Firespark Solutions — Offshore engineering teams that own the outcome

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

Eleven products. Five sectors. All ours.

Not case studies from other people's projects. 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 ↗ — 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

Operations

Audes Field service management
Valam Programme ops for field teams
Kura Verifiable member elections

Health & Finance

Salud Frontline health worker companion
Saldobooks Finance for social purpose organisations

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

Technology Lead

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

Harikrishna Sarma

Strategy Lead

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

Gopakumar Viswanathan

Innovation Lead

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

Atul Sarma

Customer Lead

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

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.

Discovery sprint

2 weeks · pricing on request

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.

Pod

3 months · monthly team fee

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.

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. 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

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