Offshore software development that still answers before lunch

The classic offshore trade is money for latency. We are offshore on price and nearshore on schedule: Belgrade sits 4–6 hours ahead of US East, so your morning is our afternoon.

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Overview

The offshore trade, stated plainly

Offshore trades rate for latency. We keep the rate and give back the latency: Belgrade overlaps your working day by four to six hours.

What offshore development actually buys you

Offshore means the team sits in a different country and usually a distant time zone. The rate falls by 60–75%; what rises is the cost of every misunderstanding, because a question asked at 5pm gets its answer tomorrow. That trade is the whole subject.

We run an offshore engagement without the second half of that trade: Belgrade keeps 4–6 hours of daily overlap with US East, so the answer arrives the same working day and the rate still looks like offshore.

When offshore is the right call

It works when the scope can be written down, when your side can answer questions inside one shared window, and when the work is long enough that onboarding pays back. It fails when requirements live in someone's head and the vendor is expected to guess.

Signals that offshore will work for you

you can describe the outcome in writing, not only in conversation;
there is one person on your side who can decide within a day;
the work runs for months rather than a single sprint;
the codebase is yours and can be shared under NDA;
nobody on your side requires the team to be in your country for legal reasons.

Signals that an offshore engagement will work: written scope, one decision-maker, long-running work

Price

$28–55/hour by role

Timeline

Team in 2 weeks

Payment

Monthly, 30-day notice

Economics

The numbers, plainly

The cheapest hour is not the cheapest project. What kills offshore engagements is rework, not the rate.

Criterion

Onshore US $90–160/hUs (Belgrade)

Offshore teamFar-shore

Senior rate

$45/hour

$18–30/hour

Overlap with US East

4–6 hours daily

0–2 hours

Answer to a blocking question

Same working day

Next day

Rework from misread requirements

Low — we ask before building

The hidden line item

Contract and IP jurisdiction

European, English-law MSA

Varies widely

Senior code review

Included in the rate

Usually an upsell

Why we price the review in

A cheaper hour that produces rework is more expensive than an accountable one. That is why a senior engineer reviews every merge at no separate charge — it is the control that keeps the offshore discount from turning into an offshore surprise.

Rates

$28–55/hour by role

Fixed builds

From $7,990

Payment

SWIFT in USD or SEPA in EUR

Fit

What we take offshore — and what we decline

Saying no to the wrong engagement early is cheaper for both of us than discovering it in week three.

Work that goes well offshore

Product builds with a written scope. Long-running dedicated teams. Integrations. Modernising a codebase you already own. AI features with an evaluation harness.

Anything where weekly decisions can happen in one shared working window rather than a daily handoff.

Work we will not take

Engagements requiring US-person-only access, on-site presence or a security clearance.

We say this on the first call rather than after the NDA — it is the kind of constraint that ends projects late and expensively.

Three ways to buy the same team

Fixed-price project when scope is knowable: price and date fixed, 50/50 by milestone. Dedicated team from three months at −10%. Staff augmentation month-to-month — see staff augmentation.

All three carry the same published rates and the same senior review.

How the distance is actually managed

Written status every Monday, a mid-week demo of working software, and one shared channel with answers inside your working hours.

Releases run in your business hours, not ours. Incidents have a named owner and a documented escalation path.

Cost

What an offshore engagement costs

Three ways to buy the same team, all at the same published rates and the same senior review.

Fixed-price build

From $7,990

Scope, price and date fixed in the SOW; paid 50/50 by milestone

From 3 weeks

Why teams choose us

Four things we can prove, not four adjectives.

Overlap instead of handoff

Four to six hours with US East every working day. Blocking questions get answered before your afternoon ends, which is where offshore engagements usually leak money.

Fixed price where scope allows

When the scope can be written, we fix the price and the date. Hourly is for open-ended work, not for hiding an estimate.

Your repository, your cloud

Code and infrastructure live in your accounts from the first commit, with IP assigned at delivery and a documented chain of title.

Rates published, review included

No rate card behind a sales call, and senior review is inside the price rather than an upsell — that is what keeps rework from eating the discount.

Industries

What we buildfor your industry

Offshore delivery for the domains we have already shipped in: logistics, real estate, e-commerce and manufacturing each bring their own rules and integrations.

18 sectors

IT companies and digital agencies
Insurers and brokers
Lenders and microfinance
E-commerce
Wholesale and distribution
Manufacturing
Freight and forwarding
Clinics and medical centres
Dental
Car dealers and service centres
EdTech
Legal and consulting firms
Equipment rental
Real estate agencies
Property developers
Travel and events
Beauty and wellness
Construction and renovation

FAQ

Offshore development questions

What US and UK clients ask before the first contract.

What is offshore outsourcing, exactly?

Hiring a development team in another country. It is a contracting model, not a quality level — what actually varies is process, seniority and how many hours of your day the team is awake for.

How much do we save versus hiring in the US?

Roughly 60–75% on the rate. The real saving depends on how much rework your process generates: that is why we include senior review rather than selling it separately.

What about the time zone?

We keep 4–6 hours of daily overlap with US East and run releases in your business hours. For European clients the overlap is the full working day.

Who owns the IP and under what law?

You do, assigned at delivery, under an English-law MSA with arbitration named in the contract and a documented chain of title from every contributor.

How do we pay a European company?

SWIFT in USD or SEPA in EUR to a European IBAN. Subscriptions and audits go by card through Paddle, our merchant of record.

Where is the team?

Belgrade headquarters, distributed across Europe. Exact delivery locations are disclosed under NDA before you sign — we do not market a geography we do not have.

2–4×

faster on the code-writing share

in 3 weeks

from idea to MVP

230+

projects delivered

17 years

of engineering experience

Work