Buyer profile
Series A–B founder
Building a product team for the first time, worried that one bad offshore hire will set the codebase back a year. Best fit: a vetted agency on a supported plan, with a US liaison on kickoff and milestone calls.
For buyers · US & EU teams hiring offshore
Hire offshore with something to point to. Not on faith.
Prevouched vets offshore software agencies against a public rubric and lists the ones that pass. On supported engagements, a US-based Prevouched liaison joins your calls and owns the relationship in writing. You sign with the agency directly. We are never a party to your contract, and we never invoice you.
What goes wrong
Six ways offshore engagements fail. And what we do about each one.
Read top to bottom. If your last offshore engagement failed, it almost certainly failed because of one of these. The right column is what we put in place to prevent it.
Risk
Cost if you catch it late
What Prevouched puts in place
Silent quality drift
Months of wasted delivery before you can prove the slip
Milestones are pass-or-fail, written down, and signed off by the liaison. A failed milestone opens a written escalation the same day. Not a Slack message that gets lost.
Time-zone shrug
A 24-hour round trip on every blocker
The liaison works US business hours, replies in writing within one business hour, and runs a recovery call within 48. Your agency stays focused on building.
Undisclosed subcontracting
You hired one team and got three you can't audit
Every vetted agency has to disclose subcontractors. Any material change must be reported within 30 days. Hidden subs are grounds for revocation. Published on their verification page.
Procurement can't defend the choice
Deal stalls in legal, or gets killed by a senior who never met the team
The verification page reads like a credentials document. Rubric version, vetting date, evidence summary, current status. Forward it to your counsel unedited.
Security incident, no recourse
An after-the-fact NDA fight while data is already out
Every vetted agency passed a security review. Data handling, access controls, SDLC, IP, incident response. A material incident can cost them the badge.
The team you met isn't the team you got
Discovery by month three; replacement by month six
The audit records the senior staff we actually evaluated. If that lineup changes materially, it goes to the liaison and shows up in the next re-audit.
How you use it
Five steps. Your normal process still runs.
01
Open the directory
Filter by capability, region, tier, and rubric version. Every listing checks its status live when the page loads.
02
Request an intro
One form. The liaison sends both sides a short brief with an agenda within one business day.
03
Run your usual evaluation
Pitch, scope, references. Your process, your timeline. The liaison joins the calls that decide the deal.
04
Sign with the agency directly
Your contract, your counsel, your terms. Prevouched is never a party and never asks to be. No markup, no fees from you.
05
Get to work with a liaison on standby
Written expectations in week one. Milestones in writing. An escalation path you've already agreed to, with a published SLA.
Our written commitments
The numbers we'll put in writing.
Escalation acknowledged
≤ 1 hour
Business hours, in writing, on any client escalation.
Recovery call scheduled
≤ 48 hours
Run by the liaison with a written agenda you see in advance.
Milestone outcomes
Pass or fail, in writing
No soft maybes. A failed milestone opens a written remediation thread the same day.
Badge status visibility
Live page
Tier, rubric version, vetting date, current status. Updated within 15 minutes of any change.
Who you pay
The agency only
You never pay Prevouched. No markup on your engagement, ever.
Conflicts of interest
Disclosed
We don't employ developers, white-label delivery, or recommend agencies we have hidden economic interest in beyond our published fees.
Who uses Prevouched
Four different buyers. The same problem.
Different titles, same situation: you need offshore capacity and you can't afford to be the person who chose wrong.
Buyer profile
Mid-market CTO
Adding capacity to an in-house team and needs a vendor your CFO can defend. Best fit: a vetted agency on a fully supported plan, running across a multi-engagement program.
Buyer profile
Agency-of-record principal
Subcontracting development capacity without putting your own brand at risk. Best fit: a vetted agency on a supported plan, for an ongoing partner roster with per-project intros.
Buyer profile
PE operating partner
Standardizing development capacity across a portfolio. Best fit: vetted agencies on fully supported plans across multiple portcos, with shared audit-level reporting.
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