Senior engineers in your timezone.
Not a timezone away.

Snakebird is a Guatemala-based boutique software firm. We work US hours, communicate in English, and deliver like a team inside your building, at nearshore rates.

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calm body of water near mountain during night time
30+

years combined experience

Fixed bid

No surprises

1 hour

overlap with the US East Coast

Offshore is cheap.
Nearshore is fast.

The real cost of offshore development isn’t the hourly rate. It’s the async lag, the rework cycles, and the miscommunications discovered the next morning. Here’s what the math actually looks like.

Offshore (South Asia / Eastern Europe)

✕8–12 hour timezone gap
✕1 async standup per day maximum
✕Misunderstandings found next morning
✕Senior quote, junior delivery
✕Cheap rate, expensive rework
✕Account managers between you and devs

Snakebird — Nearshore from Guatemala

✓1-hour overlap with US Eastern time
✓Real-time collaboration all business day
✓Problems solved same day
✓Senior engineers on every line of code
✓Competitive rates, no rework surprises
✓You talk directly to who builds it

From conversation to shipped software

No account managers. No project coordinators. No layers.

01
Discovery call — 45 minutes
We listen before we propose. We want to understand the problem, the user, and what success actually looks like. No deck. No pitch. Just questions.
02
Scoping & fixed-bid proposal
We break the project into phases. You get a written scope with a fixed price; no hourly surprises. Typical Phase 1 is 4–8 weeks and $25–50K.
03
Prototype-first delivery
We build working prototypes early so you can course-correct before we go deep. Weekly demos. Real software, not slides.
04
Launch + managed services
We hand off clean, documented code; or stay on as your engineering partner for maintenance, iterations, and new phases. Your call.
F.A.Q.

Things US clients
always ask us


  • How do you handle communication across timezones?

Guatemala City is UTC-6, which puts us 1 hour behind US Eastern and in the same timezone as US Central. We’re fully available during US business hours. You can reach us on Slack, email, or a call; same day, same hour.


  • How do you use AI in your delivery process?

We use AI tools like Claude Code to accelerate development: handling boilerplate, test generation, and documentation. This lets our senior engineers focus on architecture and design decisions.


  • Do you work with US legal and payment structures?

Yes. We work under formal Statements of Work (SOW), sign NDAs, and accept USD via wire or ACH. We’re set up to work professionally with US companies of any size. We’ve been doing it for the past 15 years.


  • Who will actually be working on my project?

Emanuel, Erik, and Diego; the three founders. We don’t subcontract and we don’t put juniors on client work. The people you talk to in the sales process are the people who write your code.

Your next engineering
partner is one conversation away.

We’re currently taking on new US clients. If you have a software challenge, a system that needs modernizing, or a product idea that needs building: let’s talk.

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