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Outsourcing · Kosovo
Outsourcing to Kosovo, without the handoff problem.
Most outsourcing fails at the seam between the pitch and the people who write the code. Here there is no seam: one senior engineer in Pristina, on your standup, in CET.
- CET
- Same working day as the EU
- 6 yrs
- Production engineering
- Day 5
- First working build
- €1,500
- Entry price, fixed
Why Kosovo
Four reasons the arithmetic works.
European rates without European overhead.
Day rates run well below Western Europe and North America for the same standard of work. You are paying for engineering, not for an office in Zurich.
Central European Time.
Full overlap with the EU and a workable afternoon with the US East Coast. Questions asked in the morning are answered the same morning.
English, German and Albanian.
Written updates land in the language your team reads. Nothing goes through a translation layer before it reaches you.
What gets outsourced
Whole products, not tickets.
Codeks takes ownership of a scope end to end. There is no ticket queue to feed and no lead engineer of yours to babysit it.
AI products
Retrieval systems, agent pipelines, extraction and classification — wired into the systems you already run.
Web applications
Full-stack builds on Next.js, Node and PostgreSQL. Deployed to your cloud account, not mine.
Mobile applications
React Native apps sharing a codebase with the web product, shipped to both stores.
Cloud and infrastructure
Deploy pipelines, monitoring and cost control on AWS, GCP or Vercel, set up so your team can run it.
Ongoing capacity
A retainer from €3,000/mo for 60–80 senior hours a month, month to month, from the engineer who built the thing.
Rescue work
Stalled builds and prototypes that never reached production. The first week is an honest assessment, in writing.
How it runs
Four steps, no discovery phase.
Scope
A 30-minute call, then a written scope with a fixed price and a start date. No statement of work theatre.
Skeleton
Repo, deploy pipeline and the core loop running end to end by day 5. You get the URL that week.
Build
A live demo every 3–4 days and daily written progress in a shared channel. Feedback lands in the next build.
Handover
Production deploy, monitoring, documentation and 30 days of support. Everything is already in your accounts.
Questions
What people ask before they book.
- How much does outsourcing to Kosovo cost?
- Codeks quotes fixed prices, not day rates: €1,500 for a two-week strategy sprint, €15K–€45K for a complete product, €3,000/mo for ongoing capacity. The number in the scope is the number on the invoice.
- Who actually writes the code?
- I do. Codeks is founder-led — the person on the scoping call is the person committing. There is nobody to hand the work down to, which is the failure mode most outsourcing has.
- How do we work together day to day?
- A shared channel for daily written progress, one planning call a week, and a live demo every 3–4 days. Kosovo is on CET, so the overlap with European teams is the whole working day.
- Who owns the code?
- You do, from the first commit. The repository, the documentation and the cloud infrastructure live in your accounts, so there is nothing to hand back and nothing to be locked into.
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