Outsourcing software development to a team in Lahore.
How it works in practice: whose hours, whose contract, who owns the code, and what happens if it is not working.
- 50+
- In-house engineers
- 100+
- Projects delivered
- UTC+5
- Lahore, UTC+5
- 30 days
- Notice, either direction
Why companies work with us from abroad
The question is rarely whether Pakistan has good engineers. It is whether the arrangement will hold up week to week.
Engineers on payroll, not a marketplace
50+ in-house engineers in Lahore across engineering, design and QA. Nobody on your work is a freelancer found the week it started.
Hours that overlap
A normal working day here covers the Gulf and East Africa end to end, and runs alongside the UK and Western Europe from their morning into the early afternoon. Where a team needs more overlap than that, engineers move their hours to get it.
A UK company to contract with
UK clients can work through our strategic partner TheCodeV, a company registered in England and Wales, with our engineers in Lahore doing the work.
Read moreThree ways to work with us
Each answers the same three questions differently: who directs the work, what you commit to, and when it fits.
Extending your team
Our engineers join yours and work to your plan.
- Who directs it
- You lead
- Commitment
- Monthly, 30 days notice
- Best for
- You know what to build and need more hands to build it.
Dedicated team
A self-contained group with a lead, delivering against a roadmap.
- Who directs it
- We lead, you set direction
- Commitment
- Quarterly
- Best for
- The work runs for months and you would rather not manage it day to day.
Fixed scope
An agreed deliverable, a milestone schedule and a price.
- Who directs it
- We lead
- Commitment
- Per project
- Best for
- The requirement is settled and you want the delivery risk on our side.
More on extending your team and on a dedicated development team.
Contracts, ownership and billing
The questions procurement asks first, answered the same way on every engagement.
The code is yours
Intellectual property is assigned to you in the contract, not on completion of a milestone. Work in your repository stays in your repository.
You set the work
Your backlog, your priorities, your definition of done. We do not run a parallel plan or ask you to route requests through an account manager.
We are the employer of record
Salary, tax, equipment, leave and the employment relationship stay with us. You are contracting for capacity, not taking on a headcount liability in Pakistan.
Nobody is shared
An engineer on your team is on your team. They are not split across three clients and billed to each as full time.
Billing
A monthly invoice per engineer, at an agreed rate. No recruitment fee, no percentage of salary, no charge for the time we spend finding the person.
Minimum engagement
One month. Long enough for someone to be useful, short enough that you are not betting a quarter on a first impression.
From first call to first week
How long each step takes, so you can plan around it.
- 0145 minutes
A call
What you are building, what the codebase looks like, which seniority you actually need. An engineer is on this call, because the questions worth asking are technical ones.
- 023 working days
Profiles
CVs of people who are genuinely free, with their rate on them. If nobody on the bench fits, we say so on the call instead of sending three near-misses.
- 03Your schedule
You interview
Your team, your technical interview, your decision. We do not present a single candidate and call it a shortlist.
- 042 to 3 days
Paperwork
Contract, NDA and IP assignment. Standard documents, and we will work from yours if your legal team would rather.
- 05Week one
First sprint
Access, environment, and a ticket closed in the first week. Small and real, so both sides find out early how the working relationship runs.
Work for clients outside Pakistan
A SaaS product for a US startup, QA automation for a US CRM, and a delivery network running across countries.
Questions buyers ask first
Yes. A contract, NDA and IP assignment are standard, and we will work from your own documents if your legal team prefers.
Talk to an engineer, not a salesperson
Tell us what you are building and the skills you are missing. We will tell you on the first call whether we are the right fit.
