Sol is the AI assistant on the Ruzora homepage, and it starts with one question: "What are you hiring for?" You answer in plain words, the way you would brief a colleague. Sol asks a couple of short follow-ups, checks our bench of vetted senior LATAM engineers, and if someone fits, you see blind profiles right there in the chat. No form, no sign-up, no recruiter call to book first. Try Sol on the homepage.
We built Sol because the first step of hiring is usually the slowest one: a form, a call to schedule, the same five facts repeated to a recruiter. Sol turns that into a few minutes of typing.
Key Takeaways
- Sol is a chat on the Ruzora homepage where you describe the engineer you need. There is no sign-up to start.
- When engineers on the bench fit, Sol shows up to 3 blind profile cards in the chat. When nobody fits, it says so and you get a vetted shortlist within 72 hours instead.
- Names and employers stay hidden until there is a signed agreement. After that you get identities and interview the people you like.
- Every engineer Sol can match has passed an AI interview and a graded coding assessment, and is marked available.
How a Session With Sol Actually Goes
1. You type the role. The homepage hero is a chat box with the prompt "What are you hiring for?" and a few suggestion chips, like "Two senior React engineers, ASAP" or "A Python backend lead with full US hours". One sentence in your own words is plenty.
2. Sol asks a couple of short questions. Usually the stack, how many people, seniority, timeline and how much overlap with US hours you need. It does not ask for your name, company or email at this stage.
3. Sol checks the bench. Once it knows the role and the stack, Sol runs a read-only check against engineers who are vetted and currently available. If there are matches, you see up to three blind cards and Sol tells you: "Here's who's available on the bench for that stack right now. Names and employers stay hidden until we sign." If nothing fits that exact mix today, Sol says so and offers a vetted shortlist within 72 hours. It never invents a match.
4. Each card is blind on purpose. A card shows seniority, a years-of-experience band, the availability window, hours of overlap with US time, country or region, skill chips, verified stacks, a two-sentence anonymized summary, a one-line work-history summary without dates, and a match band: Strong, Good or Partial. No name, no employer, no scores.
5. Work email, then the full shortlist. After a couple of messages Sol asks where to send the full shortlist. The hiring chat takes a work email only; Gmail, Yahoo and other personal domains are turned away.
6. What lands in your inbox. An email with the blind cards, a link to a private shortlist page, and PDF profiles with contact details removed. From that page you can request an intro to anyone you like.
7. Then people take over. A short call with me, a signed agreement, and only then candidate identities and interviews. You interview and you decide.
Why Sol Shows Blind Profiles First
The company name is what makes a profile findable. Show employers before an agreement and anyone can search the person, and the engineer's current employer can learn they are looking. So the chat shows what you need to judge fit (skills, seniority, overlap, availability, a summary of the work) and holds back what identifies the person. Identity comes with the signed agreement, which is also when interviews start. The longer argument is in why you see the profile before the name.
What Is Behind Sol
| What | How it works |
|---|---|
| Who Sol can match | Only engineers who passed an AI interview and a graded coding assessment, and are marked available |
| Shortlist | A vetted, scored shortlist within 72 hours of telling us what you need, guaranteed |
| Start date | Typically 2-3 weeks from shortlist to an engineer onboarded and committing code, depending on your interview pace |
| Guarantee | 60-day replacement guarantee from the engineer's first working day, for documented technical performance issues |
| Pricing | One flat monthly rate per engineer, typically 40-60% below a fully loaded US hire. The exact quote comes with the shortlist |
| Terms | Three-month initial commitment, then month-to-month on 30 days' written notice |
The vetting rule is built into the bench check itself: an engineer who has not passed both the AI interview and the coding assessment cannot show up in Sol's results. More on how we vet.
What Sol Will Not Do
- It will not show names or employers before an agreement, and it will not book interviews before one.
- It will not quote a Ruzora dollar figure in the chat. Ask what a senior LATAM engineer costs and you get the relative answer (typically 40-60% below a fully loaded US hire) plus a note that the exact rate comes with the shortlist, because it depends on seniority and stack.
- It will not claim someone is available without checking the bench first.
- It will not promise a hire in 72 hours. The 72 hours is the shortlist.
Sol also knows what it is not for. Job seekers get pointed to our open roles. And if you want an app built rather than engineers hired, Sol points you to the Honest Read, its free written read on what your idea would take. More in Honest Read, Sol's free app idea report.
Sol vs a Recruiter Intake Call vs a Job Board
| Sol | Recruiter intake call | Job board post | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to start | Type now, no sign-up | Book a call, often days out | Write a job description, wait for applicants |
| What you see first | Blind profiles from a vetted bench, when they fit | Resumes after the search | Whoever applies |
| Vetting before you see anyone | AI interview plus graded coding | Varies by agency | None |
| Identity | After a signed agreement | Usually right away | Right away |
| Shortlist timing | Within 72 hours, guaranteed | Varies | Not applicable |
A good recruiter reads the politics of a role better than any chat. Sol wins on speed and on never showing you someone unscreened. Comparing providers anyway? See how to evaluate a staff augmentation provider.
A Concrete Version
A hypothetical CTO at a 30-person fintech, on a Tuesday morning:
- 9:02 She opens the homepage and types: "Senior Node.js engineer for our payments API, TypeScript and Postgres, at least 5 hours of overlap with Eastern time."
- 9:03 Sol asks about timeline and headcount. One person, starting in about three weeks.
- 9:04 Sol checks the bench and shows two blind cards: one Strong match, one Good match. Each has stack chips, US-hours overlap, an availability window and a short anonymized summary.
- 9:06 She asks for the full shortlist and gives her work email.
- 9:07 The email arrives with the private shortlist page and the redacted PDFs. She forwards it to her lead engineer.
- That afternoon she requests an intro. A short call with me, then the agreement, then she interviews both engineers by name.
- About 2-3 weeks later the engineer she picked is onboarded and committing code. The 60-day replacement guarantee starts counting on that first working day.
Her time spent before seeing real, vetted profiles: under ten minutes. Interviews still take as long as they take, and they should. Compare that with the usual numbers in how fast you can hire an engineer.
The Honest Counterpoint
Sol is the wrong tool in a few cases, and I would rather say so here than on a call.
If you need someone in your office, we are the wrong fit: our engineers work remotely from Latin America. If you want a full-time employee on your own payroll from day one, a direct hire is the cleaner path; with us the engineer works under our agreement, and converting to full-time later is possible. Staff augmentation vs full-time hiring covers that trade-off honestly. If you have an app idea and no engineering team, the hiring chat is the wrong door and the Honest Read is the right one.
And some days the bench check comes back empty for your exact mix. Then the in-chat preview does nothing for you, and you wait for the 72-hour shortlist like any other client.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Sol on the Ruzora website?
Sol is Ruzora's AI assistant on the homepage. You describe the engineer you need, Sol asks a couple of questions, checks our vetted bench and shows blind profiles when they fit. The full scored shortlist comes within 72 hours.
Do I need to sign up to use Sol?
No. You can start typing right away. Sol asks for a work email only when you want the full shortlist sent to you. Personal email domains are not accepted on the hiring chat.
Can Sol tell me who the engineers are?
Not before an agreement. Names and employers stay hidden until it is signed. After that you get identities and interview the engineers you like.
The Bottom Line
The first conversation in a hire usually takes days to schedule. Sol makes it a few minutes of typing, shows you vetted engineers when they exist, and tells you plainly when they don't. Try Sol on the homepage and describe the role you are hiring for. Prefer a form? Request a shortlist here.
Roberto Espinoza is CEO of Ruzora, which helps US startups hire pre-vetted senior LATAM engineers, with a vetted shortlist in 72 hours. See available engineers.
