About

We sell the estimate. Not the hours behind it.

Koombea was founded in Barranquilla, Colombia in 2007 and has put more than 200 apps in market since. Today the work ships through AI Pods: a scope you approve in story points, delivered in two-week cycles, at a price that does not move if we sized it wrong.

Why the company is built this way

We billed for time for most of the company's history, which means we know the arithmetic from the inside. When a vendor invoices hours, a project that runs long is not a bad outcome for the vendor. Nobody has to behave badly for that to hurt you. The incentive is in the contract before anyone shows up.

So we took the meter out. A story point is delivered, tested functionality. We size the work, you approve the size, and the price holds even when the estimate turns out to be wrong. That commitment is only survivable because AI-First delivery cut the cost of being wrong far enough that we can carry it instead of you.

How AI Pods work

Origins

Koombea was founded in 2007 in the tropical city of Barranquilla, Colombia. Today we work from Barranquilla and from Naples, Florida, with a remote-ready team spread across many other places.

Our name comes from a Colombian dance, the Cumbia, where participants move in short sprints, just like in a typical Agile app development project. The mark in our logo is the sombrero vueltiao. Neither is decoration.

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Where we work

Barranquilla, Colombia The delivery center, and where the company started
Naples, Florida 3811 Airport Road N, Suite 100A

What you can check yourself

More than 200 apps in market since 2007. Google, Motorola Solutions, Facebook, and Skype have acquired some of them. Our software design and development unit holds a CMMI-DEV/3 appraisal, which is an outside assessment of how we run delivery rather than a description we wrote ourselves. Client reviews sit on Clutch, where we did not choose the questions.

The numbers our clients published are the ones worth reading. Paymentez went from 4,000 daily transactions to 120,000, and from 85 resellers to 4,700 in a year. Do It Center cut bounce rate by 90% and reached an NPS of 70. Each figure came from the client first, and each one sits on a case study you can open.

Building digital products since 2007
CMMI-DEV/3 appraised software design and development unit
AWS Partner Network, Stripe Verified Partner, Shopify Plus Partner
ISTQB, Certified Agile Tester and Scrum Alliance credentials on staff

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Our Koombea values

Passion

We read the product, not just the ticket. If a spec would ship something that does not work for your user, you hear it before anyone builds it. That is while the change is still cheap, not at the review.

Innovation

AI-First is a working method here, not a label. AI runs across scoping, design, engineering, QA, and deployment. That is the only reason we can fix a price before we know how hard the work turns out to be.

Respect

We say when we are the wrong answer. If you have an engineering team and a backlog you own, hourly Staff Augmentation fits better than a Pod. You hear that on the first call, not after the contract.

Discipline

Every commitment has a mechanism behind it. We fix scope in points before work starts, and a capacity report goes out weekly. If something slips, you get it in writing that week rather than at the end of a phase.

How the work is set up

One delivery center in Barranquilla, on Colombia hours, with no daylight saving shift. That puts our working day inside the US Eastern business day all year. Same clock as New York in winter, an hour behind it from March to November.

One named Delivery Manager owns your priorities and communication, and escalation runs to a named engineering lead and then to leadership. The route is short because the company is not large enough for it to be otherwise.

How we work, in detail

What that means in practice

Inside the US Eastern business day Year round, differing by at most one hour seasonally
One point of contact A named Delivery Manager, not a shared queue
Response targets agreed before launch Four severities in writing, and we answer a P1 within two business hours
Your IP, on payment You own the code, the designs and the documentation

Our leadership

The people below run delivery, engineering, design, quality, and operations. Your Delivery Manager reports into this group, and an escalation that gets past them stops here rather than in a queue.