Mercado Monkey in Austin, TX

Nearshore web and software development for Austin teams

A bilingual development and marketing team that ships on your timeline, works your hours and costs a fraction of an Austin hire.

Working with AustinMM·2026
Location
Austin, Texas, United States
Local time
— · Central Time: same as Torreón in winter, one hour ahead of us when the US is on daylight saving time
Currency
USD
Population
Roughly 1 million in the city and more than 2.4 million in the metro area
How we work
Video calls · bilingual team
Office: Av. Morelos #703 Pte, Col. Centro, Torreón, Mexico
Is there a digital agency that works with businesses in Austin?

Mercado Monkey is a bilingual digital agency based in Torreón, Mexico that works with Austin businesses on Custom software, E-commerce, AI search optimization (GEO), Web development — remotely, in your time zone, since 2017.

Austin's growth has made engineering talent expensive and hard to retain. For a seed-stage founder, a consumer brand testing a new product line or a local business that needs an internal tool, hiring locally often isn't realistic. That's where most of our Austin work comes from. We're a 14-person team in Torreón, Mexico, building MVPs, dashboards, integrations, e-commerce stores and marketing sites, working in sprints with demos you can actually click through, and committing code to your repository from day one.

We also work with the Austin that doesn't make tech headlines: restaurants on South Congress, Latino-owned businesses in East Austin and Del Valle, contractors building out Round Rock and Hutto. For them the challenge is being found, both on Google and increasingly in AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity, which a city this tech-savvy already uses to pick vendors. We handle classic local SEO and generative engine optimization together, and we can publish natively in Spanish to reach the third of the city that's Hispanic.

Hispanic market. About a third of Austin residents are Hispanic, with strong Latino communities in East Austin, Dove Springs and nearby Del Valle and Manor living alongside the tech boom.

02Local industries

Built for Austin's economy

  • Startups and tech companies

    MVPs, internal dashboards, API integrations and product sites delivered by a dedicated team in staged releases.

  • Consumer brands and e-commerce

    Shopify or custom stores, subscriptions, shipping logic and launch campaigns for food, coffee and lifestyle brands.

  • Real estate and homebuilders

    Community sites, lead capture and local SEO for the fast-growing suburbs north and east of the city.

  • Restaurants, music and events

    Menus, reservations, ticketing links and strong local profiles in a crowded entertainment scene.

  • Health, fitness and wellness

    Online booking, memberships and bilingual content for studios, clinics and therapists.

03Where we work

Areas we serve in Austin

  • Downtown
  • The Domain
  • East Austin
  • South Congress
  • Round Rock
  • Cedar Park
Competing online in Austin

Austin customers research heavily: Google and Yelp reviews, Instagram, Reddit threads and, more and more, AI assistants that summarize options. That raises the bar for search. Keywords alone aren't enough; you need clear, well-structured content, schema markup and credible third-party mentions for AI models to cite you. Spanish-language search remains relatively uncontested, which is an opening for service businesses willing to invest in it.

How we work with you

We work in sprints with video demos and a shared board, and we can join your Slack. Our clock matches Austin in winter and runs one hour behind in summer, so daily standups fit easily. Billing is in USD, we sign NDAs and contracts in English or Spanish, and everything lives in your repositories and accounts. If you already have an engineering lead, we slot into their process.

05Process

How we get started

  1. 01

    30-minute call

    Tell us what you sell, who buys it and what isn't working. Free.

  2. 02

    Audit and proposal

    We review your site, Google Business Profile and local competitors, then send scope, timeline and deliverables.

  3. 03

    Weekly sprints

    Progress every week on a shared board plus a short video call to approve.

  4. 04

    Launch and measure

    We go live, wire up Analytics and conversions, and report what moves month by month.

06Preguntas frecuentes

Austin: frequently asked questions

Can you build our product or site in both English and Spanish?
Yes, with bilingual structure planned from the start rather than bolted on. Our team writes both languages natively, which matters in a city where about a third of residents are Hispanic and many consumer brands still ignore Spanish-speaking buyers.
How does a nearshore team in Mexico compare to hiring in Austin?
You get senior-level work at nearshore rates, in the same time zone for most of the year: Central Time, one hour behind Austin during daylight saving. We run sprints, demos and daily async updates, and your team keeps full ownership of code and accounts.
How can a local business compete in Austin's Google Maps results?
By being precise about where and what. We optimize your Google Business Profile, create pages for the suburbs and neighborhoods your customers live in and keep reviews coming in. Ranking in Pflugerville or Del Valle is often more realistic and profitable than fighting for downtown.
What is GEO, and does it matter for an Austin business?
Generative engine optimization means structuring your content so AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews mention you when people ask for recommendations. Austin's audience adopts these tools early, so we pair it with traditional SEO through clear content, schema and third-party citations.
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