Offshore teams that own the outcome, not just fill the seat.

We're a product studio in India with 15 products of our own across five sectors. We now put small, accountable teams on other people's roadmaps — a named lead, three to five people, priced per team rather than per head.

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15
products built, shipped
and still running
5
sectors, from agriculture
to public health
4
leads with 25+ years
of experience each
4h
of live US overlap,
committed contractually
The model

Most people arrive here looking for staff augmentation

Here's what we do instead, and why we think it works better. If you genuinely just want people you'll manage yourself, we'll tell you — and point you somewhere good.

Staff augmentation

You get people

  • You manage them day to day
  • You own the outcome
  • You carry the coordination cost
  • Priced per person, per hour
  • Churn is your problem
A Firespark pod

You get a team that owns it

  • A named lead is accountable for the workstream
  • 3–5 people: lead, engineers, fractional QA and design
  • We carry the coordination cost
  • Priced per team, per month
  • Continuity is what you're buying

The difference is accountability, not headcount. That's the whole idea.

Why we don't do individual placement. Not out of principle — it just doesn't work well enough for us to stand behind it. A person dropped into your team without context or a lead produces exactly what you'd expect, and we'd rather not sell it.
Proof

Delivered on other people's roadmaps.

Client work first: what we were handed, the constraints we worked under, and what's running now.

Hospitality · Workforce management · UK

Modernising a live product alongside the in-house team

UK hospitality workforce management company
4 → 12developers as the work grew
2+ yearsof continuous sprints
2 releasesa month, on two-week sprints
Starting point
A live .NET product with a JavaScript, HTML and CSS front end, and mobile apps due for a revamp.
Constraints
Working inside the client's in-house team, on UK hours overlap, through their Jira and Zendesk workflow — and shipping into a product customers were using every day.
What we built
A new Angular UI across the web product and mobile apps rebuilt in React Native, delivered alongside ongoing enhancements to the .NET platform.
Where it is now
Still live. Once the enhancements were complete we closed the engagement at eight people and handed over. The in-house team runs the product today.
.NETAngularReact NativeJavaScript
Field service · Operations

Digitising a manual field service operation, from requirements to launch

Equipment servicing business
6person team
16 weeksfrom requirements to launch
Livestill supported by us
Starting point
Service jobs, machine and warranty history, preventive maintenance schedules and parts requests all tracked manually, with no shared system between engineers in the field and the office.
Constraints
No spec to work from. We had to understand the existing process, design the product and launch it within 16 weeks.
What we built
A mobile app for field engineers, with the day's jobs, navigation to site and full machine history. A web portal for the office, covering maintenance scheduling and forecasting, tickets, parts tracking and attendance, on the same live data.
Where it is now
Live, and we still support it for the customer. The platform is Argos, listed under Operations below.
PythonReactReact NativePostgreSQL
Government research · Forestry

Forest genetic resources, from paper forms to one platform

Government genetics research organisation
5person team
8 weeksto first release
Live since 2025still supported and extended by us
Starting point
Field data captured on paper and spread across platforms and formats, with nothing linking field collection to lab analysis.
Constraints
Field teams working offline in forests. Government security requirements. Five user roles, from field associates to senior scientists, each with different access.
What we built
An offline Android tablet app with GPS tagging for the field, a web portal for management, and five linked databases running from field collection to the seed gene bank. Connected to the lab's image analysers and X-ray machines.
Where it is now
Collection, storage, analysis and reporting run on one secure, queryable system across research stations. Live for over a year, and the same team is still supporting and extending it.
FlutterDjangoAngularPostgreSQL

And fifteen products of our own

Software our team built, shipped and still operates — which is why our engineers think about adoption rather than features.

Built by our sister product studio, dy/dx labs ↗. Firespark is the group's services arm — same leads, same engineers.

Agriculture

  • Kaani Contract farming, farm to factory
  • Inai Multilingual AI advisory at scale
  • Paalam Dairy supply chain
  • PlotPilot Field trial data for agri science

Education

  • Playground Employability simulations
  • Hyv Campus placement platform
  • Founding Night A 16-hour overnight startup simulation
  • Founder's Table A discovery-led entrepreneurship bootcamp
  • Venba Observation notes, spoken

Operations

  • Argos Field service management
  • Valam Programme ops for field teams
  • Kura Verifiable member elections
  • Hound Task tracker for small teams

Health & Finance

  • Salud Frontline health worker companion
  • Saldobooks Finance for social purpose organisations

What we work with

Not an exhaustive list — the tools our teams reach for most. If you're on something adjacent, ask.

PythonReact Next.jsReact Native Angular FlutterIonic ASP.NETPostgreSQLMongoDB MySQLFirebaseAWS DockerKubernetesTerraform AnsibleSeleniumAI / ML
The people

Four leads. A hundred years between them.

The people you meet are the people who do the work. There's no account layer between you and the engineers.

Guruprasad Balasubramaniam

Guruprasad Balasubramaniam

Technology Lead

28+ years in large-scale enterprise software and global project delivery. Technology advisor to businesses and startups.

LinkedIn ↗
Harikrishna Sarma

Harikrishna Sarma

Strategy Lead

Teaching Professor of Practice, Iowa State. 35 years at General Motors across engineering, supply chain and IT.

LinkedIn ↗
Gopakumar Viswanathan

Gopakumar Viswanathan

Innovation Lead

A decade teaching at a business school, at the intersection of education, entrepreneurship and innovation.

LinkedIn ↗
Atul Sarma

Atul Sarma

Customer Lead

23+ years across business development, marketing and strategy. Certified Financial Planner and adjunct faculty.

LinkedIn ↗

We're small enough that this is still true.

How it starts

Two weeks before you commit to anything

You don't sign a long engagement to find out whether we're any good. You buy a short one, and it tells you.

01

Discovery sprint

2 weeks · from $5,000

One senior engineer plus an engagement lead. You get a written assessment of what's solid and what's risk, a working slice of something real, and a delivery plan with team shape and cost.

See a sample assessment →
02

Pod

3 months · from $9,000/month

A lead, two to three engineers, fractional QA and design. 30 days' notice after month three. Half the sprint fee is credited against month one.

03

Whatever comes next

Negotiated

A second pod, or full ownership of a roadmap area. Most of our engagements grow this way — but only after we've earned it.

If the sprint tells us we're not the right team for the work, we'll say so — and you'll still have the assessment.
Fit

Where we're not the right call

Almost no vendor puts this on their website. We'd rather lose the wrong engagement in week one than the right relationship in month six.

More than six hours of live US overlap

Nearshore beats us on this and it's structural. We'll happily point you to someone good.

Forty engineers by next quarter

We're small. Scale is a real constraint, not a modest one.

Individual contractors you'll manage

We don't do individual placement — not out of principle, it just doesn't work well enough for us to stand behind it.

The cheapest possible hourly rate

You can find cheaper. Pods start at $9,000 a month for a lead, two to three engineers, and fractional QA and design. If lowest cost per hour is the goal, we're genuinely not your best option.

On time zones, said plainly: we're in India. We commit to four hours of live overlap with a US team, contractually — and we won't pretend that's the same thing as sitting in your time zone. For most product teams four focused hours is enough. If it isn't for yours, that's worth knowing now rather than in month three.

Security & compliance

What we can answer today

We share what we know and what we don't. That includes our compliance position.

Contracting

US entity available for contracting. Standard MSA and SOW, IP assigned to you on deliverables, mutual NDA.

Data protection

GDPR-ready DPA with standard contractual clauses. India DPDP Act compliant. Data residency configurable by engagement.

Access control

Least-privilege access, per-engagement isolation, offboarding within 24 hours, no client data on personal devices.

Security practices

Encryption at rest and in transit, regular access reviews, and security requirements scoped into every engagement from day one rather than bolted on afterward.

Let's talk

Who we're looking for

If one of these sounds like you, a twenty-minute call will tell us both whether it's worth going further.

  • A product team carrying more roadmap than people
  • Anyone building for farmers, health workers, students or field operations
  • Companies already outsourcing and unhappy with what they're getting
  • Agencies and SIs who need offshore delivery they'd rather not build

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