The questions buyers ask us first.

23 answers on how the engagement works, what the commercial terms are, and what Bosnia does and does not solve. Each one links to the page that goes deeper.

The offer

What we do, and which model fits.

What does SourceifyIT actually do?

We recruit, employ and run dedicated engineering and support teams in Bosnia and Herzegovina for buyers in Western and Northern Europe. You keep task and workflow control, we carry the employer side and the daily operational management.

We are not a marketplace, not a freelancer pool, and not a staffing vendor that hands over CVs and leaves. The engagement models.

Which model fits us?

A standing team of your own is Dedicated Teams. Extra people inside squads you already run is Capacity Expansion. Build plus support, or augmentation that converts into a team later, is a hybrid setup. A team you may want to own outright is the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model.

All four run on the same split of responsibility, so picking one is a question about scope rather than about how we work.

Can we start with a few people and grow?

Yes. Start with capacity inside your squads and convert to a dedicated team once the scope is stable enough to hand over as a unit.

Can one team cover build and support?

Yes, and it is a common shape: one team builds, a second covers the support functions around it, on your process, under one contract and one invoice.

Which roles can you staff?

Application development across modern stacks, QA and test automation, DevOps and platform engineering, data engineering and analytics, L1 and L2 support and service desk, and team leads or scrum masters inside your process. Tech and capabilities.

Recruiting

How people get onto your team.

How fast can we see candidates?

Interview-ready candidates for agreed roles within one week, on a service level agreement (SLA). "Agreed roles" is the load-bearing part: we map the profile with you first, covering stack, seniority, working practices and the interview loop you want to run.

What does interview-ready mean?

Screened against the agreed profile rather than exported from a database. You run your own loop and you decide. Nobody joins your team without your yes.

Who manages the team day to day?

We do, on the employer side: coaching, follow-up, HR and admin. Tasks, priorities and workflow stay with you, so the team works in your process rather than a parallel one.

What if the first candidates are wrong?

Then the profile needs adjusting and we go again. A miss on the first round is information about the brief, not a reason to lower the bar.

Who employs the people?

Our Bosnian entity, on local contracts. Employment, payroll, HR and admin sit there, which is what makes retention our problem rather than a line in your risk register.

Commercials

Money, term and the exit.

Will you send us a rate card?

Not a generic one, because it would fit nobody. Bring the roles, the seniorities and the term you have in mind, and we put figures against them in the first call. What sits inside the fee.

What currency do you invoice in?

Euro. The convertible mark has been fixed to the euro under a currency board since 1998, so the rate is not a variable in your budget. Stability and the EUR peg.

Is there a minimum term?

Yes, and it is agreed together with the startup package when the roles are agreed. We do not publish one number, because the commitment follows the size and shape of the team.

What exactly is the buy-out, and when can we use it?

At 12, 18 or 24 months you can convert the team into your own captive center. What transfers is the team you have been working with, which is why it is recruited to your bar rather than ours.

The terms go into the contract from day one, so they are known before you commit instead of negotiated at the point you need them. The BOT model.

What if we never use the buy-out option?

Nothing changes. The window sits in the contract unused and the team keeps running as it is.

Partners and enterprises

Channel safety and governance.

We are a reseller. Is talking to you a risk to our accounts?

No. When we work with a reseller or a Managed Service Provider (MSP) we do not sell to or deliver directly to your end customers, and the non-compete and non-solicit language goes into the contract rather than staying in the pitch. How we work with resellers.

Can the team work behind our brand?

Yes. White-label delivery is part of the reseller model: the team works in your process, on your tooling, behind your brand.

What does an enterprise buyer get on top of that?

The same operating model with the governance questions answered in the agreement: access controls, security requirements, data processing terms and reporting, against your requirements rather than a generic statement. For enterprises.

Bosnia

The country part of the decision.

Why Bosnia rather than Poland or Romania?

A lower cost base that has not yet been bid up, a talent pool the large sourcing vendors have not drained, CET with no timezone gymnastics, and a currency pegged to the euro. The four reasons, and the comparison with Romania.

Is Bosnia in the EU?

No. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a candidate country: candidate status was granted in December 2022 and accession negotiations opened in March 2024. Candidate status has driven alignment on GDPR, taxation and labour law, which is direction of travel rather than membership.

Which languages does the team work in?

English and German at professional level. Talent and education.

Does this work for a buyer outside Europe?

Partly. Sarajevo overlaps the whole Western European working day, and for the US east coast the overlap is the afternoon: 9:00 in New York is 15:00 in Sarajevo. Working with Bosnia from the UK, DACH, the Nordics and the US.

What are the real risks?

A smaller market means a shorter bench for very narrow specialisations, Bosnia is a candidate country rather than a member state, and any small team carries key-person risk. We write about them rather than around them: risks of nearshoring to Bosnia.

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