What a dedicated development team is
A dedicated team is a group of engineers who work only on your product, inside your process, on a monthly contract. They join your standups, take tickets from your backlog and commit to your repositories. You direct the work; we employ the people.
It is a different arrangement from a fixed-price project, and the difference matters more than most agencies admit.
Dedicated team, fixed-price project or freelancers?
| Dedicated team | Fixed-price project | Freelancers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best when | The roadmap is long and priorities change | The scope is clear and can be agreed | The task is small and isolated |
| You provide | Priorities and product direction | Requirements, then feedback | Detailed instructions |
| Cost model | Monthly per person | One agreed price | Hourly, per person |
| Risk | You carry scope risk, we carry people risk | We carry scope risk | You carry everything |
| Cover when someone is ill or leaves | Ours to solve | Ours to solve | Yours to solve |
If you know exactly what you want built and want a number before you start, a fixed-price project is usually better value. If your roadmap runs for a year and shifts every month, a dedicated team costs less and hurts less.
How a team plugs into yours
We do not run a parallel process. Your Jira or Linear, your branching strategy, your definition of done, your review standards. Week one is deliberately slow: reading the codebase, shipping something small, and learning why things are the way they are before suggesting changes.
Who you actually get
Everyone we place has shipped software that real people use. Most have worked on our own products, which means they have argued about cost per user and been paged at night, not only completed tickets.
Every squad includes at least one engineer who has taken an AI feature to production. Most roadmaps now have one on them, and the difference between an engineer who has done that and one who has read about it shows up in week three.
Communication and time zones
We work from one office in Indore, which means your team can turn around and ask each other something rather than filing a question. For you that shows up as fewer blocked days.
Overlap is typically four to five hours with the UK and Europe, and a morning or evening window with the US and Canada. Standups, reviews and demos happen in that window; deep work happens outside it. Clients in India, the United States and Canada run this way with us today.
The arithmetic behind that, so you can plan against it: Indore is four and a half hours ahead of London in British Summer Time and five and a half in winter, which puts the whole of our afternoon inside your morning. It is nine and a half to ten and a half hours ahead of New York and twelve and a half to thirteen and a half ahead of California, so a US overlap is a deliberate choice rather than a coincidence. We agree the window in the first week and keep it, because a team that answers eleven hours later is a team you stop asking.
Working with companies in the US and the UK
Most of the questions we get from American and British companies are not about rates. They are about the mechanics, so here is what we do rather than what the market does.
The contract. Your master services agreement or ours, a statement of work per engagement, and governing law we agree rather than dictate. We sign your NDA as a matter of course.
Your intellectual property. Everything the team produces is assigned to you as it is created, in writing, and it lives in your repositories and your cloud accounts from the first commit. Nothing is held back against a final invoice, because nothing should be.
Invoicing and tax. Monthly, per person, in the currency the contract names. Services exported from India carry no Indian GST, so your invoice has no Indian tax on it. UK buyers usually handle VAT under the reverse charge and US buyers generally owe no sales tax on the service; your accountant should confirm both.
Who you talk to. The engineers, before you commit. Not a sales engineer standing in for them. If an agency will not put the actual people on a call, that is the answer to a different question.
What usually goes wrong. In our experience offshore teams fail for three reasons, and the rate is never one of them: nobody on the client side owns the priorities, the specification lives in one person's head across an ocean, and the first difficult conversation is postponed until it is a contract dispute. All three are fixable in the first month if someone is watching for them.
The market version of all of this, including what an equivalent hire costs in London or New York once salary, tax and benefits are counted, is in our guide to the cost of hiring developers in India.
Contract, notice and replacement
Three months minimum, then monthly with thirty days notice. Rates are per person per month with no recruitment fee, no hidden overheads and no charge for leave cover. If someone is not the right fit in the first two weeks, we replace them at our cost.
Scaling down is part of the deal too. Roadmaps change, funding rounds slip, and an agency that makes it painful to reduce a team is an agency you will resent later.
Security, access and intellectual property
Your repositories, your cloud accounts, your access controls. We sign your NDA, and everything the team produces is yours from the first commit. If your industry requires background checks, device policies or restricted networks, tell us during discovery and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet them.
What it costs
Rates vary with seniority and speciality, billed monthly per person with no recruitment fee. For comparison, experienced Indian engineers generally cost around a third of an equivalent hire in the US or Western Europe, which is why so many product teams staff this way. The full rate card by role, the fully loaded comparison with US and UK hires, and a four-person team costed for six months are in our guide to the cost of hiring developers in India.
If you are weighing a team against a one-off build, read how much app development costs in India first: for a single defined product, a fixed price is often the cheaper answer, and we will say so.