Offshore development
centre (ODC).
A dedicated, staffed, fully-managed delivery arm in our region. Yours to direct, ours to run. We handle infrastructure, hiring, security, and ops. You keep the roadmap and the IP.
For businesses in the UK, the US and the Gulf. Agree your team, delivery responsibilities, working-hour overlap and data-residency needs during discovery.
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 hire from a pool we built over 18 years. Our attrition is half the industry average, so the engineers in your pod tend to stay.
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.
Eighteen years of PMO practice. Planning, reporting, risk management. Your leadership sees the same metrics our leadership sees.
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.
Four weeks from signature to first ship.
An ODC stand-up follows a tight sequence. Four weeks for a small pod, up to eight for a large one. The beats:
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 your architecture reviews, and pairs with your senior engineers for two weeks. By the end of the month, they're shipping into your main branches.
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.
Which one fits
your commitment?
Three commercial shapes, one engineering standard. Pick the model that fits the problem, or ask us and we'll suggest one.
Quick heuristic. Pick Dedicated Teams when you own the product and want a cross-functional pod running a roadmap. Pick an Offshore Development Centre when you need a long-running engineering arm in-region with governance at scale. Pick Staff Augmentation when your team is the driver and you need specific seniors plugged in for weeks, not quarters.
Questions about offshore development centres.
Can't find what you're looking for? Email hello@cloudini.co and we'll reply within one working day.
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.
You own 100% of the IP. Every deliverable ships under a contractual IP transfer. Repos, assets, models, and documentation are yours from the first commit and remain yours regardless of engagement status.
ODC setup is a four-week runway covering operating charter, hiring plan, infrastructure provisioning, access controls, and security sign-off. 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.
Either side gives 60 days' notice to resize or wind the ODC down, with no redundancy cost borne by you. 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.
Let's build from here.
Thirty minutes with an engineer who builds. No sales, no drip campaign. If we're the wrong fit we'll tell you and point you somewhere better.