Where is your team based?
In Islamabad, Pakistan (UTC+5). We work remotely with European companies and do not have an EU office, EU entity or EU representative. Our working day overlaps four hours with Central European Time in winter and five in summer.
Can an offshore company be GDPR compliant?
The GDPR does not certify suppliers as compliant; it sets obligations for you as controller and for your processors. An offshore team can work within it when three things are in place: an Article 28 data processing agreement, a transfer safeguard for the country it works from (for Pakistan, which has no adequacy decision, usually the Standard Contractual Clauses), and a project designed so the team needs as little personal data as possible.
Which SCC module applies?
If your company is the controller and the development team processes personal data on your behalf, the usual starting point is Module Two, controller to processor. If your company is itself a processor for your customers, for example a B2B SaaS provider, Module Three, processor to processor, may apply. Your data protection officer or adviser should confirm the roles.
Does the EU AI Act apply to AI features you build?
The AI Act sets obligations according to what an AI system does and the risk it carries, not where the developers sit. Most AI features carry no specific obligations; chatbots and generated content carry transparency duties; uses listed as high-risk carry strict requirements. We classify the feature during discovery, build any required disclosure into the interface, and keep records of the models, data sources and evaluations used.
Do you build AI software for European companies?
Yes. We build AI features, integrations and agents into products for European companies, under the same approach as the rest of our work: the feature is classified under the EU AI Act during discovery, transparency duties for chatbots and generated content are built into the interface, and models and data can stay in an EU region in cloud accounts you control. We do not claim any AI certification.
Can models and data stay in the EU?
Yes. Data can be hosted in an EU region in cloud accounts you control. For the model itself, we either use enterprise API endpoints whose terms exclude training on your data, with zero data retention where the provider offers it and EU processing where it is available, or deploy open-weight models inside your own cloud environment so prompts never leave it.
How does a dedicated team differ from staff augmentation?
With staff augmentation you hire individual developers who work inside your team, usually billed by the hour, and you manage them. Our dedicated team is a team of our engineers on a monthly contract that owns delivery of a product or workstream against your priorities, with our own reviews, testing and handover. We do not offer staff augmentation.
Fixed price or time and materials?
Builds are fixed-scope: we agree a written scope, then quote and deliver it in fixed two-week sprints. Once a product is live and priorities change month to month, ongoing work moves to a monthly contract, because next month's priorities cannot be fixed today. We do not bill open-ended hourly time for builds.
Do you understand that Europe isn't one market?
Yes. Time zones, languages, consumer and tax rules and, for the UK, data protection law differ by country. We plan the languages, locale formats, VAT display and data regions your product needs in discovery, and we treat the UK separately because it uses UK GDPR and its own transfer rules rather than the EU SCCs.
Can we take development in-house later?
Yes, and we plan for it. The repository lives in your own GitHub or GitLab organisation from day one, hosting and third-party accounts are in your company's name, and handover includes setup and deployment documentation, environment configuration and a walkthrough for your engineers.
How much does custom software development cost?
As a software development company for Europe, our published planning ranges are roughly £25,000–£45,000 for a SaaS or web app MVP, £40,000 to over £80,000 for internal tools and £60,000 to over £120,000 for customer portals; our SaaS cost guide puts a focused B2B SaaS MVP at $25,000–$65,000. The MVP cost calculator shows an indicative range for your scope, including in euros. Every project is quoted in writing after discovery.
Do you work with startups in Europe?
Yes. We work with European founders building a first product and startups growing an existing one. You work directly with founder and lead engineer Obaid Tariq, and the first step is usually validating and scoping the idea, so the budget goes on what proves it.
Who owns the software you build?
You do. You receive full IP in the bespoke source code, database design and documentation we write for you, with the exact wording in the contract and our terms of service. Under EU law the employer rule for software does not cover outside contractors, so ownership has to be assigned in writing, and our terms do that.