How fast can a dedicated development team start?

Lumetha starts every engagement with a two-week paid pilot, typically beginning within one to two weeks of the scoping call. The pilot ships real work - after it, you decide whether to continue with zero long-term commitment made in advance.

How much does a dedicated development team cost?

Lumetha publishes pod pricing openly - pods start at $3,900 per month, with larger multi-discipline pods at higher published tiers. No custom-quote games; the price list is on lumetha.com.

How do timezones work with a team in Nepal?

Nepal (UTC+5:45) overlaps the entire European afternoon for real-time collaboration. For US clients it works as an overnight cycle: brief the team at your end of day and review completed work in your morning. Australia and Singapore get near-full-day overlap.

Lease a complete engineering team. Not bodies. Not hours.

Q: What is the difference between a dedicated team and staff augmentation?

Staff augmentation rents you individuals whom you must manage and integrate yourself. A dedicated team is a complete, pre-formed unit - engineers plus an accountable technical lead - that takes ownership of outcomes, not hours. If you don't have strong in-house engineering management, a dedicated team is almost always the right model.

What you actually get

A whole team, already formed. Engineers who have shipped together for years - not strangers assembled for your invoice. Cloud, backend, web, mobile, and DevOps in one pod.
One accountable lead. A senior technical lead owns your outcome, joins your calls, and is the single throat to choke. You never manage five contractors.
Ownership of outcomes, not hours. Pods run your roadmap: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and the on-call reality of production software.
AI-augmented throughput. Our engineers work with modern AI tooling under senior review - you get team-level output without team-level headcount. See what one lead shipped in six months.
Your IP, your repos, your accounts. Everything lives in infrastructure you own from day one. Contracts include full IP assignment and NDAs.

Proof, not promises

The same pods available to you engineered The Genesys - a platform spanning 12+ microservices, a WordPress marketplace, Flutter apps, blockchain print rights, and an OTA-managed IoT fleet - ran a white-label mobile platform for tractor manufacturer SDF Group across seven years, 13 markets, and 10 languages - and shipped RYD Nepal's complete fleet-operations platform with one fractional CTO and AI tooling in under six months. Read all three; that depth is the interview.

And the clients said it themselves: Lumetha holds verified 5.0★ reviews on Clutch from the CEOs behind two of those platforms - "We were very satisfied with how the project was managed and delivered."

Comparing engagement models? Read our honest breakdown: staff augmentation vs. dedicated team vs. project outsourcing - including when a dedicated team is not the right choice.

Why a dedicated development team in Nepal

Kathmandu has quietly become one of the best-value senior engineering hubs in Asia, and it's where every Lumetha pod sits. The practical case for hiring a dedicated development team in Nepal:

Senior talent, 50–70% below Western rates. Nepal's top engineers ship for global clients - the platforms above were built from Kathmandu - at rates that make a full pod cost less than one Western senior hire.
A timezone that actually helps. UTC+5:45 gives Europe its entire afternoon of live overlap, Australia and Singapore most of the working day, and US teams a true overnight cycle: brief in the evening, review finished work at breakfast.
English as the working language. Nepali engineers work in English daily - specs, standups, code review, and client calls all run in English without a translation layer.
Low churn, long engagements. Unlike the largest outsourcing hubs, Nepal's senior engineers aren't job-hopping every nine months - which is how the same team can carry a product for seven years.

How an engagement works

Scoping call (30 minutes)You bring the problem; our technical lead brings questions. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so on the call.
Two-week paid pilotA real slice of your roadmap, shipped. You see the code, the communication rhythm, and the velocity before committing to anything.
Pod on retainerMonthly, at the published rate. Scale the pod up or down with a month's notice. Cancel anytime - we keep clients with results, not contracts.

Frequently asked questions

What's the difference between a dedicated team and staff augmentation?

Staff augmentation rents you individuals you must manage and integrate yourself. A dedicated team is a complete unit with its own lead that takes ownership of outcomes. If you don't have strong in-house engineering management, a dedicated team is almost always the right model - full comparison here.

How fast can the team start?

Typically within one to two weeks of the scoping call, beginning with the two-week paid pilot.

How much does it cost?

Pods start at $3,900/month and pricing for every tier is published on our site. No custom-quote games.

How do timezones work?

Nepal (UTC+5:45) overlaps the whole European afternoon live; for the US it's an overnight cycle - brief us in your evening, review finished work in your morning. Australia and Singapore get near-full-day overlap.

Start with two weeks

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A 30-minute scoping call, then a two-week paid pilot on your real roadmap. The only thing you risk is two weeks - and you keep the code either way.

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