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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 lists questions to ask when choosing a software-development partner. Curiosive is a studio in Ankara, Türkiye; our published case studies show delivered work. Compare relevant scope, the proposed people, review responsibilities and operating arrangements instead of using an unverified portfolio count as evidence of fit.
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.
Ask where the people doing the work are based, their actual schedules and which decisions need a live conversation. More shared hours do not guarantee same-day answers, and asynchronous work need not add a full day to every question. Agree response expectations and a meeting window for the engagement; dated city examples can help plan without promising availability.
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.
Read delivered scope alongside the product link. Zing Coach’s case documents a Webflow-to-Next.js website rebuild; RateItAll’s case describes a Nuxt rating-platform relaunch. Ask what the proposed team actually delivered and what remains outside that evidence. User totals, install counts and review counts do not establish the scope of a new engagement.
Senior engineers building your product with AI coding agents: web, mobile, SaaS or browser extension, reviewed before anything ships.
AI-accelerated development, billed monthly. We confirm scope, capacity and start date in writing before checkout.
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.
Compare the same work, capacity and operating responsibilities. Hiring, a bounded project and ongoing external capacity have different commitments and management needs. Include review time, onboarding and maintenance in the comparison rather than assuming outsourcing is always cheaper or immediately available.
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
