We're not going to fill this page with anonymised success stories and invented percentages. Every agency has them and nobody believes them.
What's genuinely useful before you hire an offshore partner is knowing how the process runs, where it goes wrong, and what happens when it does. That's what's below.
The situation. A funded startup needs to triple engineering capacity before a product milestone. Hiring locally takes four to six months per role. The milestone is in three.
What we'd do. Break the requirement into roles rather than headcount — usually two to three senior engineers who can work unsupervised, plus mid-level capacity underneath them. Sourcing sequentially rather than all at once matters here: onboarding six people simultaneously into a team of three overwhelms the existing team and slows delivery in month one.
Where this goes wrong. Adding engineers faster than you can onboard them. A team of three absorbing six new people spends all its time explaining context. We'd typically stage it across four to six weeks.
Realistic timeline. First engineers contributing within two weeks. Full team productive by week six.
The situation. A specialist role — DevOps, data engineering, a specific framework — has been open for months. The roadmap has slipped twice.
What we'd do. Get precise about whether you need the specialist permanently or need the specific problem solved. Often it's the second, which is a shorter and cheaper engagement.
Where this goes wrong. Vague briefs. "We need a DevOps engineer" describes ten different jobs. The discovery call exists to narrow this before we search.
Realistic timeline. Shortlist in 72 hours; specialist roles occasionally take a few days longer.
The situation. An existing offshore partner is missing deadlines or delivering work that needs rewriting.
What we'd do. Start with an honest assessment of the existing codebase before promising anything. Sometimes the previous vendor was set up to fail by an unclear brief, and replacing them without fixing that repeats the outcome.
Where this goes wrong. Underestimating handover. Undocumented code from a departing vendor costs weeks. Plan for it.
Realistic timeline. Assessment in the first week, transition over three to four.
The situation. A funded idea, no engineering team yet, and a need to ship something real for users or investors.
What we'd do. Usually a small full-stack team rather than specialists. Scope hard — the most valuable thing at this stage is cutting features, not adding engineers.
Where this goes wrong. Scope creep, every time. And building for scale you don't have yet.
Realistic timeline. Four to twelve weeks depending on scope.
We're early as a company. We could have written five case studies with impressive numbers and no way to verify them — plenty of firms do, and you've probably read some.
Instead: a 30-day replacement guarantee in the contract, our sourcing model explained openly, and month-to-month terms so you can leave whenever it stops working.
Named client case studies will go here as engagements complete and clients approve them. Not before.
Tell us the role and we will send a shortlist within 72 hours.
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