Let me start with a story that shows why team location matters in the age of global delivery. Back in 2019, before remote-first became standard, a Fortune 500 client asked us to provide developers and QA engineers, but with one condition: every consultant had to work on-site at their U.S. office. At first, it seemed logical. Having the vendor…
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…
