AI-native by default
Screened for fluency with agentic tooling, LLM APIs, and modern delivery practice, on top of senior fundamentals: React, Node, Java, Python, cloud, and data.
Senior nearshore engineers, embedded in your team.
Most firms send a résumé. We send the assessment. NKE places senior Colombian engineers with US teams building AI, and every candidate runs the same eight-stage vetting pipeline, generated from your job spec.
The problem
Most firms call a phone screen a vetting process.
Every staffing firm now claims their developers "know AI." Almost none can evaluate that claim, because the people doing the screening have never built an agentic system, debugged a RAG pipeline, or shipped LLM features to production. What you get back is a résumé and a recruiter's opinion.
We built the pipeline we could not buy. Every candidate is measured against the same structure, scored requirement by requirement, and interviewed from a script generated for the role. You see the assessment, not just the outcome.
The pipeline
Eight stages. Our system narrows, an architect decides.
Automated stages handle volume and consistency. Every judgement that matters is made by an architect who would have to work with the result. No candidate is ever accepted or rejected automatically.
- 01ApplyCandidate
- 02ScreenOur system
- 03ReviewNKE
- 04ScheduleOur system
- 05InterviewNKE
- 06SynthesizeOur system
- 07ReleaseNKE
- 08InterviewYour team
What reaches your team
You see the assessment, not just a résumé.
Three artifacts per candidate, in the same shape every time, so you can compare people instead of interpreting formats.
Candidate profile
A starred scorecard by competency, a requirement by requirement fit assessment, standout projects, and where the candidate sat on communication and working style.
Standardized resume
The same structure for every candidate: role, dates, client, and what they actually did. Comparable at a glance, with no formatting games.
Commercials
Rate, notice period, availability, vacation, and location, stated up front rather than discovered during negotiation.
What you get
What comes out the other end.
Named individuals, not anonymous "resources." Engineers who cleared the pipeline join your team, your standups, your repo. Month to month, US contract, insurance and IP assignment handled.
Architect-backed
Every placement includes escalation access to an NKE principal architect. When something gets hard, you're not alone with a contractor.
Honest economics
Rates published on this page, not quoted per client. No agency markup you discover at invoice time, and none of the résumé roulette of freelance platforms.
$37–45/ hr
Published, not quoted per client. Roughly a third of a comparable US senior hire, carrying a US contract, insurance, and full IP assignment.
- Commitment
- Month to month
- Entity
- Delaware S-corp
- Insurance
- E&O + cyber
- IP
- Full assignment
Engagements
Not ready to add people? Start with a bounded project.
AI Delivery Assessment
A working audit of your team's AI and LLM delivery: architecture, tooling, prompt and eval practices, cost profile. You get a written roadmap with concrete fixes ranked by effort and impact, plus a staffing plan you can execute with or without us.
Agentic Pilot
One scoped agentic workflow, shipped to production: an NKE engineer plus a principal architect, inside your stack. The pilot is the audition, for the pattern and for the people.
Delivery
In production for enterprise clients.
A sample of the enterprise work we deliver under contract, staffed by engineers who cleared the pipeline.
Enterprise freight logistics
Data pipeline and integration engineering, ongoing since 2026.
Enterprise data orchestration
LLM-assisted delivery under a master services agreement.
Build in public
Our own marketing runs on agents we built.
Magenta is our in-house agent platform. It drafts our content, schedules our publishing, verifies posts actually went live, and reports which post produced which meeting. We write about what breaks and what works, in public.
- 01 Publish
- Agent drafts and schedules the post, UTM-tagged.
- 02 Verify
- Sentinel confirms it actually went live.
- 03 Attribute
- The click carries the post ID to the site.
- 04 Report
- We know which post produced which meeting.
The firm
Built by people who still ship.
NKE is an engineering firm, not a broker. Our partners and principal architects have spent two decades building data and integration platforms at enterprise scale, and they now build LLM and agentic systems full time. That is why the technical screening holds up: the people running it do the work.
Behind every placement sits a fleet of vetted senior engineers across Colombia, a US corporation carrying the contracts, insurance, and IP assignment, and a leadership team that answers when an engagement gets hard.
Book a call
Tell us what you're trying to ship.
20 minutes. No deck, no discovery-call theater. Bring a real problem and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit, and who we'd put on it.
Or email contact@novemberkiloecho.com