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Your own offshore engineering hub. Without the five-year learning curve.

Location strategy, entity setup, hiring and operating model for a capability center you own.

Let's Build Together

One call with a senior engineer. A straight answer on what it would take.

Illustration: Global Capability Center (GCC) setup & advisory

Where you are. Where you’ll be.

You need this if

  • You rely on vendors for work that's core to your product
  • Hiring in your home market can't keep up
  • You're considering a GCC and want to avoid the common traps

What changes for your business

  • Owned capability at a sustainable cost
  • A center trusted with real product ownership
  • Faster ramp-up with fewer expensive mistakes

What we hand over

  1. Location and talent-market analysis
  2. Entity, legal, facilities and infrastructure setup
  3. Leadership hiring and team ramp plan
  4. Operating model, governance and KPIs

What it is

A Global Capability Center (GCC) is a wholly owned offshore or nearshore center where a company's own employees build products and run operations for the parent. Companies set one up to own scarce talent and know-how rather than rent them from vendors, usually at lower cost than home-market hiring.

Companies build global capability centers to own talent and intellectual property instead of renting it. Done badly, they become an expensive copy of an outsourcer. We help you choose the location, set up the entity and infrastructure, hire the first leaders and engineers, and design an operating model where the center owns products and outcomes, not just tickets handed over the wall.

Why now
90% of organizations will feel the IT skills shortage, costing $5.5T in delays and lost revenue. IDC, 2024
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How it runs

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    Typically 2–4 weeks

    We map the problem, your data and your systems, and agree the one number that defines success.

  2. 02

    Prove

    Typically 4–8 weeks

    A working pilot on your real data, measured against that number. Not a slide demo.

  3. 03

    Ship

    Scoped to the outcome

    Production build with security, monitoring, cost controls and documentation included, not upsold.

  4. 04

    Run

    Ongoing, optional

    We operate what we built against clear service levels, or train your team to. Your call. No lock-in.

Questions you’ll ask

Why build a GCC instead of outsourcing?
To own the talent and intellectual property instead of renting them. A well-run GCC builds institutional knowledge that stays with you, at a cost below hiring the same capacity in your home market.
What are the common traps?
Treating it as a cheaper ticket queue, hiring juniors without senior leadership, and keeping all decisions at headquarters. Centers set up that way become an expensive copy of an outsourcer. Ownership of products and outcomes is what makes them work.
Can this be combined with Build-Operate-Transfer?
Yes. Many companies have us build and run the center until it hits agreed targets, then transfer staff, tooling and leadership to them. It gets you speed early and full ownership later.

Sound familiar? Let’s fix it.

One call with a senior engineer. You’ll leave with a straight answer on what it would take.

Let's Build Together

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