Outsourced engineering without the usual risks.
Hire a senior team instead of individual developers: fixed-price projects when the scope is clear, a dedicated monthly team when it isn’t. Named engineers, weekly demos, code in your repositories.
- Fixed-price projects
- from $3k
- Dedicated team
- from $4k/mo
- Engineers
- Senior, named on the contract
- Notice
- 30 days
Who it’s built for.
- Companies that would otherwise hire two or three developers
- Founders burned by an outsourcing shop before
- Teams with a backlog bigger than their engineers
- Product owners who want a lead, not just hands
Why outsourcing usually goes wrong
Most bad outsourcing stories share three causes: open-ended hourly billing, junior engineers behind a senior salesperson, and code that lives in the vendor’s accounts. We remove all three by design.
Every project has a fixed price or a fixed monthly fee, the engineers on your call are the ones writing the code, and everything lives in your repositories and cloud accounts from the first day.
What’s included
In scope
- A named technical lead and senior engineers
- Weekly demo and written update
- Code review, tests and security checks on every release
- Documentation good enough for your next hire
Available as add-ons
- 24/7 on-call support (available separately)
- Hardware and embedded systems
How it runs, week by week.
Paid review
We read your code or your requirements and write up a plan and price.
Onboarding
Access, environments and the first small win shipped.
Delivery rhythm
A release every one or two weeks against an agreed backlog.
Handover
Your team can take over with full documentation.
Software development pricing
Prices in US dollars.
| Factor | Effect on price |
|---|---|
| Team size | Each extra engineer adds to the monthly fee |
| Legacy code without tests | Adds a stabilisation phase |
| Overlap with your working hours | Included for US, UK, UAE, Canada and India |
Paid in milestones: 50% to start, 40% when you can use it on staging, 10% at launch (40/40/20 on larger projects). Prices are set for each market, not converted at the day’s exchange rate.
Your options, side by side.
| Hire in-house | Freelancers | Typical outsourcing shop | v1build | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to start | 2–4 months to hire | 1–2 weeks | 2–4 weeks | About one week |
| Pricing | Salary plus overheads | Hourly | Hourly or day rate | Fixed price or fixed monthly fee |
| Seniority | Whoever you can hire | Varies | Often junior | Senior, named on the contract |
| Code ownership | Yours | Check the contract | Often after final payment | Yours from day one |
Questions, answered.
Can we hire your engineers directly later?
Yes, with a fair transfer fee agreed up front.
How do you handle IP and confidentiality?
Mutual NDA before the first call, and all IP assigned to you on payment.
Where are your engineers?
In India, working overlapping hours with clients in the US, UK, UAE and Canada.
Your v1 could be live next month.
Tell us what you are building. Get a fixed scope and price in writing within 24 hours.
Prefer email? hello@v1build.com