Outsourcing software development has a reputation, and parts of it are earned. Account managers sitting between you and the engineers. Developers swapped without notice. Code that arrives as a zip file with no explanation attached. It is worth naming that before making any case for it.
This page is the set of questions we would ask if we were on your side of the table, with our own answers written next to them. Curiosive is a studio of senior engineers in Ankara, Türkiye, with 25 products in production across 13 countries and more than five years of shipping software that has to stay up.
The person you meet in the sales call is often not the person who writes your software. Ask to speak with the engineer who would do the work, and ask whether they will still be on the project in three months. With us there is no sales layer: the first reply comes from the engineer who would build it.
Overlap decides how a week feels. Four shared hours means a question gets answered the same day. Zero shared hours means every question costs a day. Türkiye gives European teams nearly a full working day of overlap and US East Coast teams a real afternoon window. Ask any prospective partner for the number, not the reassurance.
Volume of code is no longer the constraint, AI produces plenty of it. The constraint is judgement about what should not ship. Every change we make is read by a senior engineer before it merges, and the boundaries that matter, authorization, payment paths, anything touching user data, are designed by a person rather than generated.
The question that separates a partner from a vendor is what happens when you leave. Where does the code live, whose name is on the hosting account, is there a document that explains the deployment. Ask it in the first conversation rather than the last, because the answer shapes everything in between.
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A finished product across web, mobile or browser extension, with the admin and integrations behind it.
Starting points, not quotes. What a project actually costs depends on scope, and we agree that in writing after discovery.
Small on purpose. You work with senior engineers directly rather than through an account manager, and the person who scopes the work is the person who builds it. When a project needs more hands we say so before committing rather than quietly adding juniors.
Usually, but that is the wrong first question. Hiring gives you permanent capacity and takes months. Outsourcing gives you capacity this month with no long term commitment. The cost that decides the outcome is the one you cannot see on the invoice: how much of your own team's time goes into supervision.
Then we work inside your process rather than beside it: your repository, your branching strategy, your review rules. Several of our engagements are additional capacity for an existing team rather than a replacement for one.
By treating it as a design constraint rather than a checklist. MedGuide processes medical records under GDPR with zero data retention and end to end encryption, which shaped its architecture from the first sketch rather than being added at the end.
You get a reply within a working day, from the engineer who would do the work. A scoped plan with price and timeline follows before anything is committed.
One paragraph on what you are building, roughly when you need it, and who it is for. No brief, no form with fifteen fields.
From the engineer who would do the work, not a sales team. If we are not the right fit we say so, and where possible we point you somewhere better.
Scope, price and timeline in writing before anything is committed. You decide with the numbers in front of you.
No long contract to begin, no lock-in to our tooling, and the code is yours from the first commit.
Start a conversationA short note about the product, the timeline and who it is for is enough to start. You will hear back from the engineer who would do the work, not a sales team.
Ankara / Türkiye · Working across European and US time zones
