AI-Native Development · Miami

AI-Native Development
in Miami

Agentic tooling as the primary build method. Architecture and review stay human.

We build for founders in Miami using agentic tools — Claude Code as the primary driver — as the actual engineering method, not a demo trick. The difference from vibe coding: architecture, data model, and security boundaries are decided by a senior engineer, evals run as a CI gate instead of a vibe check, and every commit gets reviewed for the failure modes AI-generated code tends to ship. We're also the team founders call to fix the codebases that skipped this discipline — see Vibe Code Rescue.

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Engagement shape

From

$3,000

Flat price, quoted after 30-min call

Timeline

5–10 days

First production deploy

Senior engineer, named

Day 1

Code in your GitHub

Retainer, equity, lock-in

How this works

One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.

One senior engineer plus AI agents now ships ai-native development that used to need a four-person team. Same code quality, half the cost, three-week timelines instead of three months. Built for pre-seed to Series A founders in Miami who need to ship before the next round closes.

The local read

Why ai-native development is hard in Miami

Miami's pre-seed deal count passed LA and Boston in Q1 2026. The hiring market hasn't caught up. Local agencies are split between Web3 specialty shops billing hourly and general consultancies feeding logistics companies. Neither ships venture-grade product on a seed timeline.

We do. One named senior engineer, Eastern Time, builds on Solana, Base, or whatever stack your investor expects. Bilingual i18n by default for LatAm products. Bridge or Dinari for stablecoin rails. Flat-price quote in 24 hours after a discovery call. Code in your GitHub from commit one.

Miami's accelerator scene has real backing now — 500 Global runs an 8-week Growth Program here, and Endeavor Miami (backed by JPMorgan Chase) runs cohort-based programs for South Florida founders. Capital comes from Fuel Venture Capital (~$550M AUM across a $300M Flagship Fund II), Krillion Ventures and TheVentureCity. The numbers back up the hype: Miami-area startups raised $4.13B across 376 deals in 2025, up 49% from 2024, with fintech ($691M) and Web3 ($243M) both posting real volume in the first half alone. The clearest signal of where the city is headed: Palantir moved its global headquarters from Denver to Aventura, just north of Miami, in February 2026. That kind of anchor tenant pulls senior engineering talent with it — good for the ecosystem's long-term depth, but one more well-funded competitor bidding for the hires you need right now.

Miami's corporate anchor tenants got a lot more concrete in 2025-2026: Citadel and Citadel Securities broke ground on a $2.5B, 1.7-million-square-foot Brickell headquarters tower in March 2026, and both Amazon and Google expanded their Miami offices in the same window — Amazon to roughly 76,000 sq ft in Wynwood, Google to about 45,000 sq ft on Brickell Avenue, more than quadrupling its prior footprint. eMerge Americas acquired Miami AI Hub in mid-2025 and launched the Gold Coast Tech Accelerator two months later, running 8-week fintech and dual-use/defense tracks. The talent pipeline is catching up too — Miami Tech Works has graduated 15,000+ students into tech-adjacent roles since 2021 through apprenticeships with Miami Dade College, FIU and the University of Miami. That's real momentum, and also real competition for the same senior engineers you're trying to hire.

Crypto and Web3 and LatAm fintech is where Miami's founders actually are, and it's why ai-native development is one of the builds we ship here on repeat.

Hiring one senior engineer here is a ~$270K year-one outlay and a 60–90 day search. Our ai-native development engagement starts at $3,000 with a first deploy in 5–10 days.

Did you know · Miami

Miami's tech population grew roughly 38% from 2020 — the fastest of any major US metro.

Time zone

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Eastern Time. We overlap with your team in Wynwood, your VCs at Founders Fund Miami, and the LatAm customers your bilingual founder needs.

Sectors in Miami

Crypto and Web3LatAm fintechB2B SaaSHealthtechReal estate tech

Stack we use

Claude CodeCursorTypeScriptNext.jsCI-gated evals

What you actually get

Concrete deliverables.
Live in 5–10 days.

No discovery phase that bills for itself. No Figma-only delivery. Every item below is something you can open, click, and ship to a user.

Scoped build (feature, internal tool, or MVP slice) shipped via agentic-driven implementation, human-reviewed every commit

Architecture, data model, and auth boundaries decided by the engineer — never delegated to the agent

Evals and automated checks as a CI gate, so AI-authored code can't regress silently

Full commit history — you see what was agent-drafted versus hand-written, not one opaque squash commit

Code review pass specifically hunting the failure modes AI-generated code tends to ship

Why us

Why founders in Miami pick us for this

We're the team founders call when AI-native went wrong (see Vibe Code Rescue) — we know exactly which shortcuts not to take

Agentic tooling used transparently, with a senior engineer as the architecture and security backstop, not a rubber stamp

Evals and CI gates from day one, not bolted on after the first production incident

Same flat-price, your-code-from-commit-one terms as every other engagement — no markup for the tooling

FAQ

Common questions about ai-native development
in Miami

How fast can you start?

Most builds begin within seven days of the first call. We don't sell discovery — we go from problem statement to first deploy on the same day-one timeline.

Is the price really flat?

Yes. After a 30-minute call we send a single number and a scope you can accept or reject. No hourly billing, no change-order games. If we underestimate, we eat it.

Isn't this just vibe coding with extra steps?

No — the difference is who owns architecture and review. Vibe coding means accepting whatever the agent outputs. AI-native means the agent drafts, a senior engineer decides the data model, auth boundaries, and what actually ships, with evals as a CI gate instead of a vibe check.

Which tools do you use?

Claude Code as the primary driver for most of the codebase, with Cursor for targeted work when it fits better. Tool choice adapts to the codebase — what doesn't change is that architecture and code review stay human.

Who owns the code?

You do, from commit one. The repository is created in your GitHub org. Infrastructure is provisioned in your cloud account. We don't host your stack on ours and we don't lock you in.

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