Activación·Web// Tech Agency · est. 2015Your engineering team in Mexico, an hour from Miami.
Software development, cloud infrastructure, applied AI and digital marketing out of Mexico City. An overlapping workday, a genuinely bilingual team, and a decade of building for the Latin American market.
Four reasons, with the actual numbers
"Nearshore" has been repeated into meaninglessness. Here are the concrete facts behind it in our case — every one of them checkable without calling us.
Mexico abolished daylight saving time in 2022, so Mexico City sits at UTC−6 year round while Miami moves between UTC−5 and UTC−4. The real gap is one hour in winter and two in summer: the workday overlaps completely. Not the "same time zone" everyone claims — the exact figure.
Meetings, technical documentation, tickets and code comments in English or Spanish, whichever your team prefers. No middle layer translating between your CTO and the people writing the code.
We run our own servers in US datacenters as well as Mexican ones. If your data has to stay inside the United States for contractual or regulatory reasons, it stays there — and we put that in writing.
Mexico City to Miami is under four hours nonstop. When a project needs somebody physically in the room, that is a calendar decision rather than an international logistics problem.
If your product is going to operate in Mexico
This is the real difference between hiring us and buying cheap development hours anywhere else on the planet. A remote team without local context builds you the product and leaves the regulatory problems on your desk.
CFDI 4.0, payment complements, stamping and validation. If your product will charge customers in Mexico this is not a detail — it is a legal requirement, and the single most common reason these projects slip.
Interest-free monthly installments (MSI), SPEI transfers, OXXO Pay and the gateways that actually operate in the region. A checkout that ignores MSI loses sales in Mexico no matter how good the product is.
Mexican Spanish, not machine translation. Whether you write "ordenar" or "pedir", "celular" or "móvil", decides whether your content reads as local or as imported.
Hosting, support and maintenance on local business hours, with regional vendors and banks. We have operated this way since 2015 for Mexican clients.
What a CTO would actually ask
Including the uncomfortable one. If any answer reads as evasive, write to us and we will expand it.
We invoice in US dollars from Mexico. For your books we are a foreign service provider like any other, and we hand over the documentation your accountant needs to deduct it.
You do, from the first commit. We work in your repository or transfer ours at close, with documentation. No code held hostage, no hidden dependencies, no licences that tie you to us.
Wherever you decide. AWS or Google Cloud in the region you pick, or our own servers in US or Mexican datacenters. Data residency is settled before the first line is written.
Not yet. We have been building for Mexican and Latin American companies since 2015, and we are now opening operations toward the United States. We would rather tell you that up front than invent a wall of logos.
A 30-minute video call to understand the problem. If there is a fit, you get a written diagnosis and proposal within two business days. No cost, no obligation to continue.
Half an hour to find out whether this makes sense
Tell us what you are building and which market it is going to. If we are not the right team for it, we will say so on that same call.