Your technology team in India, built and run as your own
Outpost is a dedicated engineering team, on our payroll in India, working only for you. It gives a Middle East company the capability of a captive technology centre without the cost and effort of standing one up. A smaller, simpler version of an offshore centre, and a genuine contract-to-hire path: run the team with us for as long as it serves you, and transfer it into your own company when the time is right.
A dedicated team, run as an extension of your company
You are not a technology company. You move freight, or run clinics, or settle claims. But more of the work now lives in software, and the demand for engineering keeps climbing. Hiring engineers locally is slow and expensive, building an in-house function means running a discipline outside your core, and the work does not stop arriving. Outpost is the answer that most non-technology companies in the region are missing.
We hire the engineers you need, employ them on our payroll in India, and set them up to work as part of your team. You set the direction and own the work. We handle everything it takes to keep a strong team in place. It sits between two options that do not fit: a staffing agency, where you rent hours from a shared pool and own nothing, and building your own captive centre, which means full ownership but the cost and risk of a new entity. Outpost gives you the commitment of your own team, without the overhead of building one.
Clear on what this is, and what it is not
The boundary matters, because "a team in India" means very different things to different providers. Here is exactly what Outpost is.
Outpost is
A standing engineering team, dedicated to you and directed by you day to day. Software engineers and the roles around them, building and running the technology your business depends on. Long-term and continuous, held to your standards, with the option to transfer the team into your own entity later.
Outpost is not
A help desk or a service desk. We do not reset passwords or run a ticket queue. It is not a shared pool billed by the hour, not a one-off project that ends and takes its knowledge with it, and not generalist staffing. We place technology people, in the languages and stacks that matter now.
How it works, from a brief to a team at work
Five steps, and the transfer option is shown, not hidden. Scoping is usually a week or two of conversation, and most teams start small and grow.
1. Scope
We define the roles, the stack, the seniority, and exactly how the team plugs into yours.
2. Build
We source and assess against that brief. Every candidate arrives with a written assessment, and you make the final call on who joins.
3. Set up
We put the team on our payroll in India, in a secure workspace, with the access and equipment to be productive from week one.
4. Run
The team works to your roadmap and reports into you. We carry payroll, HR, retention, security and the day-to-day of keeping the team whole.
5. Scale or transfer
Add roles as you grow. If you later build your own entity, we help you move the team across on agreed terms.
One point of contact
One engagement lead from PeopleCap is accountable for the team throughout, with a regular reporting cadence so nothing goes a week without visibility.
The engineers you would hire yourself, in the languages that matter now
We build teams across the modern technology stack, industry agnostic by design. Hiring well is what we do every day as a specialist talent firm, and that discipline is what makes an Outpost team hold.
Web and application engineering
JavaScript and TypeScript, React, Node, Python, Java, .NET and PHP, front end to back end.
Mobile
Native iOS and Android, and cross-platform builds for the apps your customers and field teams use.
Cloud and DevOps
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, containers, CI and CD, and reliability engineering.
Data and AI
Data engineering, analytics, machine learning and applied AI against your own data.
Quality engineering
Test automation and manual QA, so what the team ships holds up in production.
The roles around the code
Product, design, architecture and engineering management, so the team runs and does not just write software.
Why the team sits in India
Depth of talent. India holds one of the largest technology workforces in the world and adds hundreds of thousands of engineers every year, so roles that take months to fill in the Gulf come out of a far deeper pool.
A working day you share. India is about one and a half to two and a half hours ahead of Gulf time, so your team and ours share almost the entire working day. This is live collaboration, not overnight handoffs.
Cost that works in your favour. A fully loaded Outpost seat typically costs a fraction of an equivalent local hire, with no recruitment premium and no retention bidding war on top.
English, and a track record. An English-speaking workforce that has delivered for global companies for three decades, including the technology centres of some of the world's largest firms.
A talent firm first. That is the difference.
Most offshore teams are built by outsourcing companies whose business is billing hours. We come at it from the other side. Finding, assessing and keeping strong technology people is the whole of what we do.
Specialist hiring is the core
Not a side line bolted onto a delivery business. It is the whole practice, led directly by our senior team.
A written assessment, never a forwarded CV
Every shortlist arrives with our read on the person, and you make the final call on who joins your team.
Retention is the real metric
We are measured on whether your team holds, not on how many seats we fill. Getting the screening right up front is the single biggest driver of who stays.
One simple, transparent monthly fee per seat
You pay one predictable monthly fee for each seat. It covers the engineer's fully loaded cost and our fee for employing, hosting and running the team, so there is no recruitment commission on top and no margin buried inside an hourly rate. A seat includes salary and statutory employment costs, workspace and equipment, HR and payroll, security and compliance, and the ongoing work of retention.
You scale by starting with a small team and adding roles as the work grows, and you can adjust with notice, without the fixed cost of your own entity. If you later want the team inside your own company, we help you move them across. We price each engagement against your actual roles and seniority, and put a clear per-seat number in front of you before you commit to anything.
Common questions
What does contract-to-hire mean here?
The team is engaged through PeopleCap and works for you on a continuing basis. If you later decide to bring the team inside your own company, we help you transfer them across on agreed terms. You get the flexibility of an outside team now, with a clear path to owning it later. This is build, operate and, when you want it, transfer.
How is this different from a staffing agency or staff augmentation?
A staffing agency bills you for hours from a shared pool and can rotate people off with little warning. Outpost gives you a named, dedicated team that works only for you, to your roadmap, in your tools. The people you onboard are the people who stay, and retention is our responsibility, not yours.
How is this different from setting up our own GCC or captive?
A captive or global capability centre means registering an entity, leasing space, and running payroll, HR and compliance in another country before a line of code is written. Outpost gives you the same dedicated team and the same control over the work, without any of that overhead, because we are the employer of record. Think of it as a smaller, simpler capability centre you can start in weeks, not quarters.
We are not a technology company. Is this for us?
Yes. Outpost is built for companies whose product is not software but whose operations run on it: healthcare, logistics, insurance, retail, manufacturing and more. If you have an internal IT function that is stretched and you need to add real engineering capacity, this is designed for exactly that. It is industry agnostic by design.
Do you provide a help desk or IT support?
No. Outpost is build work: software engineers who design, build and run your technology. We do not run a help desk or a service desk, and we do not handle password resets or a ticket queue. If you need engineering capacity rather than end-user support, this is the right fit.
How does the time zone work between India and the Middle East?
India is about one and a half to two and a half hours ahead of the Gulf, so your team and the Outpost team share almost the entire working day. Collaboration is live and same-day, not handed over the wall overnight.
How much does an Outpost team cost?
One transparent monthly fee per seat, covering the engineer's fully loaded cost and our fee for employing, hosting and running the team, with no recruitment commission on top. A fully loaded seat typically costs a fraction of an equivalent local hire in the Gulf. We price each engagement against your actual roles and give you a clear per-seat figure before you commit.
Who owns the intellectual property and the code?
You do. All work product and intellectual property is assigned to you by contract, and every engineer signs confidentiality and IP terms before day one.
Is our data secure, and are you certified?
PeopleCap is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, with the certificate available on request. We are built for India's DPDP Act, with consent, data-principal rights, grievance redressal and breach response operating now, and primary data can rest in India in access-managed environments. See our trust and security overview.
Which countries do you serve?
Outpost is built for companies across the Middle East, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait, with the team delivered from India. If you are based elsewhere and the model fits, tell us and we will be straight about whether we are the right partner.
Talk to us about a team
Tell us what you are trying to build and we will come back within one working day with a team plan: the roles and seniority, a realistic timeline, and a clear cost per seat. Investors and prospective partners can reach us here too. Every enquiry reaches our senior team, and lands at engage@peoplecap.in.
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