Client project
Calldone
Built by Easital for a client in the United States
A voice-AI platform for businesses in the United States. It was built for a US client that owns and operates it.
Offshore software development
Offshore software development services: and how to choose a partner
Easital Technologies Ltd. is a software engineering company based in Dhaka, Bangladesh (GMT+6) that builds and operates software for clients in other countries. This page is a buyer’s guide: what to check in any offshore partner, how outsourcing differs from staff augmentation, what published surveys say about rates, and how we work across time zones.
What offshore software development is
Offshore software development means hiring a company in a distant country, usually several time zones away, to build or maintain software for you. It is one form of software development outsourcing. Nearshore (a nearby country) and onshore (your own country) are the others.
Companies outsource software development for three reasons: to get skills they cannot hire locally, to add capacity faster than recruiting allows, and to lower cost. The cost reason is the one that most often disappoints, because a low hourly rate says nothing about how many hours the work will take or how much of your own time the project will use.
Offshore work has costs a buyer should plan for: fewer shared working hours and more communication in writing. A good partner reduces these with written specifications, recorded demos and a fixed overlap window. A buyer who needs daily working sessions with the whole team is better served by a local or nearshore team.
Outsourcing vs staff augmentation
Outsourcing buys an outcome and staff augmentation buys people. In project outsourcing the vendor manages the work and answers for the result. In staff augmentation the engineers join your team and you manage them. A dedicated team sits between the two.
| Project outsourcing | Dedicated team | Staff augmentation | |
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| What you buy | A defined result | A standing team that works only on your product | Individual engineers added to your team |
| Who manages the work | The vendor | Shared: you set priorities, the vendor runs delivery | You |
| Who carries delivery risk | Mostly the vendor | Shared | Mostly you |
| How it is priced | Fixed price or milestones | Per team, per month | Per person, per month or hour |
| Fits best | A scope that can be written down | A product with a long roadmap | A team with its own process and a gap in skills or capacity |
| Main risk | Every change of scope becomes a change request | Drift when there is no product owner on your side | Your managers’ time; knowledge leaves with the person |
How to choose a software development company: eight checks
These eight checks apply to any offshore software development company, Easital included. Ask for each answer in writing.
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Who owns the code
The contract should assign all intellectual property to you, and the code should sit in a repository your company owns from the first commit. Ask which vendor-owned components are included.
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Access to the engineers
Meet the people who will do the work, not only the sales contact. Ask whether you can talk to them during the project and what happens when one leaves.
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Security practices
How access to your systems is granted and revoked, where credentials are kept and whether production data is ever copied to developer machines.
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Communication overlap
The hours when both sides are at work, stated in your time zone and written into the agreement. Ask what happens outside them when production is down.
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How change requests are priced
Scope will change. Before the first change arises, ask how one is estimated, who approves it and at what rate.
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Evidence of past work
Live products you can open, with the vendor’s role stated plainly. Ask which parts the vendor built and which it did not.
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Quality process
Code review, automated tests, a staging environment, and a named person who decides that a release is ready.
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Exit and handover
What you receive if the contract ends: repository, documentation, credentials and deployment scripts.
How to outsource software development
To outsource software development with the least risk, follow seven steps. The fourth, a small paid first piece, tells you the most.
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Write down the outcome
What the software must do, for whom, and how you will know it works. One page is enough.
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Choose the engagement model
Project outsourcing for a scope that can be written down, a dedicated team for a long roadmap, staff augmentation when you already run a team.
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Shortlist on evidence
Look for live work similar to yours, apply the eight checks and talk to the engineers.
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Start with a small paid piece
A discovery phase, an audit or a single feature shows how the team estimates, communicates and delivers before you commit the full budget.
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Put the terms in the contract
Ownership, confidentiality, overlap hours, change requests, acceptance criteria and exit.
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Run the project in the open
Your repository, a shared project board, regular demos of working software and decisions recorded in writing.
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Review and adjust
After the first milestone, compare what was promised with what was delivered and change the model if needed.
Work delivered from Dhaka for clients abroad
Three projects built by Easital for clients in other countries. The clients own and operate them.
Client project
AdventCircle
Built by Easital for a client in the United States
A community platform with a website and iOS and Android apps. It was built for the same US client.
Client project
Research automation platform
Built by Easital for a market-research agency in the Caribbean
An internal system for a market-research agency in the Caribbean: it manages field interviews, records and transcribes them, analyzes the answers with AI and produces the report.
Offshore software development rates by country and region
Published surveys report rates as ranges by region more reliably than by country. The figures below come from one named survey. They are not Easital’s rates, which we do not publish.
Accelerance, a US outsourcing advisory firm, publishes an annual guide to software development rates. Its summary of November 24, 2025, based on its survey of 60 software development partners, gives the following hourly ranges in US dollars. The article names India, Pakistan and Bangladesh among the talent pools behind the figures for Asia.
| Region | Junior developers | Senior developers |
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| Asia | $24–$31 | $31–$41 |
| Latin America | $33–$45 | $60–$75 |
| Europe | $31–$39 | $64–$76 |
- Local salaries set the floor, which is why rates differ inside a region.
- Seniority and specialty. AI, data and security engineers cost more than general web developers everywhere.
- Engagement model. A fixed-price project includes the vendor’s management and risk.
- Overlap and language. Vendors close to the buyer’s time zone charge for that convenience.
Accelerance sells outsourcing advisory services and surveys its own partner network, so read the ranges as indicative. A rate is also not a cost: total cost is the rate multiplied by the hours, plus your management time and any rework.
How Easital works with overseas clients
Easital works from Dhaka at GMT+6, which Bangladesh keeps all year. The working pattern is built around that: a fixed overlap window, written communication by default and code in a repository the client can see.
| Client location | Time difference | In practice |
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| United Kingdom | Dhaka is 6 hours ahead (5 during British Summer Time) | The UK morning is the Dhaka afternoon |
| Central Europe | Dhaka is 5 hours ahead (4 in summer) | The European morning overlaps the Dhaka working day |
| US East Coast | Dhaka is 11 hours ahead (10 during daylight saving time) | The Eastern morning is the Dhaka evening; calls are scheduled there |
| US West Coast | Dhaka is 14 hours ahead (13 during daylight saving time) | Little natural overlap; most work is asynchronous |
- A repository you can see. Code is committed to a repository you have access to from the start, and demos run on a staging environment you can open.
- Direct access to engineers. You talk to the people writing the code, in a shared channel and on calls.
- Written first. Specifications, decisions and status updates are written down, so nothing depends on who attended a call.
- An agreed overlap window. The shared hours are fixed at the start and stated in your time zone.
- Change requests in writing. A change is estimated and approved before work on it starts.
We are not the right choice for every buyer. If your team needs to work side by side for most of the day, or your data may not leave your country, a local team fits better. Our work is concentrated in AI development and SaaS development.
What our teams build and how we collaborate
Listed by category. The stack for a project is chosen with the client.
- Engineering
- AI agents and LLM applications
- Voice AI
- SaaS platforms
- Web applications
- iOS and Android apps
- Collaboration
- Shared Git repository
- Project board
- Staging environment
- Code review
- Automated tests
Ways to work with us
Easital offers the three models compared above. No rates are published here. A quote follows a conversation about scope and model.
Project outsourcing
A defined scope delivered for an agreed price, with acceptance criteria written before work starts.
Best for: a product or feature that can be specified, such as an MVP.
Dedicated team
A standing team that works only on your product, with a delivery lead on our side and a product owner on yours.
Best for: a product with a long roadmap.
Staff augmentation
Individual engineers join your team and follow your process. For AI roles, see hire AI developers.
Best for: teams with their own management and a gap in skills or capacity.
Offshore software development: questions and answers
What does an offshore software development company do?
An offshore software development company builds, maintains or extends software for clients in other countries. It supplies either a finished result (project outsourcing), a standing team for one product, or individual engineers who join the client’s team (staff augmentation).
How do you outsource software development?
Write down the outcome you need, choose an engagement model, shortlist vendors on live work similar to yours, and start with a small paid piece such as a discovery phase. Put ownership, confidentiality, overlap hours, change requests and exit terms in the contract.
How do you choose a software development company?
Check eight things: who owns the code, whether you can talk to the engineers, how security and access are handled, the shared working hours, how change requests are priced, live evidence of past work, the quality process, and what you receive if you leave. Ask for each answer in writing.
Staff augmentation vs outsourcing: which should you choose?
Choose outsourcing when the result can be written down and you want the vendor to manage delivery and answer for it. Choose staff augmentation when you already run a team with its own process and need more skills or capacity under your own management. A dedicated team is the middle option for a product with a long roadmap.
What are offshore software development rates by country?
Published surveys give ranges by region. Accelerance’s summary of November 24, 2025 reports senior developer rates of $31–$41 per hour in Asia, $60–$75 in Latin America and $64–$76 in Europe. Rates inside a region vary by country, seniority and specialty. Easital does not publish its rates.
Why outsource software development to Bangladesh?
Two facts about the location matter to a buyer. Bangladesh is in Asia, the region with the lowest rate ranges in the Accelerance summary cited above, and at GMT+6 its afternoon overlaps the European morning. Beyond that, judge a vendor there as you would anywhere: by live work, access to engineers and contract terms.
Tell us what you want to outsource
Describe the product, the team you have today and your time zone. We reply by email with questions and a proposed first step.
Easital is an AI and SaaS engineering company that takes AI software to production, and runs AI products of its own. Founded in 2019.