Alcor

Alcor builds engineering teams that belong to you. The Palo Alto company recruits senior developers in Eastern Europe and Latin America, then runs payroll, compliance and local operations around them while the engineers report to your CTO. It is a different proposition from the usual outsourcing contract. You do not pay for hours or take whoever is on a vendor's bench. You hire the specific people you need and keep full IP from day one. The standard build is 10 to 30 engineers in 90 days, which Alcor calls five times faster and 30 to 50 percent more efficient than US-based hiring. The service has three layers. Recruitment comes first. Alcor sources candidates for your stack, including AI/ML, deep tech and rare specializations, with first CVs in 3 to 5 days and 2 to 6 weeks per role. Only senior engineers are presented, each pre-vetted for performance. The employer of record layer then handles contracts, payroll, benefits and stock option administration, plus on-demand IT, HR, travel and visa support, so you never build a back office abroad. Everything runs through AlcorOS, a platform that gives you team visibility, payroll tracking and full cost transparency in one place. EVP consultation and employer branding are available as well. Clients named on the site include People.ai, Sift, Tubular Labs and Franki. The model suits software companies that have hit a hiring wall at home, want to turn contractors into a true internal team, need engineering capacity without R&D growing as a share of revenue, or want a cost line the CFO can forecast before and after an IPO. Testimonials from the engineers themselves mention bank paperwork, business trips and expense questions resolved within minutes or hours. Alcor operates in eight countries: Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina and Chile. For each it publishes the size of the local tech pool and the average developer salary, so you can compare locations before committing. The terms are unusually open for a BPO company USA buyers will meet. Pricing is transparent with no hidden fees, replacement is free during probation, and the team can transfer to your own entity after six months. Engineers stay 2.5 years or more. The company has been setting up R&D centers since 2007. Alcor is not a call center USA firms use for customer support, and it does not sell general outsourcing. It is an AI-ready BPO for one job: a permanent, owned engineering team abroad for a US technology company. If that is the gap you need to close, connect with Alcor through BPOAI.ai or request a quote to see how your roles, cost and timeline would look.