High-performing
offshore software
development teams.

Azendo is an ambitious software partner building and managing offshore development teams for equally ambitious companies.

  • No deposit
  • No upfront fee
  • No commitment
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Two members of our offshore development team talking at a laptop by a Bangkok office window
Our offshore development team in a planning session in the Bangkok office meeting room
Trusted by teams worldwide
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100% managed offshore development teams that are 100% assigned to you.

Every developer we assign works full time for one client: you. They're in your standups and your repos from week one, and within a few months they know your codebase as well as your own engineers do.

It's made for companies whose product grows faster than local hiring can keep up. A dedicated development team from Azendo adds the capacity in weeks. The priorities stay yours. The people are ours, and so is the managing.

How it works day to day
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Our offshore development team working together around a table of sketches and sticky notes

Offshore development teams trained in great teamwork.

Through our Talent Success programme, the Azendo Academy and our Danish roots and management, we know how much communication and teamwork matter. We train everyone to be a master communicator and a true team player.

The Talent Success Academy
Azendo delivered great service. The team developed SaaS platforms that support all-in-one digital fire safety solutions, delivering the web app alongside native iOS and Android apps. The system centralizes fire plans, drawings, legal requirements, ownership mapping, and much more. Workflows were designed around how construction teams, facility managers, and technicians actually operate on-site, streamlining what was previously scattered across paper and disconnected systems.
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Your offshore development team, step by step.

  1. 1

    Scope and alignment

    We agree the roles, team size and skills with you, then send a team proposal with the hours and the fee.

  2. 2

    We build your team

    We write an ideal candidate profile per role, then find, test and select. You meet everyone first.

  3. 3

    Your team starts

    Onboarding into your tools, a desk in our office and full equipment, with close feedback through probation.

  4. 4

    Team management

    After a successful probation we run day-to-day management and delivery. You keep the priorities.

Try us, at zero risk.

  • No deposit
  • No upfront fee
  • No commitment

We agree a time to hire with you. If we can't find the right people for your team within it, you walk away with no commitment and nothing to pay.

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  1. 5

    Delivery feedback

    Every Friday you score our delivery, and every month you get a report. Any score below four gets an answer.

  2. 6

    Talent Success

    A Talent Success manager for every specialist, tailored coaching and a personal development plan.

  3. 7

    360-degree reviews

    Every quarter a 360-degree review, with your feedback in it next to peers and the service delivery manager.

  4. 8

    Well-being

    Well-being check-ins every two weeks and team events through the year. Our people stay 3.3 years on average.

Build your dream team of offshore developers and tech talent.

Backend, frontend, mobile, QA, cloud, data or AI. Start with what you need today and add the next skill when the product asks for it. Your offshore development team grows under one agreement and one service delivery manager.

We run everything around your offshore development team.

Staffing providers hand you a developer and leave the rest to you. We do offshore staffing and staff augmentation as a full service, and take care of everything around the people, from the office and the coaching to the delivery itself. You get a world-class offshore development team without having to run one.

“Every partnership gets all of us. Your team is ours to stand behind, every single day.”

Mikkel Schmidt, CEO and founder
Mikkel Schmidt, who founded the offshore software development company in Chiang Mai in 2010

Price examples

Junior level unless marked, full time, everything below included. Mid-level and senior levels are priced in your proposal. All 27 things included

  • Service

    We manage and develop the team

    • A service delivery manager who oversees operations and delivery
    • A 1:1 with our Head of Delivery every two weeks
    • Weekly delivery scoring and monthly capacity reports
    • A Talent Success Manager for every team member
  • HR

    We are the employer

    • Recruitment and technical assessment
    • Employment contracts
    • Salary and payroll
    • Tax and social security
  • Facilitation

    We provide the workplace

    • A desk in our office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok
    • A Workplace Experience Manager on site
    • Team events through the year
    • IT support
  • Equipment

    We supply the tools

    • Laptop and hardware
    • Software licences
    • LinkedIn Learning access
    • Device security and management
  • Finance and bankingfintech, payments, core banking
  • Insuranceinsurtech, claims, policy admin
  • Real estate and propertyproptech, portals, tenant apps
  • Healthcare and life sciencesmedtech, clinical tooling
  • Education and trainingedtech, learning platforms
  • Marketing and creativemartech, campaign tooling
  • Retail and eCommercestorefronts, checkout, ERP

Offshore developers hired for your industry.

We keep no developers on a bench. We hire for each client team, and the sector is part of the brief. Banking, payments, insurance, property, healthcare, education, marketing and retail all have their own tools and rules, and we look for people who already know them.

The industries we work in

Life at Azendo.

See the offices
The leadership team behind our offshore development teams, laughing together in Chiang Mai
Two offshore developers working on a laptop in front of the Azendo logo wall
Two members of our offshore development team at the reception holding team signs
Our offshore development team playing table football in the Chiang Mai office
Offshore development team members with Azendo signs at a company event
Two members of our offshore development team sharing a laugh at their desks
Two offshore developers reviewing work together at a monitor in Bangkok

When we manage your dedicated offshore development team, we set the bar high.

The priorities and the code stay yours. Everything it takes to build it well is on us.

Value for money, at another service level

One fixed monthly fee covers the developer and the 27 things around them, from delivery management and training to the office and HR. No upfront fee, no management surcharge, no equipment bill.

How the monthly fee is built

The people we select

We test culture, mindset and hard skills before anyone joins a client team. Very few developers make it, and every one of them has a development plan built around your goals and theirs.

How we select

Real communication

A delivery survey every week, a report every month and a check-in every two weeks with you and the team. If something is off, you hear it from us early.

Why Azendo
Two people from our offshore development team going through work on a laptop in the Bangkok office

How our offshore development teams think about AI.

The AI Software Factory is our free book on AI agents in software teams. It covers the research, the ways teams run agents, and a full design from our DevOps engineers where agents plan, write, review, test and fix code and a person approves every merge.

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Sixteen years as an offshore software development company in Thailand.

Mikkel Schmidt came to Chiang Mai from Denmark in 2010 and started a small agency called VSI GROUP. It grew into a company that builds offshore development teams for long-term product work, and in 2022 it became Azendo, from the Latin ascendo, to climb.

Today we're around a hundred people in our offices, a floor in Chiang Mai and a second office in Bangkok, all on our equipment. Azendo is BOI-registered in Thailand.

2010
Founded in Chiang Mai, Thailand
16 years
Expertise and experience
2 Offices
Chiang Mai & Bangkok
Mikkel Schmidt, founder of the offshore software development company Azendo, smiling

“We believe in direct and honest communication, and we own what we promise.”

Mikkel Schmidt, CEO and founder

What companies ask before they build an offshore development team with us.

What is an offshore development team?

An offshore development team is a group of developers in another country who work on your product as part of your team. Ours work full time for one client, from our offices in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, and we manage them day to day. You pay one fixed monthly fee, and our people stay with us 3.3 years on average.

Are you a staffing company or a software development company?

An offshore software development company. We deliver staffing and staff augmentation for tech roles as a fully managed service. Our developers work full time on your product, and we take care of the people: the managing, the training and the workplace. You set the priorities. You don't manage individuals.

How is this different from a project agency?

An agency builds a project, hands it over and moves on. Our teams stay. The same offshore developers work on your product month after month, and everything they learn stays with you.

Who does the work?

Named developers in our offices in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, full time on your product. You always know exactly who is on your team. See how we pick them when you hire offshore developers.

Who manages the offshore development team?

We do. We manage the people day to day, and your service delivery manager checks in with you every two weeks. You decide what gets built.

What happens if a developer leaves?

We find and onboard the replacement, and your product keeps moving. Good documentation keeps the knowledge in more than one head, and your service delivery manager plans the handover with you.

How is it priced?

One fixed monthly fee for an agreed number of hours, the same every month. We'll quote it after a short scoping call.

How quickly can you hire our team?

Our time to hire is four weeks from signing. You meet the developers before anyone is assigned. Nothing is paid before their first working day, and if we can't find the right people in the agreed window, you walk away at no cost.

Can we add other roles later?

Yes. Add QA, DevOps, design or data people as the product grows, under the same agreement as the rest of your offshore development team.

Can the team work remotely inside our own tools?

Yes, that's how every team works. Your remote team joins your Slack or Teams, your repos, your tickets and your sprint rituals. Only the people on your team get credentials, and the code is always yours.

Is this the right model for us?

It's made for companies with a product that keeps growing and plans that run for years. The longer you build, the more it pays off, because the same people stay on it. Still comparing? staff augmentation vs managed services puts the two side by side.

Which offshore software team model fits your business and your software projects?

There is more than one way to add developers abroad, and the right one depends on how much of the managing you want to keep. Here is how the options differ and where each one leads.

Adding offshore developers to a team you already run

Adding one or two people to a team you lead yourself is staff augmentation. In its plain form the managing lands on you, which by our estimate takes four to eight hours of your week per person.

Our IT staff augmentation services don't just deliver the extra capacity. We assign highly talented developers, under our management, to work alongside your internal team. We handle the HR, the day-to-day management, the ongoing training, the 1:1 meetings, the coaching and much more, so you don't have to. You focus on your business, your projects and your clients, and we manage the people. That way we each do what we're good at, and your business can grow.

It fits when someone on your side can set priorities and review the work. If you'd rather hand over a job with a fixed scope, that's a different offer, further down.

Building a whole offshore development team in Thailand

When the plan is a team of its own, offshore IT staffing is the route. We headhunt for your stack and hire the people for you; nobody comes from a bench. They work from our offices in Chiang Mai and Bangkok on premium equipment, with colleagues and managers around them, and our Academy keeps training them. Every other week we go through the deliveries with you. Our time to hire is four weeks from signing.

It fits a product you'll keep building for years, because the people we assign stay on it. A short job with a clear end is better bought as a project.

Offshore software developers without employing them yourself

With IT outstaffing services the developers work in your team while we stay their employer. Contracts, salary, payroll, benefits and leave are our job. So is each person's growth: a Talent Success manager, a development plan built every quarter and a well-being check-in every two weeks.

It fits when you want engineers in Thailand without setting up a company there. If you'd rather employ them yourself, this isn't for you: everyone we assign is on our payroll.

People in one area, such as QA, DevOps or data engineering

Most teams start with developers and add QA, DevOps, data, design or AI people as the product grows. Each service area has its own page with roles and prices, starting with a dedicated software development team. One or two people is enough to start, and the service agreement is tailored to the monthly hours you need.

AI software development and automation as a project

That is what our AI services are for. We take on AI software development services as fixed-scope builds and MVPs, and as an AI automation agency we put AI agents to work in your operations. Every engagement starts with a discovery meeting where we scope it together, and scope, model and price are agreed before work starts.

It fits when you can describe what you need built. A product that will keep changing for years is team work.

What offshore developers cost per month

A team comes at one fixed monthly fee for an agreed capacity. A junior developer starts from USD 2,200 a month, full time. That covers the salary, the office and equipment, training and coaching, HR and payroll, and the people who manage the team. There is no upfront fee. Seniority changes the price, and your proposal states it. See how the monthly fee is built.

Setting up offshore software development yourself, or through us

The guide on how to hire dedicated developers lays out both routes, hiring abroad on your own and doing it through us. Doing it yourself fits when you already have a company, an office and recruiters in the country. If you don't, that setup is what our fee replaces. And how it works shows our four steps, from the first call to a team in your sprints.

Let's talk.

We're always up for a quick talk. Ask us how we run managed software teams, how our pricing works, or something else entirely. You'll get a straight answer from a real person.

  • No deposit and no upfront fee
  • No commitment until the right people are on your team
  • If we can't find them inside the agreed window, you walk away at no cost
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