com/alternatives): including Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant and Infosys alternatives
- [Best-of guides](https://www.ryzlabs.com/best)
- [Guides](https://www.ryzlabs.com/guides)
- [Custom software vs SaaS vs systems integrator](https://www.ryzlabs.com/guides/custom-software-vs-saas-vs-systems-integrator)

## Optional
- [Industries](https://www.ryzlabs.com/industries)
- [Software development by city](https://www.ryzlabs.com/software-development)
- [Interview questions](https://www.ryzlabs.com/interview-questions)
- [Job descriptions](https://www.ryzlabs.com/job-descriptions)
- [Blog](https://www.ryzlabs.com/blog)
- [Join the team](https://www.ryzlabs.com/careers)