Prevouched exists because the offshore software market has a pricing problem that has nothing to do with price. Buyers are paying a quiet risk premium on any team they cannot put a name and a phone number to. Good shops lose deals to mediocre ones who happen to share a time zone with the buyer. That is a market failure with a knowable shape. And it is the only one we work on.
We are not a marketplace, not a staffing firm, not a delivery shop. We audit offshore software agencies against a public rubric, list the ones that pass, and put a US-based contact on the calls where the relationship is most fragile. So a credentialed offshore team can be hired the way a credentialed onshore team already is.
Buyers don't pay a risk premium on offshore teams because they want to. They pay it because they have no instrument to discharge the personal-reputation risk of being wrong. Build the instrument and the premium collapses.
Every claim Prevouched makes is bound to evidence on file and a revocation path that is published. A badge that doesn't track liveness is a logo; a rubric without consequences is marketing.
We only ever invoice the agency. We are never a payee on the agency↔client contract. The day we take delivery margin is the day our endorsement is for sale.
The categories, weights, pass bars, and revocation triggers are public. The internal scoring keys are not. Because the moment scoring keys are public, applicants train to them and the rubric loses signal.
A named US liaison, a written SLA, and a covered-call definition do more to close trust gaps than a hundred case studies. We sell the named person; we don't pretend they replace the buyer's procurement.
We turn down agencies that would pay full freight if accepting them would dilute the mark. The price of an endorsement that cannot be bought is foregone revenue. That's the trade.
Most of these are obvious revenue we have already turned down. Saying them in public is how we tie the hands of our future selves.
If any of this rings false, tell us. The shortest way to improve the rubric is to be shown the thing it misses.