If you're looking to outsource software development, you've probably seen how it usually goes: a blended rate, a project manager in between, and a different developer every time someone rotates off the bench. Core70 is a software development partner built to work the other way. Named senior engineers, full-time on your work, talking to you directly — and still there in year five.
Most outsourced software development is sold as capacity: hands, by the hour, managed for you. The arrangement is efficient for the vendor. It's also why clients end up re-explaining their system to a new developer every eighteen months.
Turnover is the cost of outsourcing that never appears on an invoice. Our answer is structural, not a promise: of every engineering dollar, 70% goes to the engineer, 10% to the Account Owner — one of the engineers, responsible for you, paid only after you pay — and 20% to the company. Nobody is reassigned by a resourcing manager, because nobody's income depends on it. That is why our engineers stay, and why your business knowledge stays with them.
Whether you call it outsourcing or offshore software development, the question underneath is the same: can you work with people you don't sit next to? Our engineers are online for several hours of live overlap every UK and European working morning — actual conversation time, not a handover window — and the rest runs asynchronously, so work moves while your day is over. For clients with strict data requirements, in-jurisdiction handling through our UK entity is available. How we handle your data →
Whether you outsource a single developer or a whole development team, the only real fork is who runs the production environment. Not headcount — a team can start as one engineer.
You have a CTO or product owner who keeps the keys. Our engineers build and ship into the environments you give them. $6,400–$8,000 per engineer per month.
How a dedicated developer works →You don't have a technical leader of your own. Named production access, incidents handled by the people who wrote the code, one full-time Account Owner accountable for it. Developer rate + 10%.
How a dedicated team works →Most engagements begin with a free code health check, then a small fixed-price first project — $2,000–$5,000, delivering working software. No minimum term after that; thirty days' notice either way.
Free code health check →Keeping the same team on a mission-critical system for eighteen years — and counting — is not a cost-saving strategy. It is the entire strategy.
Pay for judgment, not the cheapest hour. Give the engineers a direct line and room to decide. Treat them as your team, not as interchangeable resource. Everything else — contract form, service levels, where your data lives — we set with you.
One business day. Named engineers, a plain answer on price — from a software development partner that expects to still be here in five years.