Software development outsourcing, with the responsibility actually transferred

Outsourcing fails in the same place every time: the vendor delivers tasks and the client keeps owning the outcome. We take the outcome — scope, date, quality bar and the release.

Outsourcing

Who owns the result — the only question that matters

Every outsourcing model differs in one place: whether the outcome is yours to manage or ours to deliver. Price follows that, not the other way round.

What software development outsourcing means when it is done honestly

Outsourcing means handing over an outcome, not a task list. The scope, the date and the quality bar go into a statement of work with acceptance criteria, and the vendor owns delivery against them. If what you actually want is extra hands under your own manager, that is staff augmentation and it is priced differently.

The failure mode is always the same: a vendor that reports tasks completed while nobody owns whether the thing works. That is why our contract carries acceptance criteria and a named lead who answers inside your working day — and why we publish the rates behind the number.

When outsourcing is the right model

When there is no in-house development team, or it is busy with something that matters more; when the work has boundaries that can be written down; when you want a predictable budget more than daily control. It is the wrong model when the product is your core know-how and cannot leave the building, or when requirements live only in someone's head.

Signals outsourcing fits your situation

  • there is no in-house team, or it is fully loaded for the next two quarters;
  • the task has an edge you can describe: a system, a module, a migration;
  • nobody internally has time to manage a contractor daily;
  • the budget has to be predictable enough to defend;
  • you want the code and infrastructure to stay yours regardless of the vendor.
Signals outsourcing fits: no in-house team, a task with clear boundaries, no time to manage a contractor, a budget that must be predictable

Price

From $7,990

Timeline

3 weeks to first release

Payment

50/50 by milestone

Pricing

What outsourcing costs with us

Published packages and published rates — the same numbers as on the pricing page. Fixed price covers what the statement of work says; new scope always gets its own quote.

Scoping Sprint

$4,490

Architecture, breakdown, risks and a fixed quote — credited in full against any package within 30 days

1 week

Launch-Ready

$18,900

Up to 6 flows, granular roles, 3+ integrations, tests and CI/CD, 60 days of support

6–8 weeks

Dedicated team

$28–55/hour

A standing team by role with a named lead; −10% from three months

From 3 months

Agency partners from 320 hours a month: −15%. See the full price list.

Comparison

Four ways to buy the same engineers

The models differ in who manages the work and who is accountable for the result. Pick by that, not by the hourly rate.

Criterion
AugmentationOutsourced project
OutsourcingStaff augmentation
Who sets the tasks
You do, daily
We do, against the agreed scope
Who owns the result
You
We, with acceptance criteria in the contract
Management overhead on your side
A manager and a backlog
One weekly demo
Price shape
Hourly, per engineer
Fixed per package, or hourly by role
Speed of scaling down
Immediate, month to month
At the end of a milestone
Best for
You have management capacity and a backlog
You want the outcome, not the overhead
Process

How the responsibility is actually transferred

Four mechanisms, all of them in the contract rather than in a sales deck.

Scope with an out-of-scope list

The statement of work says what is included and what is not. Most disputes in this industry come from the second list being absent.

Change requests are priced separately and never applied silently.

Acceptance criteria before the sprint

Each milestone has written criteria agreed in advance, so «done» is a check rather than an opinion. Payment follows acceptance: 50/50 by milestone.

Weekly working software

A demo of running software every week, not a status report. Your repository, your CI, your cloud from the first commit — see how we work.

A named lead answers inside your working day; Belgrade overlaps US East by four to six hours.

Exit without hostages

Documentation, runbook and a handover call are part of delivery, not an upsell. IP is assigned at delivery with a documented chain of title.

If you leave, you take a system another team can run — that is the point of the model.

Why us

Why companies outsource to us specifically

Four things we can prove, rather than four adjectives.

Published rates and packages

Rates $28–55 by role and fixed packages are on the site. You compare us before the call instead of after three meetings.

Senior review on every merge

A senior engineer who did not write the code reviews it — including code an AI drafted. That review is inside the price, not an upsell.

Your repository, your cloud

Code, infrastructure as code and design sources live in your accounts from day one. Nothing is held as leverage at renewal time.

One team, one contract

Design, development, QA and DevOps under one European contract, so nobody spends your budget on coordination between three vendors.

Industries

Outsourced developmentfor your industry

The model is the same everywhere; the domain decides the integrations, the compliance questions and who signs off acceptance.

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

Software outsourcing questions

Seven answers that usually replace a discovery call.

What is software development outsourcing?

Handing over an outcome rather than a task list: scope, date and quality bar are contractual, and the vendor owns delivery against acceptance criteria.

Outsourcing or staff augmentation?

Augmentation when you already have a manager and a backlog; outsourcing when you want the result without the management overhead. We offer both and will say which fits after the first call.

How do we keep control if we are not managing daily?

A weekly demo of working software, acceptance criteria written before the sprint, your repository from commit one, and a named lead who answers inside your working day.

What happens when the scope changes?

It gets its own quote. Fixed price covers what the statement of work describes; nothing is added silently in either direction.

What about IP and confidentiality?

NDA before the first call, IP assigned at delivery with a documented chain of title, and your accounts holding the code and infrastructure throughout.

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.

How do we exit if it does not work out?

Documentation, runbook and a handover call are part of delivery. You leave with a system another team can run, which is the only honest definition of no hostages.

2–4×
faster on the code-writing share
in 3 weeks
from idea to MVP
230+
projects delivered
17 years
of engineering experience
Work

Work we can show you

Deciding between outsourcing, a dedicated team and augmentation?

Describe the task and who is available on your side. You get a recommendation on the model — including «keep it in-house» when that is the honest answer — and a fixed quote for the first milestone.