Moving an Offshore-Built Codebase to a US Team

By not switching everything at once. We take read access and learn the system while the current arrangement still runs, work the handover checklist in parallel, then take deploys over once we can reproduce the environment and reverse a change. A transition that requires a hard cutover on a single date is a transition that has not been planned.

That is the normal case rather than the hard one. Most of what we need is in the code, the data and the infrastructure. What we need from you is the business context: what the system is supposed to do, which behaviors customers depend on, and what breaks most often. The one thing that genuinely hurts is not having ownership of the accounts, which is why it is first on the checklist above.

Usually more of it than people expect, and the answer is an engineering judgment rather than a preference. That is what the $2,500 System Spec produces, and you own the answer either way. The specific tests we apply are set out on software rescue, so this page does not repeat them.

Per hour, yes. We are more AI-forward than most offshore teams, so the rate is higher and the value per dollar is better. Per outcome is the question worth asking, and we will not pretend the honest answer is always us.

Offshore works, and where it works it is usually for two reasons that have very little to do with rates. The first is the team: a well-vetted, trustworthy group you have built a long relationship with beats credentials or headcount every time, and that relationship is the expensive thing to replace. The second is communication: standups, real feedback, specifications written down and kept current. When an offshore arrangement disappoints, it is nearly always one of those two rather than the distance.

What we would push back on is the idea that you settle the specification and then hand it over. Software is never finished. The end product is fungible, it keeps moving, and the requirement you wrote down last quarter is not the requirement today. So the useful question is not whether your spec is stable, because it never is. It is whether your arrangement can absorb change without every change costing a round trip and a renegotiation. If it can, keep it. If it cannot, that is the specific thing that has been expensive.

We are in The Colony, Texas, in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, and we work Central time. In practice that means a question asked in the morning is usually answered the same morning, which is most of what people mean when they say they want an onshore team.

Yes, and that is often the better outcome. We can take the whole system, take one part of it, or work as the senior engineering layer over a team you keep. Dev Bursts at $1,200 a day or $4,500 a week exist for bounded work of that kind, and a retainer from $1,500 a month for a continuing relationship.

Once fees are paid, you own the code we write for you, and you can take it as it stands to any other team. The point of the handover checklist on this page is that you should be able to leave us the same way, and we would rather you had that from the start.

A consultation is free. After that, a System Spec is $2,500 fixed and produces a product brief, a senior engineer's build estimate and a build or do not build recommendation, which you own either way. Ongoing work runs from $1,500 a month, and Dev Bursts are $1,200 a day or $4,500 a week.