Consulting · Outsourcing · AI

Experienced engineers for your team.

francos.tech is the consulting and outsourcing arm of Francos Digital Solutions. We add experienced engineers to your team, including the people who bring AI and machine learning into your product, or help you make the technical decisions that are expensive to get wrong.

Brazil · English and Portuguese

What we build.

Our engineers work on every part of a product, or only on the part where you need help.

Websites and apps

Products for the web and for phones, from the first idea to the app stores.

  • Websites and web apps
  • iPhone and Android apps
  • Internal tools and dashboards

AI and machine learning

Assistants that understand plain language, models trained on your own data, and the checks that keep them accurate once real customers use them.

  • AI assistants and search over your documents
  • Reading documents and images
  • Training and running custom models

Integrations

Connecting your product to payment providers, banks and the services your business already uses.

  • Payments
  • Banks and financial data
  • Third-party services

Cloud and operations

Hosting on the most common cloud providers, set up as infrastructure as code so any environment can be rebuilt.

  • The most common cloud providers
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Monitoring and support

Data and automation

The data behind the product, organised so reports are right and the manual steps around it run on their own.

  • Reports and dashboards
  • Data pipelines
  • Automating manual work

Rescue and fixes

When something keeps breaking and nobody knows why, we find the cause and fix it.

  • Problems in production
  • Disaster recovery
  • Slow systems
  • Taking over old systems
Outsourcing and consulting

Ways to work with us.

Add our engineers to your team, or bring us in to advise. You keep the roadmap; we keep the team complete and replace anyone who is not a good fit.

One experienced engineer working full time on your product, as part of your team.

Monthly contract

Squad

2 to 5 people

A small team with its own lead that takes care of a whole part of your product.

Monthly contract · we handle hiring and cover

Consulting

On demand

Advice on architecture, costs, security and hiring, and reviews of the work your team already has.

Monthly hours or a fixed-scope project

Working hours that overlap with the US and Europe, in English and Portuguese.

How it starts.

From the first call to someone working inside your team.

  1. Call

    We learn about your product, your team and what is missing.

  2. Shortlist

    You receive matching profiles and interview the people who will do the work.

  3. Trial

    The first 3 months are a trial. Stop at any time if it is not working.

  4. Monthly

    A simple monthly contract, with a report on what was delivered.

How we work.

The same habits whether we join your team or advise it.

  • Payments
  • Credit and financial data
  • Regulated gaming
  • Insurance
  • Healthcare
  • Education
  • Hospitality
  • Retail
  • Reports

Everything is documented.

Each project explains how to run it, how it is published and why the main decisions were made.

Infrastructure as code.

Every environment can be rebuilt from scratch, and every change is reviewed before it goes live.

Costs are stated up front.

A change that adds a monthly bill says how much before anyone approves it.

Tested before release.

Automated checks run before anything reaches your customers.

AI is measured, not guessed.

Every model and assistant is tested against real examples before release, and a person reviews the answers it is not sure about.

Your data stays yours.

Data used to train or guide a model stays in your accounts and is never used to train anyone else's.

Questions people ask.

Short answers first, then the detail.

Who is francos.tech?

francos.tech is the consulting and outsourcing arm of Francos Digital Solutions, a company in Brazil that works in English and Portuguese. Its sister sites are francos.solutions, for marketing, and francos.io, our software house.

How does outsourcing with you work?

You add one of our engineers, or a small squad with its own lead, to your team on a monthly contract. You keep the roadmap; we keep the team complete and replace anyone who is not a good fit.

Is there a trial period?

Yes, the first 3 months are a trial, and you can stop at any time if it is not working. After that it is a simple monthly contract, with a report on what was delivered.

Do your working hours overlap with ours?

Yes, our working hours overlap with the US and Europe. We work in English and Portuguese.

Can you advise us without joining the team?

Yes, as consulting: advice on architecture, costs, security and hiring, and reviews of the work your team already has, in monthly hours or a fixed-scope project.

Do your engineers work with AI and machine learning?

Yes. They build AI assistants, search over your documents and custom models trained on your data, and test them on real examples before your customers see them.

Tell us about the team or the advice you need.

A 30-minute call. You leave with a plan and an estimate of the effort, whether or not you hire us.

Or write to contact@francos.tech

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