Senior offshore engineers building and maintaining your software, with the cost cut and the control kept.
You want to ship faster without paying US or UK salaries for every line of code, and without losing visibility into the work. We give you a senior offshore team in Pakistan that joins your calls, works in your repos and reports against written SLAs. You interview the engineers before they start, you own the IP from the first commit, and you replace anyone who is not pulling their weight at our cost. The model saves most clients 40 to 60 percent against local rates. See where that lands in our custom software development cost guide.
What every engagement includes
Software development outsourcing means hiring an outside company to build or run your software instead of growing an in-house team. Offshore outsourcing puts that team in a lower-cost country. Timeline Digital is an offshore vendor in Pakistan serving the US, UK, UAE, Canada and Australia, with fixed overlap hours and full IP ownership for the client. It typically cuts engineering cost by 40 to 60 percent, with a fixed-scope build from $15,000 or a dedicated team from a fixed monthly rate.
Most teams hesitate on offshore for the same four reasons. Here is exactly how we handle each one in the contract and in the day-to-day work, not as a promise but as a process.
Every engineer works in business English and joins your calls. We fix overlapping hours in the contract, usually four hours a day with US and UK teams, so reviews and standups happen live. You talk to the people writing the code, not a sales layer in between.
Pakistan sits five hours ahead of UK time and is well placed for UAE and Australian mornings. The overlap window is set in writing. For US clients we shift hours so your afternoon meets our team head on, which also means bugs filed at your end of day are often fixed by your morning.
Every change goes through pull request review, automated tests and CI before it merges. We hold the same definition of done you would expect in house: tests written, edge cases handled, documentation updated. You own the repo and can read every commit.
You own the source code and all IP from the first commit, assigned in the contract. We sign your NDA, work on your infrastructure where you prefer, and give each engineer least-privilege access. No code lives on personal machines outside your repos.
The trade-off is cost against live overlap. Once you set fixed hours, offshore gives you most of the overlap at a fraction of the price.
| Model | Where the team sits | Live overlap | Cost vs local in-house |
|---|---|---|---|
| Onshore | Your own country | Full working day | Highest, full local salary |
| Nearshore | A nearby time zone | Most of the day | Around 20 to 35 percent less |
| Offshore (us) | Pakistan, fixed overlap hours | Four or more hours, set in writing | 40 to 60 percent less |
If you need someone in the next chair all day, stay onshore. If daily face time matters but budget is tight, nearshore is a fair middle. If you want the deepest cost cut and a wider pool of senior engineers, offshore works once the overlap hours are fixed and the reporting is honest. Read more about our offshore model on our Pakistan software development page, or see how a dedicated development team works for ongoing roadmaps.
From first call to steady delivery, with a real pull request before you commit to a full sprint.
We learn your product, your codebase and the outcome you need, then propose the exact engineers for the work with their CVs and rates. You interview them before anyone is assigned. Nothing starts until you approve the team and the statement of work.
The team sets up your repos, CI, ticketing and Slack, signs your NDA and IP assignment, and ships a small first task to prove the pipeline works end to end. You see a real pull request before you commit to a full sprint.
Work runs in two-week sprints with a planning call, a demo at the end, and a written summary of what shipped. Your hours of overlap with the team are fixed in the contract, so standups and reviews always happen live, not over email a day later.
You get velocity, open bugs and uptime in a weekly report. Response and fix times for production issues are written into the agreement. If a developer is not working out, we replace them at our cost, not yours.
Fixed scope for defined projects, a fixed monthly rate for ongoing teams. You own the code either way.
| Engagement | Best for | Typical range | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter project | A small tool or a clearly scoped first build | From $3,000 | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Fixed-scope build | A web app, mobile app or MVP with defined scope | $15,000 to $35,000 | 2 to 4 months |
| Dedicated team | Ongoing product work under your direction | From a fixed monthly rate | Month to month |
| Enterprise build | Large systems, integrations, compliance needs | $50,000 and up | 4 months and up |
Ranges depend on scope, seniority and integrations. Tell us what you are building and we will give a written quote or a clear monthly rate.
Software development outsourcing is hiring an outside company to build or maintain your software instead of growing an in-house team. You define the product and the outcome, and the vendor supplies the engineers, the process and the delivery. Offshore outsourcing means that vendor sits in another country, often to cut cost and widen the talent pool. Timeline Digital is an offshore vendor in Pakistan that builds and runs software for clients in the US, UK, UAE, Canada and Australia.
Offshore outsourcing to Pakistan typically cuts engineering cost by 40 to 60 percent against US, UK or Australian in-house rates, without dropping the seniority of the people doing the work. A senior full-stack engineer who costs $120,000 to $160,000 a year locally is a fraction of that through an offshore team, with no recruitment fees, benefits or office overhead. The saving is real because the cost of living and salaries differ, not because the engineers are junior.
Onshore means the vendor is in your own country: easiest to meet, most expensive. Nearshore means a nearby country in a similar time zone, a middle ground on cost and overlap. Offshore means a distant country, usually the lowest cost and the widest talent pool, with a smaller live-overlap window you manage with fixed hours. The right choice depends on how much daily face time you need versus how much budget you want to keep. Most product teams find offshore works once the overlap hours are set in writing.
You do. With Timeline Digital, you own the source code, the IP and every deliverable from the first commit, assigned to you in the contract before work starts. The code lives in your repositories on your accounts, and each engineer signs an NDA and an IP assignment. You are never locked in. If you end the engagement, you keep everything, including documentation and deployment access.
We fix a daily overlap window in the contract rather than leaving it to chance. For UK clients that is most of the working day. For US clients we shift the team later so your afternoon meets our team live for standups, demos and reviews. A useful side effect of the offshore gap is that issues you file at the end of your day are often resolved by the time you start the next, since the team is mid-shift while you sleep.
Outsource a whole project when the scope is clear and you want a fixed deliverable for a fixed price. Choose a dedicated development team when the work is ongoing, the roadmap will change, and you want engineers who stay with your product month to month under your direction. Many clients start with a fixed-scope build and move to a dedicated team once the product is live. We offer both models so you are not forced into the wrong one.
Tell us what you are building and how much daily overlap you need. We will propose the exact engineers, send you their CVs and rates, and ship a real first task before you commit to a full sprint. You own the code, you set the hours, and you can change course any time.