For US enterprises · Est. 2014

Your India
captive center,
built in 14 weeks.

We help US-headquartered companies stand up wholly-owned Global Capability Centers in Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune — from entity setup and office set up to hiring the first 100 recruitment of your team. No BPO middlemen. You own the team, the IP, and the P&L.

— Free cost estimate · 48hr turnaround
Get your custom India GCC cost model.
Share your team profile and we'll build a city-specific, fully-loaded cost model before our call.
We'll respond within one business day. No drip marketing, ever.
Trusted by US enterprise & growth-stage leaders
Boeing
LeadSquared
Atyeti
DLocal
Aspire Systems
MBDA Systems
SimCentric
Baxter
Nadathur
Swatch Group
Boeing
LeadSquared
Atyeti
DLocal
Aspire Systems
MBDA Systems
SimCentric
Baxter
Nadathur
Swatch Group
63%
Avg. fully-loaded cost savings vs. US hire
14wks
Median time to first hire onboarded
47
GCCs launched for US clients since 2018
The four questions

Every CFO asks the same four things before approving a GCC.

Here are honest, specific answers — not the vague "we'll discuss on a call" non-answer most vendors give.

— Total cost of ownership

What a GCC actually costs in 2026.

Fully-loaded, all-in. Includes talent, office set up, compliance, infrastructure, benefits, and our managed-ops fee. No hidden line items. USD.

Tier 01 · Pilot
25 FTE
$178K/mo run-rate
Engineering salaries (blended)$124K
Office set up + facilities$18K
IT, security, benefits$22K
Managed ops fee$14K
One-time setup$95K
Tier 02 · Scale
100 FTE
$720K/mo run-rate
Engineering salaries (blended)$512K
Office set up + facilities$72K
IT, security, benefits$84K
Managed ops fee$52K
One-time setup$210K
Tier 03 · Enterprise
250+ FTE
$1.64M/mo run-rate
Engineering salaries (blended)$1.18M
Office set up + facilities$168K
IT, security, benefits$196K
Managed ops fee$98K
One-time setup$385K
The 14-week playbook

From kickoff to first 20 hires in one quarter.

A tested sequence we've executed 47 times. Parallel workstreams, not sequential ones — which is how most vendors end up taking 9 months.

WK 01–02

Entity & governance

Indian private limited entity incorporated. Board structured. GST, PAN, professional tax, STPI/SEZ registration initiated in parallel.

WK 03–05

Office set up & infra

Shortlist 3 Grade-A sites across target cities. Lease signed by week 5. IT infra, VPN, endpoint management, data room provisioned.

WK 04–09

Leadership & founding team

Site head and 3 engineering leads hired in first 5 weeks — this is the single most important lever in GCC success.

WK 06–14

Hiring engine at full throttle

Branded employer presence live. Sourcing, screening, technical panels running at 40+ interviews/week. First 20 offers out by week 14.

MON 04–09

Scale to 100 FTEs

Onboarding cadence of 10–12 hires/month. Productivity tracked against pre-agreed OKRs. Transition to client-managed ops begins month 9.

— Program at a glance
Four phases, 36 weeks to 100 FTE steady-state.
SETUP
LEADERSHIP
HIRING
STEADY-STATE
Wk 1Wk 9Wk 22Mon 9

Workstreams run in parallel, not serial. Our client's CTO spends ~4 hours/week in steady-state review. Everything else runs on our side until handover at month 9.

— Case studies

Three GCCs we built. Real numbers.

Named references available on request under NDA. These are live centers running at steady-state today.

SaaS · Series D
US observability platform scaled from 0 → 180 team members in Bangalore in Bangalore in 18 months.
$14M
Annual run-rate savings
8%
Attrition (industry avg 22%)

Started with 3 senior hires as an "India leadership node" before scaling. Product ownership of 2 full modules now lives in the GCC.

Fintech · Public
Nasdaq-listed payments company built a 240-person operations + eng center in Hyderabad.
14wk
First offer letter signed
66%
Fully-loaded cost vs. US

Required SOC 2 Type II, PCI-DSS, and India DPDP Act compliance from day one. Fully certified by month 11.

Healthtech · Growth
US healthtech series C moved data engineering & ML to a Pune-based captive.
40
ML + data professionals
$3.8M
Annual savings vs. US team

HIPAA & SOC 2 compliance built into IT from provisioning. Zero audit findings in first external review.

Model comparison

Captive GCC vs. BOT vs. EOR vs. Staff augmentation.

Each model has a right answer for a specific stage. Here's how they actually compare when you run the numbers over a 5-year horizon.

Captive GCC Build-Operate-Transfer Employer of Record Staff Aug / BPO
Who owns the team? You — direct employees Vendor → you (after 2–3 yrs) EOR provider on paper Vendor — billable resources
IP ownership Fully yours, day one Contractual, transferred at exit Contractual Contractual, often contested
Cost per FTE (5-yr avg) $62K–$94K $78K–$115K $85K–$130K $110K–$160K
Best when… You want 50+ long-term, strategic professionals You want captive outcome without setup lift You need 5–20 hires fast Short-term, project-based work
Attrition control Highest — your culture, your brand Medium — shared culture Low Lowest
Risk & mitigation

What US boards actually worry about — answered.

Not glossed over. These are the four questions every CFO, CISO, and General Counsel will raise in the approval memo.

"What about IP protection when code lives in India?"
All recruitment of your team sign US-parent IP assignment agreements at the time of offer. Source code stays in US-hosted repositories with Zero Trust access. Endpoint DLP prevents extraction. Three-year restrictive covenants are enforced under Indian and Delaware law.
"Isn't Indian attrition 25%+? How do we retain people?"
Industry average is 22%. Our GCC clients run at 8–11% because captives offer what BPOs don't: real product ownership, US-parent equity, career paths to the mothership, and US-level engineering culture. We help design all four.
"How do we handle DPDP Act, SOC 2, HIPAA from India?"
Our compliance playbook is built around India's DPDP Act (2023) with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS controls mapped from day one. We've passed 14 external audits for clients with zero major findings.
"What if we want to bring this in-house after year 3?"
That's the exit clause we recommend most clients sign. Our managed-ops fee tapers from 15% of payroll in year 1 to 3% in year 3, then a structured transfer of operations, vendors, and admin staff to your direct control. Zero termination penalty.
— Book a strategy call

30 minutes. Zero pitch. Real numbers.

Share your target team profile, and our India leadership will walk you through the cost model, timeline, and comparable builds from our portfolio — specific to your stack and stage.

01
You send us a rough scope.Headcount range, role mix, timeline. Five minutes to fill.
02
We build a custom cost model.Sent 48 hours before the call. City-specific, role-specific, fully loaded.
03
30 minutes with our India Head.Walk through the model, discuss trade-offs, show live case comps. No sales manager on the line.
— Strategy call request
Get a custom GCC model in 48 hours.
We'll email the model, then schedule a 30-min walkthrough with our India Head of Operations.
We'll respond within one business day. No drip marketing, ever.