Built to be the offshore partner we could not find
Aarhit Consultancy has delivered software from India since 2017, as part of the Acmez group. This is how we work and why.
A reaction, not an ambition
Aarhit began because the Acmez founders kept meeting companies who had been burned by offshore development and assumed the model was the problem.
It usually was not. The problem was structural: incentives that rewarded billable hours over shipped software, account managers who filtered bad news, contracts that made leaving expensive. None of that is inherent to working across a time zone.
So we removed each one deliberately. Engineers speak to clients without a translator. Weekly notes report slippage in the first paragraph, not the last. Contracts carry a hire across clause priced to be used. The model works. It just has to be built to.
Nine years, in order
Aarhit is incorporated
Founded under the Acmez group to take on offshore delivery as a discipline in its own right, with its own engineering standards.
First long term client
A logistics firm in the Netherlands signs a dedicated team. That engagement is still running.
Fully distributed, by necessity
The pandemic forces remote delivery. The rituals we built then are the rituals we kept.
Bengaluru works opens
A second office brings us closer to senior platform and data talent.
Sixty engineers
Headcount passes sixty. We stop taking work we cannot staff well.
Retention crosses ninety percent
Both client retention and engineer retention. The two are related.
Selective, not scarce
We turn down more work than we accept. It is the only way to keep the promise.
Four commitments we can be held to
Say the hard thing early
A delay disclosed in week two is a scheduling problem. The same delay disclosed in week nine is a betrayal.
Engineers talk to clients
No layer of account management stands between the person asking and the person building.
Make us easy to leave
You own the code, the infrastructure, and the documentation, always. Lock in is not a business model.
Measure what we claim
Every case study on this site carries numbers. Anything we cannot measure, we do not assert.
To make distance irrelevant to trust
Good engineering does not care where it happens. Trust does, and trust is built the same way everywhere: by saying what you will do, doing it, and reporting honestly when you cannot.
A partner our clients recommend without hedging
Not "they were cheap." Not "they were fine." The recommendation we want is the one given without a caveat attached, to a friend whose product matters to them.
Head Office, Roorkee
#1328 Ganga Enclave, Near Sainik Colony, Right Bank Canal Road,
Roorkee 247667, District Haridwar,
Uttarakhand, India
Works, Bengaluru
#77, 7th Main, 7th Cross, Nobonagar, Bannerghatta Road,
Bengaluru 560076,
Karnataka, India
Tell us what you are building. We will tell you what it takes.
No sales script. A working engineer reads your brief and replies with a scope, a team shape, and an honest estimate.