True, it's a hard niche to fill, and yup, slightly confusing even. We'd aim for development companies within the US that have some "outsourcing" presence around

True, it's a hard niche to fill, and yup, slightly confusing even. We'd aim for development companies within the US that have some "outsourcing" presence around the world, but have not tapped into Eastern Europe yet. What we're really looking to do is help developers get connected to the US companies and get paid better and not be looked at as contractors, but FTE with benefits. An example - in Serbia and Slovenia you arrange a net salary, and the company pays the taxes/insurance etc on top of net salary (usually around 50-60%). So for a senior salary in Serbia of around 4k euros. you're looking at the company paying around 6-7k euros. For a contractor (as a sole proprietor) you can make at most 50k euros a year and then you pay benefits that are minimum 300e. If you go above that you pay 10% tax on profit + 15% personal income tax. You can choose to still pay yourself salary and 50-60% on top of that, and you will most likely not pay yourself a big salary, but take the profit and pay the 15%. What we would try to accomplish is: - Not have developer as a contractor, but as an FTE - Create a pipeline of US based companies - Bump the salary for devs for 25%-30% -> pay the taxes/pension (30k+ more) - Take a 15% of the annual salary (20-30k) - Provide cheap senior/staff/principle devs that are cheaper than the same devs, but same or similar quality