I have seen firsthand that outsourcing for startups is a survival strategy. In the early stages, founders are pulled in every direction, trying to build products, manage infrastructure, handle operations, and still find time for customers. The reality is, no startup can do it all in-house without burning out or losing focus. When exploring outsourcing, there are common mistakes…
I still remember the morning my phone wouldn’t stop ringing. One of our largest SaaS clients had a serious problem. Their application was exploding in popularity, adding more than 3,000 new users every single day. From the outside, that looked like success. Inside, their team was firefighting constant outages, slow deployments, and mounting customer complaints. Their monolithic architecture simply…
A few years back, a global manufacturing client reached out in crisis. Their outdated ERP system had crashed again, right in the middle of a critical quarter-end close. While IT scrambled and finance grew frustrated, leadership finally asked the question: is it time for enterprise software upgrades? The CIO’s answer echoed a common fear: “If we upgrade, we break…
Last year, a bootstrapped startup founder from North America came to us with nothing but a Figma prototype and a fierce deadline. He had a peculiar demand, “I need you to build a SaaS MVP in 8 weeks. No excuses. It has to launch.” Spoiler: we launched in 7.5 weeks! Now, this wasn’t some lucky break. This is a…
A few years ago, I was advising a fast-growing software outsourcing company that had just secured a major enterprise account. They were deploying code daily, claiming to have full CI/CD pipeline in place. But then, everything came crashing down. A critical bug made its way to production. Not a minor UI glitch, but one that corrupted live client data….
