Leniolabs

Leniolabs is a US-based nearshoring firm founded in 2013, headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, with engineering teams in South America. The company focuses on frontend development and product delivery for Bay Area enterprises and US East Coast clients, leveraging timezone overlap with South American countries to avoid traditional offshoring communication friction. Leniolabs was acquired by and is now part of the Improving brand, though the company states its focus and operations remain unchanged. The firm works with clients like SAP, Ellie Mae, Commvault, and PayPal on web applications, data visualization dashboards, and team augmentation.

Services and capabilities

Leniolabs operates across six core service lines. Team Augmentation places remote frontend engineers into client teams, emphasizing timezone alignment (South America to US) to enable synchronous communication, daily standups, and agile ceremonies without the communication delays typical of traditional offshoring. The company holds a minimum 3-month contract with a 3-week trial period where clients can request personnel changes at no charge.

Product Development combines design and engineering to move ideas from concept to shipped product. The process includes iterative design with rapid prototyping, wireframing, interactive mockups, and design systems work. Development spans proof-of-concept and MVP phases through full-featured products, with emphasis on scalable architectures, QA, automated testing, and incremental delivery. Data Projects blend data science, frontend technology, and UX design to build dashboards for Silicon Valley companies. Design Systems work helps clients scale applications consistently. Framework Migration addresses transitions between JavaScript frameworks—React, Angular, and Vue.js—for large enterprise applications. Security is called out as a priority, with policies including need-to-know data access, centrally managed workstations, secure networks with IT monitoring, and SOC 2 compliance in progress.

The company works with React, Angular, AngularJS, Vue, D3.js, Node.js, Progressive Web Apps, and Service Workers. The firm has also built custom CRM and ERP solutions.

How they work

Leniolabs structures engagements through Master Service Agreements (MSA) and Statements of Work (SOW) under US law, protecting clients as if working with a local US partner. All employees and partners sign NDAs. The company enforces non-solicitation clauses in its MSAs to prevent client poaching of its developers, though exceptions can be negotiated with mutual agreement. When a client lacks the perfect-fit candidate from Leniolabs' existing pool, the company conducts a scouting process where clients can interview candidates directly. Candidates go through three interviews: personal, language skills, and technical assessment, with focus on communication, technical depth, and agile methodology understanding. Minimum engagement is 3 months; no maximum is stated. Developers are sourced as needed. The company has presence in South America and also serves European clients from a base in Spain.

Team and credentials

Leniolabs was founded in 2013 with a remote-first approach from the start. The firm is preparing a SOC 2 audit and internally follows SOC principles. It has developed an internal data security platform called MyLenio, now being commercialized to external parties. The company runs two weekly training sessions on frontend technologies for its teams and invites international speakers to discuss JS frameworks, data visualization, and design systems. No team size is disclosed in the source material. The firm is now part of the Improving brand.