How it works
Eight stages, and you only act in four of them
This is the full lifecycle, including the parts that happen without you. We publish it because the most common reason offshore engagements fail is that nobody agreed on the process before the work started.
- Stage 01You → StratEdge
You submit a brief
Four steps, about four minutes. Project type, what you need built, budget band, timeline. Attach anything you have — designs, a spec, a competitor screenshot, a Loom.
We reply within one business day with either a scoping call or an honest reason we are not the right fit. A fast no is worth more to you than a slow maybe.
- Stage 02StratEdge
We scope it properly
A 45-minute call, then written scope: what is in, what is explicitly out, assumptions, and the questions we still need answered.
Most failed offshore engagements fail here, not in the code. Ambiguity that survives scoping becomes a dispute in month three. We would rather over-invest in this step.
- Stage 03StratEdge → You
You get a fixed proposal
Milestones with acceptance criteria, a fixed price per milestone, a timeline, and terms. No hourly estimates that drift.
Acceptance criteria are the important part. Each milestone lists what must be true for it to count as done. That is what your approval is measured against — and what our internal QA reviews against before you ever see it.
- Stage 04You → StratEdge → Bench
You sign and we staff
E-signature in the portal, 30% deposit, and we publish the work internally to our vetted bench. Qualified engineers apply; we assign.
The internal posting is sanitized — your company name, contacts, and contract value are not in it. Engineers apply on the technical scope alone.
- Stage 05Bench ↔ StratEdge
They build, we manage
You get progress against milestones, not activity reports. Blockers surface to your PM, who resolves them or escalates to you with a recommendation.
You are never asked to arbitrate between contractors, chase a timezone, or explain the same requirement twice. That is the work you are paying us to do.
- Stage 06StratEdge
Internal QA gates every milestone
A senior reviewer checks the deliverable against each acceptance criterion. A failed review goes back to the engineer at our cost.
This is enforced in our own systems: a milestone physically cannot move to delivered without a passing review on record. It is not a policy someone can skip under deadline pressure.
- Stage 07StratEdge → You
We deliver, you approve
A written summary, the artifacts, and the environment. You review against the same acceptance criteria and either approve or request revision.
If the deliverable misses the criteria, that is a defect and we fix it at no charge. If you want something the criteria did not cover, that is a change order with a price you approve first.
- Stage 08StratEdge → You
You own it
On approval the work is yours: source, documentation, credentials, and the running environment. Everything is transferred in a written handover, not left in someone else’s account.
Full IP assignment is contractual, not conditional. Nothing about the delivery depends on an ongoing relationship with us — though most clients keep one, which is the outcome we design for.
Who you talk to — and who you do not.
Our engineers work behind StratEdge. By default, you do not communicate with them directly, and they do not know who you are.
Why we do it this way
- One accountable point of contact instead of a group chat with three timezones
- Requirements are translated once, by someone whose job is translating them
- Scope disputes are resolved by us, not negotiated by you with a contractor
- An engineer leaving is our staffing problem, not your project restart
When we open it up
On dedicated pod engagements, where an engineer is embedded with your team for months, pretending they do not know who you are would be theater. Those engagements run with disclosed identity under an executed NDA, with your written consent.
On fixed-scope projects it stays closed. If unmediated contractor access is what you actually want, a self-serve platform will serve you better than we will — and we would rather tell you that on the first call.
Still deciding?
A discovery sprint is the low-risk way to test all of this. Two weeks, a fixed fee, and you walk away with a technical spec and a working prototype whether or not you continue with us.
Have a project in mind?
Bring us the problem. StratEdge scopes it, staffs it, manages it, and delivers it — one accountable company from start to finish.