Offshore development
centre (ODC).
A dedicated, staffed, fully-managed delivery arm under an agreed operating model. Yours to direct, ours to run. We handle infrastructure, hiring, security, and ops. You keep the roadmap and the IP.
Cloudini’s registered office is in London. Team location, working hours and access requirements need to be agreed for the proposed engagement.
Not outsourcing. A real extension of your org.
Cloudini is based in London, United Kingdom. Our registered office is First Floor 10 Hampden Square, Southgate, London, England, N14 5JR. We serve clients across the UK and internationally.
We handle the plumbing. Hiring, HR, infrastructure, compliance, physical and digital security. You handle the product. The team reports to your leadership and builds on your roadmap.
Signs you need an ODC, not another contractor.
An ODC is overkill for a single project and right for a long-running engineering commitment. The four patterns we see when it's the right move:
You're past the contractor ceiling.
You've tried contract shops and the quality floor keeps dropping. An ODC gives you a stable team with tenure, career paths, and real accountability rather than a rotating roster.
Your cost structure needs fixing.
Headcount cost is strangling the roadmap. An ODC keeps the same delivery standard at a structurally lower blended rate, without outsourcing the product.
You want 24-hour coverage.
Your in-house team is one timezone. Add an ODC in another and you get follow-the-sun delivery. Handoffs at end-of-day, overnight progress, warm context the next morning.
You need to scale without a long hire cycle.
Ramping 20 engineers locally takes nine months. An ODC can scale a pod by five engineers a month without cannibalising your existing team's focus.
What an ODC gives you from day one.
Everything below is in the setup plan we sign on week one. If we don't hit it, it's on us, not on you.
Full operational control, from your desk.
Enterprise-grade security and compliance.
A real bench of senior, vetted engineers.
Infrastructure and HR handled end-to-end.
Scalable up or down, without redundancy cost.
Follow-the-sun delivery across timezones.
The commitments we put in writing.
An ODC is a long contract. The commitments that make it worth signing, and the ones we reopen at every quarterly review:
IP protection, unambiguous.
Every line of code, every asset, every model is yours. Contractual IP transfer with each deliverable, no exceptions, no negotiation on renewal.
Operational transparency.
Shared dashboards, open repos, attended standups. You can see what the team is doing in real time without having to ask.
Knowledge that stays.
Written architecture decisions, runbooks, onboarding docs, maintained in your systems. If we leave, you keep everything that matters.
Access to the top of the market.
We scope recruitment around the skills your project needs and agree availability and onboarding before work starts.
Loyalty and commitment, tested.
Every engineer on an ODC is a full-time employee, not a contractor. They care about the product because it's theirs too.
Mature project management.
Planning, reporting and risk management throughout delivery. Your leadership has access to the agreed delivery metrics.
Quality gates, not quality hopes.
Coverage targets, static analysis, code review SLAs, release quality thresholds. All in the statement of work, all measured.
A model that fits your shape.
Fully managed, co-managed, or build-operate-transfer. We adapt the operating model to your governance, not the other way around.
A scoped plan from setup to delivery.
An ODC setup follows an agreed sequence. Timing depends on team size, recruitment, access and onboarding requirements:
Scoping and operating model.
We co-design the team shape, reporting structure, governance, and security posture. You pick fully managed, co-managed, or build-operate-transfer. Outcome: a signed operating charter.
Hiring and infrastructure.
We recruit against your bar. You interview and veto every role. In parallel, we stand up the physical space, network, devices, access controls, and tooling integrations with your systems.
Onboarding and ramp.
The team goes through your onboarding, attends architecture reviews and pairs with your engineers. Access, review requirements and initial delivery milestones are agreed before work starts.
Steady-state delivery.
Sprints, retros, planning. All in your rituals and your tools. A delivery lead on our side acts as a second pair of hands for your engineering manager.
Quarterly review and evolution.
Every quarter we reopen the operating charter. Team shape, bottlenecks, costs, retention, roadmap fit. Nothing is frozen. The ODC evolves with the product.
Compare responsibilities before choosing.
These models describe different working arrangements. Confirm staffing, availability, fees, access and ownership in the project agreement.
Start with the work you need done and the management responsibilities you want to retain. Review the proposed team and terms before choosing a model.
Questions about offshore development centres.
Can't find what you're looking for? Email hello@cloudini.co and we can discuss your requirements.
An offshore development centre is a dedicated, managed engineering team focused on your product and working to your standards. Cloudini coordinates engagements through our London office; team structure, working-hour overlap, security and access are agreed during discovery.
A dedicated team is a single pod. An ODC is a durable capability made up of multiple pods. An ODC adds shared infrastructure, a long operating charter, and a level of security, governance, and scale that a single pod doesn't need.
Ownership, licences, repository access and handover are agreed in the project contract.
ODC setup covers an operating charter, hiring plan, infrastructure provisioning, access controls and security sign-off, with timing agreed around your requirements. We can share the complete setup checklist before contract.
Yes. Build-operate-transfer is a supported model. We stand up the ODC, run it for 12 to 36 months, then transfer the team and operating company to you. The transfer terms sit in the original contract, so there are no late surprises.
Security is enterprise-grade from day one. Physical access controls, segregated networks, managed devices, background-checked staff, and formal operational controls. We add custom compliance bolt-ons for regulated industries and walk your security team through the stack before signature.
The minimum standalone ODC is eight engineers. Below that, the Dedicated Teams model is a better fit. There is no upper bound. We've run ODCs from 8 to 200 engineers.
The operating agreement sets the notice period, responsibilities and any costs when resizing or closing the ODC. We handle the offboarding, the IP handover, and the team redeployment. The exit path is documented in the original contract.
An AI practice inside your ODC.
Build AI capability into the offshore centre: a small team that owns model choice, evaluation and AI features across your products, and trains the rest of the centre.
Explore AI development- AI agent developmentAgents that plan, call your tools and hand off to people when unsure.
- Generative AI developmentText, image and document generation built into your product.
- LLM integration and RAGLanguage models wired into your systems and answering from your documents.
- AI chatbot developmentCustomer and internal assistants that answer from your own data.
- AI consultingUse-case selection, data readiness and governance before you build.
As well as being exceptional technically, they consistently invest the time to understand the product and suggest how it can be enhanced and improved.
Discuss your software project.
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