A SaaS Company Replaced Vendor Engineering with a 50-Person Captive Team
A US-based SaaS company moved from $4M in contracted engineering to an owned 50-engineer India team with zero first-year attrition.
Engineers
First-Year Attrition
Months to Full Scale
Model
The Challenge
The client needed to build a significant India operation quickly, with full compliance from day one and a clear path to operational independence. Their existing vendor arrangements were creating knowledge silos, and they had no institutional ownership of the work being produced offshore.
Our Approach
- Assessed the operational requirements and recommended the optimal GCC model
- Registered the India entity and completed all regulatory filings within six weeks
- Stood up the office infrastructure including IT, security, and facilities
- Recruited and onboarded the initial team against specific technical and cultural criteria
- Established HR, payroll, and compliance operations running on schedule from month one
- Built a transition plan for moving to full client ownership over the agreed timeline
The Result
By month twelve: 50 engineers across full-stack development, QA, and DevOps. Same repos, same CI/CD pipeline, same code review standards as the US team. The vendor contract was not renewed. Direct cost savings funded a data engineering expansion in year two.
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Methodology and Limitations
- Evidence class
- Client confidential
- Baseline
- Prior contracted-engineering spend through a staffing vendor
- Period
- From first hire through steady-state team
- Scope and attribution
- Captive product engineering, QA and application support inside the client’s entity.
- Client naming
- Withheld under a confidentiality agreement
- Reviewed by
- Veeral Lakhani, CEO
Client identity withheld under a confidentiality agreement. Figures depend on baseline, scope and period and are not represented as reproducible for every company. Awaiting the signed evidence pack before any figure is restated as independently verified.