Yair Rozilio isn’t chasing the next big trend. He’s seen the same movie play out for decades and finally decided it was time to change the script.
The Boca Raton-based entrepreneur has spent roughly 25 years in the services business, starting as a data engineer in Israel before founding his first company, Naya Tech, in 2009. That business grew quickly, expanded to the U.S., and was eventually acquired in 2019. Along the way, he gained a front-row seat to how outsourcing really works and where it often goes wrong.
“The outsource industry is very old and traditional,” Rozilio told Refresh Miami. “Technologies keep changing, but if you look at the way outsource companies work, it’s still relatively the same. Pay by hours, fixed price projects, and so on.”
That disconnect is what led him to launch Scoutt, an AI-powered platform designed to modernize how companies build global engineering teams. The concept: more transparency, better matching, and fewer black boxes for customers who are tired of not knowing who they’re hiring or what they’re actually paying for.
One of the biggest issues Rozilio saw, time and again, was how traditional firms prioritize their own needs over the client’s.
“Most services companies check their inventory,” he said. “Who’s on the bench right now? Who doesn’t have work at the moment? Let’s try to put them with this client. Our model is very different.”
Scoutt doesn’t keep a bench. Instead, it focuses on skills, seniority, culture fit, and time zone alignment, using AI to analyze project requirements and propose team structures that make sense for the work at hand. Engineers still go through interviews and technical assessments, but the goal is to reduce failure rates by being far more deliberate from the start.
That philosophy has become even more relevant as AI reshapes how software gets built. What once took months can now take weeks, sometimes less. Teams can be smaller. Ideas can be tested faster. But speed comes with new questions.
“If we move so quickly, are we missing something?” Rozilio asked. “Not every prototype automatically becomes a real product. There are still things you need to think through.”
Those changes are also transforming roles inside engineering teams. Some positions may shrink or disappear, while new ones emerge. For example: “Maybe you don’t need the same QA role as before,” he said. “But maybe you need a QA operator who knows how to work with AI technologies inside the organization.”
Scoutt CTO Moran Alkobi sees this shift as central to where the industry is headed.
“The future of software outsourcing isn’t about finding more developers, it’s about intelligently combining human expertise with AI capability,” Alkobi shared. “We’re already delivering projects and building hybrid engineering teams where AI agents handle substantial portions of the workload, orchestrated by what we call AI-Operators: skilled engineers who specialize in directing and refining AI-generated output.”
Alkobi added that this approach is already producing faster and more cost-effective results than traditional models, especially as companies move away from outsourcing headcount and toward outsourcing outcomes.
Scoutt’s own story has also been shaped by place. Rozilio relocated from Silicon Valley to South Florida during the pandemic and has stayed ever since. He credits the region’s growing founder community and quality of life, while acknowledging that the local talent pool is still catching up to more established tech hubs.
“I see a lot of founders moving here,” he said. “What’s still missing is more developers choosing South Florida over places like California or Austin. But if more founders build companies here, the talent will follow.”
Pictured above: Yair Rozilio, CEO, at right, with Moran Alkobi, CTO
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