Offshore staffing solutions built on a managed contractor model.
Sprint Labs is an offshore staffing company headquartered in Singapore. We recruit and vet talent across Asia, engage them as independent contractors, and place them with companies in Australia, the United States and beyond.
It is not outsourcing and it is not a recruitment agency. You get a dedicated independent professional inside your team; we manage the contractor engagement, fees and payments, time off, performance concerns, replacement and offboarding.
Offshore staffing solutions built on a managed contractor model.: the short answer
This page explains the model rather than the roles. Offshore staffing means a vetted independent professional who works with your team, sits in your tools, and is engaged by Sprint Labs under a contractor agreement. You sign one Master Services Agreement plus a Work Order per seat, pay one flat monthly amount in your currency, and give 60 days' notice to end an engagement. For the list of roles and per-role pricing, see hire offshore staff.
Real, dedicated people — not a rotating vendor bench.
Every hire is interviewed for your brief, engaged by Sprint Labs as an independent contractor and stays on your team long term.
Same tools, same rituals, overlapping hours.
Your offshore team joins your standups and boards directly, so day-to-day collaboration feels local.
The model, and how it compares to the alternatives.
The four models people compare are outsourcing to a BPO, contracting freelancers, using a recruitment agency, and managed offshore staffing. They fail and succeed in different places.
Versus outsourcing to a BPO
A BPO takes a process off your hands and runs it with pooled staff under their own supervisors. That works for high-volume, highly-scripted work. It fails when the work needs product context, because the person doing it is not really in your team and rotates without warning. Offshore staffing keeps the cost profile but gives you a named person you manage directly.
Versus hiring freelancers or contractors
Freelance marketplaces are fast and cheap to start, and expensive to keep. There is no employment relationship, no benefits and no notice period, so retention is poor and your knowledge walks out regularly. Paying overseas contractors directly also carries misclassification and permanent-establishment risk for your business.
Versus a recruitment agency
An agency charges a placement fee, hands you a CV and exits. You are then responsible for engaging someone in a country where you have no entity and no local support. Offshore staffing removes the fee and keeps the contractor engagement management with us for the life of the engagement.
They are independent contractors, managed by Sprint Labs
Sprint Labs engages each professional as an independent contractor under a contractor agreement. They invoice Sprint Labs monthly through our portal and handle their own tax and registrations. We manage contracts, fees and payments, time off, performance concerns, replacement and offboarding, while you direct the work day to day.
You do not need an entity
No local company, no registered branch, no local hiring setup in the Philippines or Vietnam. You sign one Master Services Agreement with Sprint Labs and a Work Order per seat. Sprint Labs manages the contractor engagement, and each contractor remains responsible for their own tax and registrations.
It is not a BPO or an agency placement
A BPO gives you a pooled worker managed by a BPO supervisor. A recruitment agency takes a placement fee and disappears. You get a named, dedicated person who works in your tools, joins your standups and reports to you, while contracts, fees and payments, time off, performance concerns, replacement and offboarding stay with us.
One flat monthly seat cost
The contractor's fee, recruitment and vetting, contracts, payments and FX, management support and replacement are in a single monthly figure, invoiced in your currency at a rate fixed when you accept the quote. There is no recruitment fee, no success fee and no per-hire commission.
What a seat costs by market, USD per month.
Blended across all functions, from admin through senior engineering, so you can compare markets rather than roles. Every figure is fully loaded: contractor fee, recruitment and vetting, contracts, payments and FX, management support and replacement. The rate is fixed in your currency when you accept the quote, so exchange-rate movement does not change your invoice mid-term. Per-role pricing sits on the hire offshore staff page.
Quoted in USD, invoiced in your currency — Australian and US customers are billed in AUD or USD at a rate fixed when the quote is accepted.
How long does it take to go from brief to first day?
Brief the role in-app, get a named and vetted shortlist in 5 to 10 business days, interview the people you like, and we handle the engagement, the contractor agreement, payments and the onboarding. One flat monthly invoice in your own currency, 60-day cancellation notice, no placement fee.
Brief the role
Tell us the responsibilities, seniority, tools and hours you need. Ten minutes in-app, or a call if you'd rather talk it through.
Shortlist in 5–10 days
Named, vetted candidates with CVs, prior work, our assessment notes and a voice recording so you hear their English before you commit an hour.
You interview and choose
Run your own interviews and working sessions. Nobody joins your team without your decision.
We contract and onboard
Contractor agreement, contractor payments, optional managed device where needed and management support, all handled by Sprint Labs. You get one monthly invoice in your own currency.
How do I cover Australian and US time zones with one team?
Our recruiting markets sit in the GMT+7 to GMT+8 band, which is what makes covering Australia and the United States from one team practical. A Manila or Ho Chi Minh City hire covers a standard 9am–6pm AEST day almost exactly, with an hour or two of offset. For US teams the same person can work an evening shift that lands on US Pacific and Eastern mornings, or an early shift that gives you completed work waiting when you log on. Shift patterns — including any night differential local law requires — are agreed in the Work Order and priced into the monthly seat cost, so there are no surprise loadings later.
What we staff, and where from.
Start with the service that matches how you want to run the team, or go straight to the role.
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Questions about offshore staffing solutions.
What are offshore staffing solutions?
Offshore staffing means engaging a full-time professional in a lower-cost country who works exclusively for your business, while a partner company recruits, vets, contracts and manages the engagement. Unlike outsourcing, the work is not handed to a vendor to run, the person joins your team, uses your tools and reports to you.
Is Sprint Labs an offshore staffing agency?
We recruit and vet the candidate like a staffing agency, then engage them as an independent contractor and manage the relationship. We source the person too, and there is no separate placement fee, it is one monthly seat cost.
What does offshore staffing cost?
From roughly USD 1,000 per month all-in for entry-level support to USD 7,000 for senior AI and platform engineers, quoted as one flat monthly figure per seat. That covers the contractor's fee, recruitment and vetting, contracts, payments and FX, management support and replacement. There is no recruitment fee, and the rate is fixed in your currency at the point you accept the quote.
Which countries do you place staff into?
We work with companies in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Singapore, and we recruit from the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, India and Malaysia.
What do I actually sign?
One Master Services Agreement with Sprint Labs Pte Ltd in Singapore, then a Work Order per seat setting out the role, the seat cost, the committed availability window and the start date. The contractor agreement is between Sprint Labs and the professional, and you do not employ anyone abroad.
Who handles contractor payments, tax and registrations?
Sprint Labs handles contractor agreements, monthly contractor invoices, fees and payments, FX, time off, performance concerns, replacement and offboarding. Contractors are responsible for their own tax and registrations. You receive one invoice a month in your own currency.
Is this legal for a US or Australian company?
Yes. You are buying a managed offshore staffing service from a Singapore-registered company, with Sprint Labs engaging the professional as an independent contractor under our contractor agreement. You should get your own advice for your circumstances, but the model avoids you paying overseas contractors directly or setting up a local entity for the role.
What if it doesn't work out?
Tell us within the first 30 days and we replace them at our cost. After that, we run a replacement search at no additional recruitment cost. Engagements carry a 60-day cancellation notice, which supports a clean handover, but if you want to swap rather than end the engagement, the replacement search runs in parallel so there is no gap.
Brief the role. See a shortlist within 5–10 business days.
Named, vetted candidates with recordings, prior work and references — plus a flat monthly seat cost in your own currency.