Your India Engineering Team. Built by Product Builders.

A Global Capability Centre (GCC) is a fully owned subsidiary of your company operating in India. Every engineer in your GCC is your employee — not a vendor’s resource shared across clients. You control the hiring, the culture, the IP, and the roadmap. Outsourcing is renting a capability. A GCC is building it. The key difference: outsourcing vendors have divided loyalties across many clients and rotate talent freely. Your GCC team works exclusively for you, compounds institutional knowledge over time, and transfers ownership back to your entity under the BOT model.

With a dedicated enabler like Techify, you can have a seed team of 10–20 engineers operational within 4–6 weeks. Full GCC go-live — entity registered, workspace operational, payroll running, governance in place — takes 90 days. Scaling to 50–100 engineers typically happens over months 3–9 depending on hiring velocity and role complexity. Without a dedicated partner handling entity registration, talent sourcing, compliance, and infrastructure simultaneously, DIY timelines stretch to 12–18 months. The biggest time saver is not starting from scratch on India-specific compliance, payroll structuring, and talent networks.

Bengaluru has 880+ GCCs, which means intense talent competition, 18–22% attrition, and the highest operating costs in India. Ahmedabad-GIFT City offers three structural advantages Bengaluru cannot match. First, 30–40% lower operating costs — office, salaries, and compliance combined. Second, the GIFT City 10-year income tax holiday under Section 80LA and Gujarat GCC Policy 2025–30 incentives (up to ₹200 crore in CAPEX/OPEX support). Third, 12–14% attrition — among the lowest in India — meaning the team you build stays. Zinnov ranked Ahmedabad #1 among Tier-II cities for GCC ecosystem readiness in 2024. The companies moving now get first-mover advantage on talent, real estate, and government relationships.

Techify works with companies building GCCs of 20 to 300 resources. We typically start with a seed team of 10–20 engineers in the first 4–6 weeks, then scale based on your hiring plan and budget. There is no minimum headcount requirement to begin — we have helped companies start with 12 engineers and scale to 80 over 12 months. The more important qualifier is not size but fit: Techify works exclusively with companies in HealthTech, MedTech, CRM, and ERP product development. If your product does not fall into these domains, we will be transparent about whether we are the right partner rather than taking a misaligned engagement.

Units operating inside GIFT City’s IFSC are eligible for a 10-year income tax holiday under Section 80LA of the Income Tax Act — 100% tax exemption on profits for the first 10 consecutive years. Additionally, GIFT City units benefit from no GST on services, no customs duty on equipment imports, and single-window regulatory clearance through IFSCA. On top of GIFT City benefits, the Gujarat GCC Policy 2025–30 provides additional state-level incentives: up to ₹200 crore in CAPEX/OPEX support, 50–75% EPF reimbursement, a 7% interest subsidy on term loans, and fast-track 45-day approvals. Techify navigates all of these applications on your behalf — most companies leave significant incentive value unclaimed because they do not have on-the-ground policy expertise.

Yes — and the economics are often more compelling at an early stage than late. A 10-person engineering team in Ahmedabad costs roughly $300,000–$400,000 annually, all-in (salary, compliance, infrastructure, management). The equivalent US team costs $1.8–2.2 million. That gap funds 12–18 months of additional US runway. The BOT model specifically removes the capital intensity barrier — you do not need to register an entity, hire an India HR team, or navigate compliance alone. Techify absorbs all of that overhead. The minimum viable engagement is a seed team of 10–12 engineers, making this accessible to any company post-Series A with an active engineering roadmap.

The setup investment typically ranges from USD 200,000 to USD 2 million, depending on team size, city, and operating model. A 50-person GCC in Ahmedabad runs approximately USD 1.2–1.5 million annually — compared to USD 1.8–2 million in Bengaluru for equivalent talent. Ongoing annual operating costs are 40–60% lower than US equivalents. In Ahmedabad-GIFT City, the 10-year income tax holiday under Section 80LA and Gujarat GCC Policy incentives — up to ₹200 crore in CAPEX/OPEX support — reduce your effective cost further. Most companies recover their full setup investment within 18–24 months through operational savings alone.

The Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model is the most popular GCC entry path for first-time Indian builders. Techify sets up the entity, hires the team, manages HR, payroll, and compliance, and operates the center on your behalf — while you retain full IP ownership and engineering direction from Day 1. After 12–18 months, when operations are stable and the team is fully embedded in your culture, complete ownership transfers to your entity. You end up with a fully captive, wholly owned GCC — without the operational complexity of setting it up alone. Over 90% of BOT clients choose full ownership transfer rather than extending the managed model.

You own 100% of the IP from Day 1. This is the defining legal difference between a GCC and outsourcing. Under the BOT model, your engineers work under your direction, on your product roadmap, using your systems. IP assignment agreements are signed at the point of hiring — every line of code, every design document, every data model belongs to your company. Techify acts as the Employer of Record, managing payroll and compliance, but has no claim to any work product. When ownership transfers to your entity, the IP framework transfers seamlessly with it. This is particularly important for HealthTech and MedTech companies where regulatory IP ownership is non-negotiable.

India’s compliance environment covers PF, ESI, TDS, professional tax, labour law, the DPDP Act (2025 enforcement), GST, and transfer pricing. Techify handles all of this as part of the BOT engagement — entity registration, payroll structuring, statutory filings, and GIFT City-specific IFSCA compliance where applicable. You receive monthly reporting on compliance status, payroll cost per employee, and any regulatory updates relevant to your business. The DPDP Act (India’s data protection law) compliance is built into our standard GCC setup — particularly important for HealthTech companies handling patient data that flows between the US GCC and India.

Techify has built four shipped products: CloudLaunchPad (DevOps automation), WalkinsCRM (CRM platform), Bizio (ERP platform), and AI CardVault (AI-powered lead capture). This means our engineering leadership has experienced product ownership, sprint ownership, release management, and customer feedback cycles — not just task execution. When we hire for your GCC, we screen for engineers who can own features end-to-end rather than waiting for tickets. The result: your GCC team ramps to productive contribution faster, requires less oversight from your US team, and builds institutional knowledge that compounds. This is what we mean by building product engineers, not just offshore headcount.

We will tell you clearly in the first 20 minutes of the strategy call — and point you to a partner better suited to your needs. Techify works exclusively in HealthTech, MedTech, CRM, and ERP product development. If your product is in a different domain, or if your GCC size exceeds 300 resources and requires enterprise-scale infrastructure, we are probably not your best option — and we respect your time enough to say so. We take on a small number of new engagements per quarter. The selectivity is not a marketing tactic — it is how we protect delivery quality for every client we do take on. The first strategy session has no obligation, no pitch deck, and no hard close.