# About PreVettedAI

PreVettedAI is the productized arm of Density Labs, a 10-year engineering partnership that built the muscle for hiring great LATAM engineers because we needed it ourselves.

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    <h2>Mission</h2>
    <p>Make hiring great engineers feel less like a slog and more like a Monday.</p>
    <p>We hand engineering managers a vetted bench, a sane process, and a single monthly bill, so the part of the job they hate stops being the part they spend the most time on.</p>
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    <h2>Vision</h2>
    <p>Be the default place North-American engineering teams go when they need to add a great engineer this quarter.</p>
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  <span class="eyebrow">The founder</span>
  <h2>Federico Ramallo.</h2>
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        Federico shipped his first line of production code at 15 and was hired by Microsoft Argentina at 16. He founded <a href="https://densitylabs.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Density Labs</a> in 2016 and has been running cross-border engineering partnerships for a decade, most of them still running today.
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        He hosts the <a href="https://prevetted.fm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PreVetted Podcast</a> (150+ conversations with VPs of Engineering, CTOs, and operators on what actually works when teams are spread across borders) and is writing <em><a href="https://ramallo.io/books/the-invisible-distance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Invisible Distance</a></em>, a field manual for engineering leaders running distributed teams, out Q3 2026.
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        PreVettedAI is what happens when a decade of partnership work meets a 14-day clock. Same standard, more people who get to benefit from it.
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        <span class="eyebrow">Why we built this</span>
        <p class="proof-card__line"><strong>For engineers:</strong> help more LATAM engineers level up by working with US teams that stretch them.</p>
        <p class="proof-card__line"><strong>For managers:</strong> cut six months of bad hiring funnels down to two weeks of good ones.</p>
        <p class="proof-card__attribution">More: <a href="/success/">why this works →</a></p>
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<h2>What we believe</h2>
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  <div class="card"><span class="num">01</span><h3>Trust is built in DMs, not slide decks</h3><p>Open, candid communication beats curated polish, internally and with clients.</p></div>
  <div class="card"><span class="num">02</span><h3>Agility means smaller batches</h3><p>We ship in days. We change direction in hours. We don't run quarterly steering committees.</p></div>
  <div class="card"><span class="num">03</span><h3>Proactivity over permission</h3><p>If you can see a problem, you can fix it. Bias toward action, ask forgiveness later.</p></div>
  <div class="card"><span class="num">04</span><h3>Experience compounds</h3><p>Every hire brings a perspective the room didn't have. Our job is to surface it, not flatten it.</p></div>
  <div class="card"><span class="num">05</span><h3>Happy people ship more</h3><p>Burnout-driven productivity is borrowed. We don't want a loan we can't repay.</p></div>
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