Comparisons
Compare the options honestly.
Dedicated team or staff augmentation. Offshore, nearshore or onshore. Nepal or the alternatives. Written for people mid-evaluation, including the cases where the answer is not us.
Size a team ↗Engagement models
Which shape of help you are actually buying.
A.
Dedicated team vs staff augmentation vs outsourcing
Three models that get quoted against each other and behave nothing alike once the work starts.
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B.
What goes into the cost of a dedicated team
The line items behind a monthly figure, and which of them you pay whether or not they appear on an invoice.
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C.
Offshore, nearshore or onshore
A total-cost comparison rather than an hourly-rate one: management load, rework, turnover, decision latency and exit cost.
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D.
Nearshore LatAm vs offshore Asia
Timezone overlap against rate and retention, for US buyers weighing the two.
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Choosing a vendor
How to evaluate whoever you shortlist, including us.
E.
Questions to ask before you sign
The ones that are awkward to answer if the underlying practice is not real — people, review, exits, commercials.
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F.
Red flags to catch early
Twelve signals that show up before a contract does, and what each one usually means.
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G.
Why teams keep changing people
Where churn comes from structurally, and what to check about how a vendor sources engineers.
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H.
The vendor lock-in checklist
What to verify about repositories, cloud accounts and documentation before lock-in becomes your problem.
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Where and who
Location, and what it actually changes.
I.
Why Nepal — not India, not Eastern Europe, not LatAm
The case for and against, written without pretending the trade-offs do not exist.
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J.
Nepal as an engineering destination
What buyers usually get wrong about the market, in both directions.
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K.
Time zones as a feature
Kathmandu is UTC+5:45. What that means in practice for a European or US working day.
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L.
Switching vendors
If you already have a vendor, this is the comparison that matters — and the transition it implies.
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Size a team against your own numbers.
A technical call, not a sales call: an hour with a Hazesoft tech lead on your architecture and constraints. If we're not the right shape of help, we'll say so.