Frequently Asked Questions

A dedicated development team is a group of developers who work exclusively on your product, full-time, for the length of your engagement. You direct their day-to-day work as if they were in-house staff, while Empiric Infotech handles employment, infrastructure, and continuity. It suits sustained product work that runs six to eighteen months, rather than a fixed-scope project or a one-off task.

Staff augmentation is a model where you add skilled developers to your existing team to fill a capacity or skills gap, without hiring permanent employees. The developers follow your managers and your process, while the provider stays their legal employer. At Empiric Infotech this is the same engagement we deliver as a dedicated developer or dedicated team: full-time, exclusive capacity at a flat $2,000 per developer per month.

Both give you developers who work exclusively on your product, full-time, under your direction. The difference is structure. Staff augmentation slots individual developers into your existing team, reporting to your managers. A dedicated team is a standalone group, sometimes with its own lead, that owns a product or module. Empiric Infotech supports both at $2,000 per developer per month with no long-term contract.

With staff augmentation you direct the developers and own the outcome: they follow your roadmap, your process, and your priorities. With managed services the provider takes responsibility for a defined deliverable and manages the work itself. Staff augmentation gives you more control and flexibility; managed services gives you less day-to-day involvement. Empiric Infotech works on the staff augmentation model, so you stay in control of what gets built and when.

An offshore development center is a dedicated team set up in another country to work as a long-term extension of your business. It gives you stable, full-time capacity at a lower cost than hiring locally, without the overhead of opening your own foreign entity. Empiric Infotech provides this model from India for companies in the USA, Europe, and Australia, with the team working exclusively on your product under your direction.

Marketplaces like Upwork and Toptal are built for hourly, task-based work, and the contractor is usually juggling several clients at once. A dedicated developer from Empiric Infotech works full-time and exclusively on your product for a flat $2,000 per month, not an hourly meter. You get predictable cost, continuity, and a developer who learns your codebase, which suits a six to eighteen month build far better than a marketplace gig.

Choose a dedicated developer or team if you have ongoing product work over six months or more and want predictable monthly cost and continuity. Choose hourly if your need is short, variable, or hard to scope upfront. If you are filling a specific skills gap on an existing team, that is staff augmentation, which we deliver under the same model. If you are unsure, contact us and we will recommend the honest fit.

A dedicated developer costs a flat $2,000 per month for full-time, exclusive work of about 160 to 172 hours. In Europe the rate is EUR 2,000 and in Australia it is AUD 3,000 per month. That is one predictable invoice with no hourly meter. If you prefer hourly, standard development is $15 per hour and AI engineering is $25 per hour. There are no setup fees and no long-term contract.

The $2,000 monthly fee covers one developer working full-time and exclusively on your product, about 160 to 172 hours per month. It includes their salary, employment, hardware, office, internet, and continuity cover. You direct the work; we handle everything behind it. There are no hidden costs, no recruitment fees, and no charge if you cancel during the seven-day trial because the fit is wrong.

Both. Most clients choose the monthly model: a flat $2,000 per developer per month (EUR 2,000 in Europe, AUD 3,000 in Australia) for full-time, exclusive capacity. If your work is short or variable, you can engage developers hourly instead, at $15 per hour for standard development and $25 per hour for AI engineering. The monthly model is more cost-effective for any sustained engagement.

You receive a single invoice per developer each month, billed upfront at the start of the month. There is one flat figure, no hourly tracking, and no surprise line items. Payment is accepted by bank transfer or card. For the first month, the initial seven days are a risk-free trial: if the fit is wrong, we refund that invoice in full within five business days.

We bill in the currency that matches your region: US dollars for companies in the USA, euros for Europe, and Australian dollars for Australia. The dedicated developer rate is $2,000, EUR 2,000, or AUD 3,000 per month respectively. For clients in the USA we also provide a completed W-8BEN-E so your tax and accounts handling is clean.

Yes, usually by a wide margin. A full-time in-house developer in the USA, UK, or Australia costs well over $100,000 a year once salary, taxes, benefits, hardware, and office are included. A dedicated developer from Empiric Infotech is $2,000 per month, around $24,000 a year, for comparable full-time capacity. You also avoid recruitment time and cost, and you can stop with no severance.

No. There are no setup fees, no recruitment fees, and no long-term contract. You pay one flat monthly fee per developer and can stop with seven days notice at any time. The model is deliberately month-to-month, so you keep a developer because the work is good, not because a contract locks you in.

Start by telling us about your product, your stack, and the seniority you need. Within about one business day we introduce one developer who fits, and you meet them in a working session. Once you approve, the developer starts within 48 hours and joins your standups and tools from day one. The first seven days are a risk-free trial, so you can begin with no real risk.

The first seven calendar days of every engagement are a trial period. The developer joins your daily standups, gets access to your repository, and starts shipping real work. On day seven you decide: continue, or cancel for a 100 percent refund of the first invoice within five business days. There are no questions asked and no clawback for the work done. The trial means a bad fit never costs you a full month.

A developer can start within 48 hours of you approving the fit. We assess your requirement in about one business day, introduce a matching developer, run a short introduction call, and onboard them onto your tools and repository on day one of the engagement. If you need a rare or specialised skill set, the timeline can be slightly longer, and we will tell you that upfront.

No. There is no minimum term and no fixed contract length. Billing is month-to-month and you can stop with seven days notice. Most engagements naturally run six to eighteen months because that is the length of real product work, but that is your choice, not a contractual obligation.

Tell us the stack, the seniority level, and the kind of product you are building. We assess fit against those before the engagement and introduce one developer who matches, rather than a list for you to screen. You meet them in a working session and review their background before you commit. If the fit still turns out wrong, the seven-day trial and free replacement guarantee cover you.

Our developers are based in India and keep meaningful overlap with each region we serve: about four hours with the US East Coast morning, five to seven hours of daily overlap with the UK and Europe, and the afternoon with Australian eastern time. The working rhythm is async-first, so progress continues outside the overlap window and you get a clear handover each day.

Your developer works inside your own tools: your Slack, your project tracker, your repository, and your standups. They are reachable during your overlap hours and follow your team's process and cadence. You assign and prioritise work exactly as you would for an in-house engineer. We do not insert a layer of account managers between you and the developer.

You do. You direct the work, set priorities, run standups, and review output, just as you would with an in-house developer. Empiric Infotech handles everything behind that: employment, payroll, hardware, infrastructure, leave cover, and continuity. If you prefer a managed structure, a dedicated team can include a lead who coordinates delivery on your behalf.

Because your developer works inside your own tools and standups, you see progress in real time through your tracker and repository, not a separate status report. You get a handover at the end of the developer's working day. If you want a regular written summary or a check-in with us, we set that up; the default is full transparency through your existing process.

Yes. You can add developers as the work grows or reduce the team as it settles, with seven days notice on any change. Because billing is per developer per month with no lock-in, scaling costs you nothing in penalties. This is one of the main reasons companies choose a dedicated team over permanent hiring for work whose size changes over time.

If a developer is not the right fit, we replace them at no cost. In the first seven days you can also cancel outright for a full refund. After that, the free replacement guarantee applies for the life of the engagement: tell us what is not working, we introduce a replacement, and we manage the handover so your timeline is protected.

You do, fully. Every engagement is governed by an NDA and an IP-assignment agreement signed before work starts, which transfers all rights, title, and interest in the code, designs, and documentation to your company. The developer commits to your repository and works in your accounts. Empiric Infotech retains nothing. We are happy to sign your own legal template or a standard one such as Y Combinator or Stripe Atlas paperwork.

Yes. We sign a non-disclosure agreement before any engagement begins, covering your product, your data, and anything shared during discovery. You can use your own NDA template or ours. The NDA is paired with an IP-assignment clause, so both confidentiality and ownership are settled before day one.

Your developer works inside your own accounts and infrastructure, your repository, your cloud, and your project tools, so your data stays under your control and access. We sign an NDA before the engagement, and developers work exclusively on your product without sharing it across clients. For clients in Europe we provide a GDPR data processing agreement and standard contractual clauses.

The engagement runs on a simple month-to-month agreement with no minimum term. Either side can end it with seven days notice. The agreement includes the NDA and IP-assignment terms, the monthly fee, and the trial and replacement guarantees. There is no auto-renewing lock-in and no termination penalty.

Yes. For clients in the USA we provide a completed W-8BEN-E so your accounts and tax withholding are handled cleanly. For clients in Europe we provide a GDPR data processing agreement and standard contractual clauses. If your finance or legal team needs other standard documentation, tell us and we will provide it.

Our developers cover modern web, mobile, and backend development across more than 60 technology combinations. Common stacks include React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Django, Flask, the MERN stack, Flutter, and native iOS and Android, along with UI and UX design. We match a developer to your specific stack and seniority requirement rather than assigning whoever is free.

Yes. We build AI into products using Claude, GPT, and Gemini APIs, including AI agents, chatbots, voice agents, MCP servers, and workflow automation with tools such as n8n. AI engineering is available on the same models as the rest of our work: $2,000 per developer per month, or $25 per hour if you prefer hourly.

Yes. Quality assurance is part of how our developers work, including automated tests and manual checks before code ships. For larger engagements or a dedicated team you can also add a dedicated QA engineer under the same monthly model. We treat testing as part of delivery, not an optional extra billed separately.

Yes. Because the engagement is ongoing and month-to-month, the same developer who built your product can continue to maintain it: bug fixes, updates, security patches, and new features. There is no separate support contract to negotiate. You keep the developer for as long as the work justifies it and stop when it does not.

A change in scope does not change your invoice. Because you pay a flat monthly fee for a developer's time rather than for a fixed deliverable, you simply re-prioritise what they work on. This is a core advantage of the dedicated model over fixed-scope contracts, where every change means a new estimate and a renegotiation.

Yes. Many engagements start with an existing or legacy codebase rather than a blank slate. Your developer begins with a structured review of the code, dependencies, and documentation, flags risks, and then works within your existing repository and standards. The seven-day trial gives you an early read on how well the developer has picked up the codebase.

Empiric Infotech is an India-based software company. Our developers work from India and serve clients in the USA, Europe, and Australia remotely, with deliberate time-zone overlap for each region. Being India-based is what makes the $2,000 per month full-time model possible while keeping the quality you would expect from a local hire.

We work with funded startups, scaleups, and software agencies in the USA, Europe, and Australia that need sustained engineering capacity. Most engagements run six to eighteen months across custom software, web and mobile apps, and AI integration. We work with companies that want to direct the work themselves, not hand off a fixed-scope project and step away.

The dedicated model fits companies past the earliest stage that have real, ongoing product work and a budget for full-time capacity over several months. That is typically a funded startup, a growing software company, or an agency extending its delivery team. It is less suited to a one-off task or a very early idea with no defined product yet.

You can reach us through the contact form on this site with a short description of your product, your stack, and the skills you need. We reply within one business day, usually with an honest recommendation on the right engagement model and a developer who fits. There is no cost to talk and no obligation to proceed.