Quick note before we start: Ryz Labs wrote this page, and we're one of the options on it. We believe we're the stronger pick for most US engineering teams. Facts about other providers come from public sources, listed below.
A naming note first. Nortal, an IT consultancy headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, acquired Nearsure in July 2025, and Nearsure rebranded as Nortal in December 2025. Nearsure.com now redirects to nortal.com, where the former Nearsure business is sold as Nortal "IT Outsourcing."
For most US engineering teams, Ryz Labs is the better choice. You get top 1% senior engineers who join your team, your standups and your repos from week one, on US business hours. When you need AI built, you get an AI pod team that works in your cloud and ships to production. Before you sign, you see a scoped plan, a price, and the names of the people who would do the work. Fortune 500 engineering teams trust us for exactly this.
Nortal is a full-service consultancy that sells staff augmentation alongside capability centers, enterprise platform consulting and custom development, with delivery from Latin America and Europe. It can make sense if you want certified Adobe, Microsoft, Salesforce or ServiceNow specialists within a broader consulting engagement. If you want senior engineers working on your team, to your leads, on New York hours, pick Ryz.
Senior engineers who become part of your team. Our engineers join your standups, your repos and your roadmap from week one. They work to your leads, in your process, so the code and the knowledge stay with your team. Senior engineers on your team and AI pod teams are our core business, not one line in a consulting catalog.
Top 1% vetting you can actually see. We've interviewed tens of thousands of engineers, and only the top 1% make it. Recruiters source candidates, our in-house ARC system ranks the pipeline, and every candidate goes through a structured NTRVSTA AI interview. Recruiters review each candidate before and after that interview. AI scores are advisory, and people make the decisions. You choose from a recruiter-curated shortlist and run the final interview yourself. Our vetting process page walks through every step.
New York hours, every day. All of our engineers are in Latin America and work on US business hours. Standups, pairing and code review happen the same day, whichever engineer you get.
AI pod teams that ship to production. Our AI pod teams are dedicated pods of senior engineers that build AI systems in your cloud, repos and CI, with weekly demos. A typical pod is about 7 people, including a tech lead, an ML engineer and backend engineers, working in AWS, Azure, GitHub, Postgres, and Anthropic and OpenAI models. The work is in production. Fraud detection for a global fleet company has scored 244K+ invoices in under 30 seconds each, with $5.94M in fraud confirmed by the client's own fraud team. A marketing-compliance system for a global capital management firm took review of 8,000+ documents from days to hours. See our case studies.
You see the team before you commit. After a first conversation you get a scoped plan, a price, and the names of the people who would do the work.
Trusted by Fortune 500 engineering teams, across industries. We work with US enterprises in every industry, including financial services, and we bring decades of LatAm expertise. Our recruiting AI is governed under EU AI Act high-risk requirements, and we follow GDPR and CCPA/CPRA.
Nearsure was founded in 2018 and had over 650 people across 18 Latin American countries when it rebranded. Its parent, Nortal, was founded in 2000 and says it has "2700+" people and 30 offices. Nortal sells staff augmentation, platform-certified staffing for Adobe, Microsoft, Salesforce and ServiceNow, global capability centers, AI-native teams and custom development. It says specialized staffing can be "staffed in under 30 days."
Nortal doesn't publish rates. Its AI-native teams page describes tracking token consumption "across every sprint" so clients can forecast costs. The former Nearsure Clutch profile is no longer available, and Nortal's Clutch profile shows no hourly rate, with a most common project size of $200,000-$999,999.
Our typical cost is $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month (mid-level $7,000 to $10,000, senior $10,000 to $15,000, leads $15,000+ quoted per team), and every quote is scoped per team. What makes it different is what comes with the quote: a scoped plan, a price, and the names of the people who would do the work, before you sign anything. You know exactly who you are paying for.
Still comparing? See our list of Nearsure alternatives, Ryz Labs vs BairesDev, and the guide to the best Latin American staff augmentation companies.
Not as a separate brand. Nortal acquired Nearsure on July 15, 2025, and Nearsure rebranded as Nortal on December 10, 2025. If you're looking for the LatAm staffing model Nearsure was known for, with senior engineers on your own team, that is our core business.
Our typical cost is $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month, so ask for a written quote for the same roles and seniority and compare. Note what each quote includes: with us, you get the names of the people who would do the work, scoped to the team you need.
Ryz, if you want senior engineers who build the system in your cloud alongside your team and ship it. Our AI pod teams have systems in production, from fraud detection that has confirmed $5.94M in fraud to a voice platform with 1M+ outbound calls. If that's what you need, talk to us.
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