Nearshore software development, aligned to a European working day.
A long-running engineering team operating one hour off Central European Time, inside your sprint, your tooling and your release cadence. One European contract, one named delivery lead.
The same working day, the same accountability.
Nearshore is not a price arbitrage label. It is an operating model: your engineers and ours plan, build and review in overlapping hours, under one accountable lead. The result is the responsiveness of an in-house team with the elasticity of a partner.
Kigali sits one hour off CET. Full overlap with the Netherlands, Germany, France, the UK and the Nordics, same stand-ups, same incident response.
Every role is interviewed by your team before joining. No anonymous pools, no quiet substitutions.
Signed with our European entity, under European law, with GDPR-aligned data handling and named DPO contacts.
A delivery lead with the mandate to decide and the obligation to report. You manage one stream, not ten queues.
When nearshore is the right model.
Product work where decisions move daily and an overnight async loop would slow the team to a crawl.
Financial services, healthcare and public sector, where European jurisdiction and audit trails are not optional.
Platforms and products where the same engineers need to compound context across feature work, modernization and operations.
From first conversation to first sprint in four to eight weeks.
- 01Scope and shape
We work with your engineering and product leadership to define the roadmap, seniority mix, stack and the outcomes the team will be accountable for.
- 02Named team proposal
You receive a proposal with named engineers, profiles, references and a delivery lead. Every role is interviewed by your team before joining.
- 03Onboarding and first sprint
The team integrates into your tooling, security perimeter and rituals. First sprint typically runs within four to eight weeks of signed engagement.
- 04Continuous operation
Monthly reviews with the delivery lead, transparent reporting, named escalation path. Roadmap changes flow through one accountable owner.
Why European organizations choose nearshore over offshore.
Large time-zone gap, async hand-offs, a wall between decisions and execution. Cheap on paper, slow in practice.
Real-time, but priced as a premium and limited to the contractors you can find on a given month.
Overlapping working day, European contracting, named team. The responsiveness of in-house, the elasticity of a partner.
About nearshore software development.
What does nearshore software development mean for a European organization?
Nearshore software development means the team building your software sits close enough in time zone to participate in your working day, same stand-ups, same release windows, same incident response. For European clients, our engineering capacity in Kigali sits one hour off Central European Time, which gives a full overlapping working day with the Netherlands, France, Germany, the UK and the Nordics.
How is nearshore different from offshore software development?
Offshore typically implies a large time-zone gap, asynchronous hand-offs, and a separation between the people who decide and the people who build. Nearshore means real-time collaboration: your engineers and ours plan together, review code in the same hours, and resolve incidents without waiting for the next morning. The economic model is similar; the operating model is fundamentally different.
Is your nearshore engagement covered by European contracts?
Yes. Engagements are signed with our European entity, governed under European law, with explicit IP assignment, GDPR-aligned data handling and named data-protection points of contact. The engineering work running from Kigali operates under the same contractual and security regime as our European delivery.
What does a nearshore development team usually look like?
A typical nearshore team is between five and twelve people: senior and mid-level engineers, a tech lead, a delivery lead, and the specialist roles your roadmap needs, QA, DevOps, data, design. Every role is named and interviewed by your team before it joins. We do not bench-stack.
How long does it take to set up a nearshore development team?
Typical lead time from signed engagement to the first sprint is four to eight weeks. That window covers role definition, named-engineer interviews, security clearances, and onboarding into your tooling, repositories and rituals.
How do you price nearshore software development?
Monthly fixed price per named role with a defined notice period. No per-ticket billing, no time-sheet auditing. Pricing reflects seniority, stack and engagement size, request a proposal and we will quote against the actual roles, not a generic rate card.
A long-running, named engineering unit accountable for delivery across your roadmap.
End-to-end product builds and modernization under European governance.
One accountable partner, not a pool of interchangeable contractors.
Explore a nearshore engineering team for your roadmap.
A thirty-minute introduction to scope the roadmap, the seniority mix and how the engagement would be governed. No prepared deck, no pressure.