Partners in offshore delivery
What we do
Build your product offshore with lower risk and full team ownership.
Dedicated top-tier talent, disciplined delivery and greater control — shaped around your ways of working.
We help founders and technology leaders scale offshore with confidence and the right quality while protecting your IP, long-term ownership and flexibility.
With a tech partner who actually knows what good looks like.
The challenge
Building an offshore team with low risk isn’t simple.
You need the top talent, not the cheap compromises.
You want offshore cost benefits without the uncertainty of unfamiliar markets or inconsistent delivery quality.
You prefer to scale with a tech partner but without giving up ownership or creating long-term lock-in.
Our approach
A disciplined approach to building teams and products offshore
We specialise in building, integrating and managing high-calibre product engineering teams that work as natural extensions of yours, with the ways of working and cultural alignment needed from day one.
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01. Talent
Precise recruitment to client needs and for cultural alignment. Target top tier candidates, stay away from average.
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02. Delivery
Integrated offshore ways of working. Predictable cadence and communication.
Product and delivery management (optional).
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03. Culture
‘One Team‘ mentality from Day 1. Healthy product and engineering culture. Integration through team building and social events.
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04. Ownership
Total IP / team protection: team fully dedicated to you, no roll-offs or rotations clause, option to bring it in-house.
Offshore vs local
How does it compare to my local team?
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Recruited to your specs
Screened for cultural fit
Focus on top tier talent
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Team starts at 9am AU
100% workday overlap
Ease of travel
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Native spoken English
Collaboration and empathy
Strong work ethics
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Team fully dedicated to you
“No roll-offs” in contract
Option to transfer to you
Two paths. Same foundation.
Choose how you want to extend your capability.
Build Your Team
Own your delivery. We make it work.
For leaders who want a dedicated team that feels entirely theirs — with support to make it productive from day one.
BEST WHEN YOU WANT
✓ Full ownership of the team
✓ Control over day-to-day delivery
✓ Help to make offshore work
✓ Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) option
Build Your Product
Own the vision. We run the delivery.
For leaders who want to focus on their business and need a trusted partner to drive product delivery outcomes.
BEST WHEN YOU WANT
✓ A partner accountable for outcomes
✓ Hands-on product delivery leadership
✓ Disciplined ways of working
✓ A partner model that retains the team
Compare
Compare the options
Best for
You own
We own
Management
load
Cost profile
Build Your Team
Long-term capability
Day-to-day delivery
Offshore integration +
ongoing support
As usual
~½ of AU employee
Build Your Product
Delivery outcomes
Product vision
Product leadership +
Delivery management
Low
~½ of AU consultant
Location
Why did we choose the Philippines?
Philipines
DB created DBLab: a space to foster innovation and explore new ideas from a technological perspective. Involved with the most diverse technologies, from microcontroller programming, through the use of IoT platforms, analysis using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to new interfaces such as Augmented and Virtual Realities, DBLab has a highly trained and engaged team, providing the development of POCs and MVPs with predictable duration and costs.
From idea to working software
Our product delivery approach
“We started Pragmateam with the idea of working with like-minded people and forming strong partnerships with clients to help them deliver better.”
Juliano Bersano | Founder, Managing Director
Questions people ask about offshoring
Offshore FAQs
Q: Why offshore to Brazil?
- It's where we have a trusted relationship going back over 20 years
- Good cultural match to Australia, similar style of collaboration, work and relationships
- Creative and independent thinking mindset, comfortable asking questions, challenging or suggesting better ways (rather than just following)
- Good level of English to work, communicate and collaborate with Australia
- Used to understanding a problem statement and developing solutions (rather than just coding to a spec)
- Strong work ethics and customer focus
- Large tech and agile community with high education levels
- Very high adoption of our preferred engineering practices (proportionally more than Australia, US, UK etc.)
- Lower staff turnover than traditional offshoring countries
- Fast internet and IT infrastructure (better than Australia, actually…)
Q: What about the timezone difference?
- Roles and scope are shaped to promote autonomy and ownership in the offshore team
- Our ways of working are designed to decrease dependency between Australia and Brazil
- Dependencies and high-touch activities are done by local team representatives and handed over when needed
- Teams in Brazil shift working hours to start in the afternoon and finish later at night (culturally everything happens later there anyway)
- We use 2-3 hours of daily overlap to sync onshore and offshore teams, ask for help, kick off and review work but the work itself happens independently of it
- When onboarding, we send team members to Australia for a few weeks to learn and build relationships (or if travel isn't possible, we use a longer daily overlap and facilitate onboarding activities)
- People from Brazil visit Australia regularly for a couple of weeks at a time, particularly to kick off new work whenever we can
- If you give your own local teams autonomy and ownership, do they actually need more than a couple of hours of collaboration with other teams every single day? No. Well, offshore isn't any different
Q: How to set offshore up for success?
- Scope the right work
- Get the right cultural alignment
- Set up the right team with autonomy
- Plan for some local presence
- Onboard together and collaboratively
- Shape the work into product increments
- Expect problem solving & ownership
- Recognise that a tight process isn’t optional
- Use timezone overlaps to sync (not to work)
- Amplify comms with always-on video
- Assure the quality of delivery
- Travel regularly to work together (both ways)
- Make the team part of your organisation
- Maintain governance through visibility