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Outsourcing work to India, without giving the team away.

Most outsourcing contracts hand your roadmap to a vendor's bench and bill you for the privilege. There is a second route: we recruit named people against your brief, employ them on our Bengaluru entity for $149 a month each, and they work for you alone. The work is outsourced to India; the team is still yours.

Skip the vendor bench. We recruit named people for you, employ them in India at $149 a month each, and they report to you alone.

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G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing teams in India through us.

Teams building in India. First hire to full team.

A vendor contract versus your own outsourced team.

Both routes get work done from India. Only one leaves you owning the people, the knowledge and the roadmap when the year ends.

Project vendor

Versatile outsourced team

Who does the work
Whoever the vendor assigns this quarter
Named hires you interviewed and chose
Where knowledge lives
Inside the vendor, lost at contract end
Inside your team, compounding yearly
Pricing
Blended rates with margin folded in
Salary at cost plus a flat $149 a month
Scope changes
Change requests and renegotiation
You redirect your own people same day
Attrition on the account
Silent swaps you hear about later
You see every exit and approve every backfill
Ending the arrangement
Handover documents, if you are lucky
Team transfers to your entity, tenure intact

Project vendor
Who does the work Whoever the vendor assigns this quarter
Where knowledge lives Inside the vendor, lost at contract end
Pricing Blended rates with margin folded in
Scope changes Change requests and renegotiation
Attrition on the account Silent swaps you hear about later
Ending the arrangement Handover documents, if you are lucky

Versatile outsourced team
Who does the work Named hires you interviewed and chose
Where knowledge lives Inside your team, compounding yearly
Pricing Salary at cost plus a flat $149 a month
Scope changes You redirect your own people same day
Attrition on the account You see every exit and approve every backfill
Ending the arrangement Team transfers to your entity, tenure intact
Day 1
You define the roles the outsourced work needs
Day 9
Shortlists arrive with pay benchmarks attached
Day 16
You interview and pick; offers go out same week
Day 21
Employment live on our entity, tools issued
Month 1
Work shipping under your direction, payroll run
Month 3
Recruitment fee invoiced only for people who stayed

What a vendor contract quietly adds to every billed hour.

Vendor pricing folds account management, bench cost, sales commissions and profit into one blended rate. On long engagements that overhead typically runs 35% to 55% above what the working engineers are paid.

With a directly employed team the overhead is one visible number per head per month. The rest of your budget lands in salaries, which is exactly where retention comes from.

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Illustrative vendor overhead on a four-person engagement Cumulative spend above salaries at a 45% blended overhead
$16,000 Quarter 1
$32,000 Quarter 2
$48,000 Quarter 3
$64,000 Quarter 4
Illustration for a four-person engagement at a 45% overhead above salaries. Actual vendor spreads vary by firm, rate card and location.
Where each model sends your budget
Blended vendor rate Overhead absorbs the gap
Outsourced team via Versatile Salaries take the budget

The question that separates the two models: can you name the people doing your work? If not, you bought capacity, not a team. Compare a vendor quote against a directly employed team with the EOR versus entity calculator before you sign another statement of work.

How the outsourced-team model splits the work.

You keep the direction and the output. We keep the Indian employment, payroll and statutory machinery running underneath.

You run

  • The roadmap and weekly priorities
  • Code review, QA and delivery standards
  • Pay decisions, passed to the person in full

We handle

  • Sourcing against your role briefs
  • Employment on our Bengaluru entity
  • Monthly payroll and every filing
  • Equipment, insurance and exits

You run
  • Own the roadmap
  • Direct the sprints
  • Hold the standards
  • Set the pay

We handle
  • Find the people
  • Employ them properly
  • Pay them monthly
  • File PF and TDS
  • Cover insurance
  • Handle exits

When something happens in India, it is ours.
Deciding what gets built Yours, every sprint
Employing the builders Foo Falcon Technologies
The output and the IP Yours by contract

A named compliance manager owns your account. Not a queue, not a chatbot, one person who already knows your headcount and your last filing.

Account managerMedian first reply 4 to 6 hours
Recruitment coordinatorBrief to shortlist 9 days
Finance associateFilings on time 8 / 8

Named people, not capacity

Every person doing your work was interviewed by you, hired against your brief and works on nothing else. There is no bench behind them and no account manager between you and them.

One overhead number

The full cost of the arrangement is salary at actuals, statutory add-ons of roughly 13% to 17%, and $149 per person per month. A vendor quote hides its equivalent inside the hourly rate.

Knowledge that stays

Because the team is yours, the context they build compounds instead of walking out at renewal time. Year two of an outsourced team is faster than year one; year two of a vendor contract usually starts over.

A clean path in-house

If India works well enough that you open an entity, the team moves onto it with continuity of service. The outsourcing arrangement ends without ending the team.

Named people, not capacity

Every person doing your work was interviewed by you, hired against your brief and works on nothing else. There is no bench behind them and no account manager between you and them.

You cannot outsource judgement to people you have never met.

One overhead number

The full cost of the arrangement is salary at actuals, statutory add-ons of roughly 13% to 17%, and $149 per person per month. A vendor quote hides its equivalent inside the hourly rate.

Budgets behave when every line is visible.

Knowledge that stays

Because the team is yours, the context they build compounds instead of walking out at renewal time. Year two of an outsourced team is faster than year one; year two of a vendor contract usually starts over.

Compounding context is the real outsourcing dividend.

Moving someone across

From outsourced team to owned subsidiary.

Clients who outgrow the model do not restart. Employment transfers from our entity to theirs in one cycle, with gratuity accrual and leave balances riding along.

Reporting lines and roadmap Kept
Compensation and benefits Kept
Statutory cover through transfer Continuous
Delivery pause during the move 0 days

The work never notices the paperwork changing underneath it.

Supporting evidence

Verify the entity your outsourced team would sit on.

The employer behind the model is Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, on the MCA register since 2022, and its filings are public. We share statutory extracts with any prospective client who asks.

  • Incorporation
  • GST
  • EPFO code
  • ESIC
  • Shops and Establishments
  • PAN and TAN
  • Udyam MSME
What we verify
  • Incorporation Ministry of Corporate Affairs
  • GST Goods and Services Tax
  • EPFO code Employees Provident Fund Organisation
  • ESIC Ministry of Labour and Employment
  • Shops and Establishments Government of Karnataka
  • PAN and TAN Income Tax Department
  • Udyam MSME Government of India

Challans and registration documents available before you commit.

200

workers transitioned onto our entity in one engagement

33

companies running India payroll through us monthly

5 days

from accepted offer to working on your roadmap

G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing teams in India through us.

G2 4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing through us.

Companies that outsourced the work and kept the team.

Founders on what changed when the vendor rate card was replaced by named employees and one flat fee.

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Bharath Rasoi KS Rajeshwari Founder, Bharath Rasoi
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Open Theatre Anand Raj Founder, Open Theatre
Abid Hassan Verified client
Sensibull
“They moved fast and took the whole compliance side off my plate. For a founder making an early India hire, that is exactly what you want.”
Abid Hassan Founder and CEO, Sensibull
Via G2
Moonshot
“Every option was either 'set up your own entity' or a platform that quotes a great price then hits you with add-ons. Versatile was the one that actually made it simple. First payroll ran on time. No scramble.”
Angad S. Co-Founder, Moonshot
Via G2
Digital Marketing Agency
“Contracts, PF, ESI, TDS and payroll all in one place. Invoicing in USD meant zero exchange rate surprises. The compliance rigour is genuinely reassuring.”
Vedant T. Founder, Digital Marketing Agency
Via G2
Design Studio
“Setting up in a new country can get messy fast, but their India EOR made onboarding feel easy. The team is responsive, clear, and great to work with.”
Setu C. Studio Owner, Design Studio
Via G2
US Startup
“We used Versatile to hire our first employee in India after months of putting it off because the compliance side seemed like a mess. They walked us through it and now we don't think about it.”
Verified US Founder First-time Founder, US Startup
Via G2
Mid-Market Tech Co.
“Versatile consistently delivered work that was both strategically sharp and execution-ready. Their turnaround times are impressive, and they think about problems the way an in-house team would.”
Shivani K. Senior Manager, Tech TA
Via G2
Growth-stage Startup
“Their team was highly responsive, professional, and easy to work with. They made a complex process feel simple.”
Mukul S. Core Team, Growth-stage Startup

Case studies.

Largest food delivery app in India, decacorn View case study The world's largest professional network, part of Microsoft View case study Legacy US software company, publishing platforms View case study

The full price of outsourcing work to India this way.

Two fees, both flat and public. Salaries pass through at cost, so your budget buys people rather than margin.

Recruitment

We staff the outsourced roles
12% of annual CTC

12% for junior and mid roles, 15% senior, leadership scoped per search. Nothing invoiced until the hire completes 90 days.

Brief the work
  • Role scoping from your work breakdown
  • Nine-day screened shortlist
  • Compensation benchmarks per role
  • Interview loops we coordinate
  • Offers issued through our entity
  • Day-90 invoicing protection
  • Free replacement search
  • Straight into 5-day onboarding
  • Role scoping from your work breakdown
  • Nine-day screened shortlist
  • Compensation benchmarks per role
  • Interview loops we coordinate
Plus four more inclusions
  • Offers issued through our entity
  • Day-90 invoicing protection
  • Free replacement search
  • Straight into 5-day onboarding

Bring your own candidates and the recruitment fee disappears.

Employer of Record

We employ the team doing the work
$149 /employee/mo

Past twenty heads the rate steps down to $129. Salaries and statutory costs are billed at actuals, itemised.

Price the team
  • Compliant Indian employment contracts
  • Monthly payroll with payslips
  • PF, ESIC, PT and TDS handled
  • Group health insurance access
  • Gratuity accrual from day one
  • Leave and attendance systems
  • Full and final on exits
  • Entity transfer whenever you are ready
  • Compliant Indian employment contracts
  • Monthly payroll with payslips
  • PF, ESIC, PT and TDS handled
  • Group health insurance access
Plus four more inclusions
  • Gratuity accrual from day one
  • Leave and attendance systems
  • Full and final on exits
  • Entity transfer whenever you are ready

The employment layer that replaces the vendor contract.

Past twenty outsourced heads

$149 $129 /employee/mo

The per-head fee steps down from the twenty-first employee. Recruitment percentages stay fixed at every volume.

Inside the monthly fee

  • Payroll runs and payslips
  • Statutory filings and challans
  • Health insurance administration
  • Employment letters and HR docs
  • Leave tracking
  • Reimbursement processing
  • Compliance calendar
  • Named account manager

Volume pricing

$149 $129 /employee/mo

Teams past twenty pay $129 per head per month.

Inside the monthly fee

  • Payroll runs and payslips
  • Statutory filings and challans
  • Health insurance administration
  • Employment letters and HR docs
  • Leave tracking
  • Reimbursement processing
  • Compliance calendar
  • Named account manager

Employer statutory contributions ride on top of salary at actuals, with no markup from us. To put a vendor quote and this model side by side, open the EOR versus entity calculator and load your real roles.

Outsourcing work to India, the questions that matter.

What operators ask before choosing between a vendor contract and a directly employed team.

Is this outsourcing or is it hiring?

Both, deliberately. The work leaves your home office the way outsourcing promises, but it lands with employees recruited for you and employed on our Indian entity rather than a vendor's rotating bench. You get the labour-cost arbitrage of outsourcing with the control and retention of hiring.

What kinds of work move to India well?

Software engineering, QA, data, design, finance operations, customer support and back-office functions all run well from India. The pattern that fails is throwing loosely specified work over a wall; the pattern that works is giving a stable, named team real ownership of a workstream.

How does the cost compare with a vendor?

A vendor's blended rate typically carries 35% to 55% above what its engineers earn. Here the entire overhead is $149 per person per month plus a one-time 12% recruitment fee, with salary and statutory costs passing through at actuals. On a four-person team the difference usually funds a fifth person.

Who owns the intellectual property?

You do. Employment contracts on our entity carry IP assignment and confidentiality clauses that flow the work product to you, and our master agreement with you locks the same chain. Nothing sits with a vendor because there is no vendor.

What if someone on the team leaves?

You are told immediately, not at the next account review. If the exit lands within 90 days of joining, the recruitment fee was never invoiced and we rerun the search at no charge. Beyond that, we manage notice periods, knowledge handover and the replacement pipeline.

Can we start small before committing?

Yes. Many clients begin with one or two roles to test the model, then scale once the first payroll cycles run clean. There is no minimum team size and no long-term contract lock.

What happens when we want this in-house?

You open your own Indian entity on your own timeline and the team transfers to it with continuity of service. Gratuity accrual, leave balances and tenure carry over, and nobody re-interviews for their own job.

Longer reading: When to outsource versus hire in India · What an India outsourcing service includes · EOR India, the complete guide

Tell us where you are on the decision.

A role you want to hire, a team you want moved, or just the two routes to compare. A named person replies in 4 to 6 hours.

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What the first call covers

30 minutes

A cost comparison for your headcount, on your numbers, both routes.

  • A written cost breakdown
  • Entity documents before the call
  • PF, ESI, TDS, termination law
  • No follow-up sequence
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