Fixed scope vs offshore dev shops
Offshore teams often optimize for hours, not outcomes. We deliver fixed-scope products from Dublin with senior engineers, production-grade AWS architecture, and full source ownership in your account.
Why founders choose fixed-price over offshore hours
Offshore engagements frequently suffer from communication overhead, scope creep, and IP ambiguity. Stantons Dev House sells three named products with fixed EUR price and defined deliverables. You own the codebase in your AWS account. Delivery is in weeks with a technical co-founder model: we are invested in the asset value of what we build, not billable hours.
Where offshore quotes look cheap
Offshore shops often advertise low hourly rates and large bench capacity. The sticker price ignores timezone friction, rework from mis-scoped tickets, and the founder hours spent writing Jira stories.
Fixed-bid offshore projects can still balloon when requirements were never frozen. Without a named product and tier, you may pay twice: once for the initial build and again when diligence or customers expose architectural gaps.
What fixed scope actually includes
Each Stantons Dev House product lists what ships: React UI, serverless AWS patterns, auth and payments on Core Engine tiers, Bedrock RAG pipelines on AI Cortex. Infrastructure as code lands in your account. Handoff documentation is part of delivery, not an add-on.
You work with senior engineers in Dublin directly. There is no account-manager layer translating requirements into a distant team. Scope and EUR price are agreed before development starts.
When offshore still makes sense
Offshore augmentation can work once you have a CTO, a stable backlog, and internal QA. We are aimed earlier: pre-revenue through Series A when you need an asset on a deadline, not another contractor seat.
If you already have offshore engineers, we can deliver a defined product in parallel with documentation they can extend. Book a demo with your current architecture and timeline.
Total cost beyond the hourly rate
Count founder time writing specs, re-explaining context across timezones, and rework when architecture was never agreed. That hidden tax often exceeds the rate card savings.
Fixed EUR price on a named product caps total spend for a deliverable you own. Compare both numbers before you extend an offshore contract.
IP and AWS keys with offshore vendors
Clarify whether production runs in your AWS account or the vendor's. Diligence and enterprise buyers expect you to hold keys and IaC.
We deploy only to your account with documented handoff. See startup AWS ownership for the checklist founders use in reviews.