Why us
Everything here costs us something. That's what makes it worth saying.
Any agency can claim senior engineers and good communication. These are the commitments that would be expensive to break, which is the only kind worth writing down.
What we do instead.
Each of these exists because we watched the opposite fail somebody.
The engineer who interviews is the engineer who ships
instead of — Senior profiles in the pitch, juniors on the ticket
No substitution without your written agreement. Our bench is senior-only: we hire roughly three in a hundred applicants, and we do not have juniors to hide.
Four hours of overlap, written into the contract
instead of — "Flexible hours" that mean a 14-hour reply loop
We run two shifts — 13:00–22:00 PKT for East Coast teams, 18:00–03:00 for West Coast — because Pakistan sits exactly twelve hours from Pacific time and no single day covers both. Four hours is the contractual floor; most engagements get six or more.
A two-week paid trial with a real exit
instead of — Three-month minimums and a notice period
Work with the engineer on real tickets for two weeks. Stop there and you owe nothing beyond those two weeks. Most of our clients never use it, which is the point.
Independent review of our own work
instead of — The account manager who reports on themselves
A senior lead outside the engagement reviews code and flags problems to you before you find them. Bushra reviews the modelling on every AI engagement.
You own everything, from day one
instead of — Code in the vendor's repo, on the vendor's cloud
Your repositories, your cloud accounts, your CI. There is no Avexo platform, no licence, and nothing to migrate off when we finish.
We will tell you not to hire us
instead of — Scope that grows to fit the budget
Three times last year we told a prospect their problem was a two-week fix, not a team. One of them came back with a pod six months later.
Us against the standard offshore model.
Written plainly. Take this table to any other agency and ask them to fill in the middle column.
| Avexo | The standard model | |
|---|---|---|
| Who you interview | The engineer who will do the work. No substitution without your written agreement. | A senior profile; frequently a different, cheaper engineer starts. |
| Working hours | Two shifts, assigned by your timezone. Four hours of overlap minimum, written into the contract. | "Flexible" or "some overlap", meaning a reply the following morning. |
| Trial | Two weeks, paid, on real tickets. End it for any reason and owe nothing further. | Three-month minimum with a notice period on top. |
| Who reports on quality | A senior lead outside the engagement, reporting to you directly. | The account manager whose bonus depends on renewal. |
| Rates | Published per role on the site, before you speak to anyone. | "Contact us for pricing." |
| Where the code lives | Your repository, your cloud, your IP, from the first commit. | The vendor's environment, migrated at the end if you ask nicely. |
| Bench depth | Senior only. Roughly 3% of applicants. No juniors to hide inside a pod. | A pyramid: one senior fronting three juniors on the same invoice. |
Applicants who make it through engineering vetting
Average production experience across the bench
Of engagements extend past the first quarter
Placements that failed in trial last year, and what we did about them
We are not the cheapest, and we say so early.
There are firms in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad that will quote you $22 an hour. Some of them are good. The economics of that price mean a junior engineer, a shared account manager, and a working day that ends before yours begins — and for some work, that is a perfectly rational purchase.
We built Avexo for the other case: when the engineer needs to make judgement calls without asking, argue with your staff engineer in a review thread, and be reachable at 10am in New York. That costs more to staff, so it costs more to buy.
Set against a US contractor at $150 an hour, we are around a fifth of the cost. Set against a $22 agency, we are roughly half as much again. We are comfortable in that gap, and we would rather lose the first call than win it on a number we cannot deliver behind.
If the published rates do not fit your budget, say so on the call rather than walking away. Part-time, long-term and volume arrangements price below the card, and there is work we will quote against a fixed budget. What we will not do is hold the rate and quietly lower who we put on it.
The rate card, and what sits behind each number
Every role, every rate, and the cost breakdown that explains why they are what they are. Plus our standard MSA and NDA.
The uncomfortable questions.
You are more expensive than other Pakistani agencies. Why?
Because we pay a premium for a shifted working day, we hire roughly three in a hundred applicants, and we carry the cost of independent review and the replacement guarantee. If the deciding factor is the lowest hourly rate, another firm will win and should.
You are cheaper than a US contractor. What is the trade?
Cost of living, and a timezone you have to plan around rather than ignore. What you do not trade is seniority — our bench averages six years of production experience and every engineer has supported what they built.
How do we know the numbers on this site are real?
Ask on the call and we will walk you through the underlying engagements, with client names under NDA and figures pulled from the systems they came from. Anything we cannot substantiate, we will say so rather than defend it.
What has gone wrong for you before?
Two placements failed inside the trial in 2025 — one skills mismatch we should have caught in vetting, one a client with nobody available to review code. We replaced the first and ended the second ourselves rather than bill for work that could not land.
Hold us to one of them.
Bring the commitment you find hardest to believe and make us explain how it works in practice.