What "nearshore" usually means, and what we do instead
The nearshore market is mostly staff augmentation: a provider in a cheaper time zone rents you developers, you manage them, and the knowledge leaves when the contract ends. That model works when you already have an architect and a backlog. It fails when what you need is someone to understand your operation and design the system.
Nexus Elite AI is an engineering boutique in Barcelona. We are two people, both on your project, with no juniors and no subcontractors. We don't rent hours: we analyse the company, decide with you what to build, and build it. That's also why we never work with more than seven clients at a time.
Why Barcelona
- Time zone: Central European Time gives a full overlapping working day with the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands, and the morning with the US East Coast.
- EU law: we work under the GDPR, which matters when the system touches personal data of European customers or employees.
- Euros: contracts and invoices in EUR, with no currency conversion built into the price.
What we build
From the office to the shop floor: ERP and CRM built on the way you actually work, mobile and desktop apps, customer and supplier portals, integrations between the programs you already use, logistics and warehouse software, PLC programming, machines that talk to each other, and shop-floor records of what was produced, when and at what cost. And AI agents inside that chain, deciding what happens next with your criteria. If it doesn't exist, we build it; if it exists and doesn't talk to anything else, we connect it. More in custom software.
The code is yours
Everything is written from scratch for your company: full ownership, no per-user licence, and no one's permission needed to change it. If one day you continue with another team, you take the whole system with you.
What it costs
We publish reference figures. For a B2B company of 30 to 80 employees, with four to six operational departments and two or three critical pieces of the stack to replace, a reasonable first phase costs between €40,000 and €120,000. The first module is live and connected to real operations between 8 and 14 weeks after signing. Keeping the system alive — improvements, supervised AI agents, functional evolution and monitoring — runs between €5,000 and €15,000 a month depending on complexity. The full breakdown is in how much custom software costs.
What it will demand from you
- Opening up your internal costs, margins and prices per customer.
- Your team working with two systems at once while the old one is switched off.
- Documenting the exceptions that today live only in someone's head.
- Patience: it's the most expensive thing we do and the slowest to show results.
How we start
Always the same way. Day zero: an NDA signed before you show us anything. Then the Nexus team analyses your operation and delivers a report with the exact changes, prioritised by impact on your P&L. Then you decide. Nexus Elite AI is an engineering boutique in Barcelona: two people, no juniors, no subcontractors, and never more than seven clients at a time. Apply and we reply within 24 business hours; if there is no fit, we tell you in writing.
Frequently asked questions
Is Nexus Elite AI a staff augmentation or dedicated team provider?
No. We don't rent developers. We analyse your operation, design the system and build it ourselves: two founders, no juniors and no subcontractors, with a maximum of seven clients at a time.
Who owns the intellectual property?
You do. The code is written from scratch for your company, with full ownership and no per-user licence. If you continue with another team, you take the whole system.
How much does nearshore custom software development cost with you?
For a B2B company of 30–80 employees replacing two or three critical pieces of its stack, a first phase runs between €40,000 and €120,000, with the first module live in 8–14 weeks. Keeping it alive costs €5,000–15,000 a month. We quote after the NDA and the analysis.
What time zone do you work in?
Central European Time, from Barcelona. That gives a full shared working day with the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands, and shared mornings with the US East Coast.