Build and scale your GCC in India without the org chart
An engineering team in India that owns the outcome, not just the seats.
Anyone can put a team in a room in Bangalore. The hard part is being answerable for what comes out of it. BuildOS is a full engineering organisation, already built — the team, the leadership layer, the toolchain, the governance and a commitment to the outcome.
What a real engineering organisation needs
And what a ten person team can actually afford as a full time hire.
Every one of them is still necessary. So the team gets built and the judgment layer never does. That gap is what BuildOS exists to fill.
Trusted by teams building real products
BuildOS — the Algorizz GCC model
Three ways we work differently
Building your own captive centre in India means an entity, a resident director, regulatory filings and eighteen months to break even. Here is what you get instead.
Pricing you can see, outcomes we own
Time and materials is transparent but nobody is accountable. Fixed price has accountability but the number is padded. You get both at once: a rate per engineer you can check against the market, and a written commitment to the outcome with part of our fee at risk against it.
A point of view, on a schedule
In week two, before we are deep enough to be polite about it, you get a written note on what we would build differently and what we would not build at all. Then a senior review of product direction every quarter. Not delivery health. Direction.
Ask your current team when they last told you not to build something.
We have built our own products
LoomOS in manufacturing, MarineOS in maritime, HighwayOS in highways. We have made the decisions that hurt, on our own money, and shipped through them. Almost no services firm at our size can say that, and it is where the judgment comes from.
In every engagement, at every size
What is committed, not aspired to
Named engineers, on our own payroll
We do not subcontract to third parties. No silent substitution. Backfill named within 10 working days and overlapped for two weeks at our cost.
Your cloud, your repositories
Ephemeral development environments inside your own tenant. Nothing is cloned to a laptop. No production personal data in development or test.
We own delivery, and take a position on the product
Not bodies on your backlog. Process, quality and velocity are our responsibility, and so is telling you when the approach is wrong.
Your IP
Assignment flowed down to individual employment contracts. No client code or data into any AI tool outside the approved list, and no training on your data, contractually.
First commit inside 10 working days
Four hours of overlap with your working day. Weekly written status, monthly business review.
Compliance carried
Entity, payroll, statutory filings and employment risk sit with us unless and until you decide to take them on.
AI code governance
Your provenance record has to stand up to someone
An auditor, an enterprise customer, or a buyer during diligence. Most teams using AI to write code cannot currently answer what was generated, by which tool, or who reviewed it. That answer is becoming a procurement question.
- A funded agentic coding seat for every person on your pod
- An approved tool list with nothing outside it touching your code
- AI generated code tagged at commit so provenance is in the history
- Licence scanning on generated code
- An SBOM with every release
- A stated human review ratio not an implied one
Why this is on this page
A GCC exists to build software your business depends on. If that software was partly written by tools nobody tracked, the exposure is yours and it surfaces at the worst moment, usually in a diligence process or an enterprise security review.
We would rather show you the governance before you ask for it than explain afterwards why we did not have it.
Three sizes
What we own grows with the pod
The difference between the three is not headcount. It is how much of the outcome we are answerable for.
Team 5 to 10
SQUAD
We own
Delivery
Leadership
Fractional tech lead
We commit to
Sprint predictability, defect rate, response time
Team 11 to 20
LAB
We own
Delivery and product
Leadership
Dedicated lead, shared product manager, platform and QA
We commit to
Plus release cadence, escaped defects, environment uptime
Team 21 and above
WORKS
We own
Delivery, product and direction
Leadership
Named Algorizz director in your leadership cadence
We commit to
Plus quarterly outcomes against your roadmap
Team sizes are typical, not fixed. WORKS is available at smaller sizes where you want us owning direction. A percentage of our fee is at risk against these commitments in all three, with credits when we miss.
Versus building it yourself
Your own captive centre, or BuildOS
A captive centre is the right answer at a certain scale. Below that scale it is a two year project that delivers nothing while it runs.
How we start
Two weeks, at cost,
on real work
Not a discovery phase, not a workshop, not a proposal. A scoped pilot on a real piece of your backlog. If the work and the working style are right, the pod continues. If not, you have lost two weeks and gained a delivered feature.
What you have at the end of week two
A delivered piece of your backlog, running. A written note on what we would build differently and what we would not build at all. And enough experience of working with us to decide, on evidence rather than on a reference call.
How BuildOS is contracted
Engagement models
The three sizes describe what we own. These describe how it is bought. Most clients start in one and move between them as the capability matures.
Project based engagement
Defined scope, defined outcome
- Fixed price
- Milestone based
- Time and materials
Managed services
Your tech function, run by us
- Managed tech and AI
- AI as a service
- Full GCC management
Dedicated talent
Senior people, embedded in your team
- Dedicated squads
- Embedded engineers
- CTO advisory
The BuildOS setup path
GCC setup services in India
From operating model to a running lab. Nine stages, each ending in something you can point at.
STAGE 01
Strategy
GCC objectives, success metrics and the operating model your capability runs on.
STAGE 02
Technology
Architecture, technology selection and the engineering roadmap.
STAGE 03
Talent
Developers, architects, AI and data engineers, sourced and vetted.
STAGE 04
Team setup
Named pods and the technical leadership that runs them.
STAGE 05
Infrastructure
Cloud, DevOps and security, standing up before the first commit.
STAGE 06
Product engineering
Software and product development, shipped on your roadmap.
STAGE 07
AI
GenAI, machine learning and computer vision, with the governance around them.
STAGE 08
Operations
Weekly written status, monthly business review, quarterly direction review.
STAGE 09
Scaling
Expand the pod, or transfer it to your own entity on the agreed terms.
The short version
What is a Global Capability Center in India?
A Global Capability Center (GCC) is an organization-owned technology and business operations center established in a strategic location such as India. Modern GCCs increasingly serve as engineering, product development, AI, data, cloud and innovation hubs rather than traditional back-office centers.
What the location gives you
Why build a GCC in India?
Technology talent pool
Deep supply of engineers across software, data and AI disciplines.
AI and data depth
Practitioners who have shipped GenAI, machine learning and vision systems into production.
Cost efficiency
Senior capability at a total cost of ownership your board can plan against.
Ability to scale
Add pods and capabilities without re-opening the hiring plan.
Global delivery
Four hours of overlap with your working day, and 24/7 operations where needed.
Product engineering ecosystem
An established base of product companies, tooling and engineering practice.
Two different things, often confused
GCC vs traditional outsourcing
GCC
- Strategic technology capability
- Long-term engineering ownership
- Dedicated teams
- Product and R&D focus
- Greater organizational control
- Builds institutional knowledge
Traditional outsourcing
- Primarily service delivery
- Vendor-managed delivery
- Shared resources
- Project and service focus
- Greater vendor dependency
- Knowledge often remains vendor-side
That alternative path is BuildOS — the Algorizz GCC model. You get GCC-like engineering capability without immediately investing in a full organizational structure, and you can take it in-house later on terms agreed at the start rather than negotiated when you want to leave.
What we staff and run
Technology capabilities for your India GCC
Answers before the call
Frequently asked questions about GCCs in India
What is a GCC in India?+
An organization-owned technology and operations center in India, run as your capability rather than a vendor's account.
How long does it take to establish a GCC in India?+
A conventional setup runs six to nine months to first commit, with break even typically at month eighteen to twenty four. Through BuildOS the first commit lands inside ten working days, because the organisation already exists.
How much does it cost to set up a GCC in India?+
Beyond salaries, a captive centre carries annual statutory compliance costs of roughly USD 18,000 to 35,000 regardless of headcount, plus entity setup, a resident director, transfer pricing filings, office and hiring. With BuildOS those sit with us.
What services does a GCC provide?+
Engineering, software and product development, AI and data, cloud, IT operations and R&D.
What is the difference between a GCC and an outsourcing company?+
A GCC is your own capability with dedicated teams and retained knowledge. Outsourcing is vendor-managed delivery on shared resources.
Can a company build a GCC without hiring a large internal team?+
Yes. We recruit, train and run the pod, including the leadership layer a small team cannot afford to hire, and you take ownership at the pace that suits you.
What technology capabilities can be built through an India GCC?+
Software and product engineering, GenAI, computer vision, data platforms, cloud and DevOps, UX UI, and application modernization.
What is BuildOS?+
BuildOS is the Algorizz model for building and running a Global Capability Center in India. It provides a full engineering organisation including the leadership layer, in three sizes, with a percentage of our fee at risk against stated commitments. It is a way to run a GCC, not a software product.
How do engagements start?+
With a two week scoped pilot on a real piece of your backlog, at cost. If the work and the working style are right, the pod continues. If not, you have lost two weeks and gained a delivered feature.
Algorizz Technologies, Bengaluru.
Founded by Rajneesh Mittal after 25 years in technology across industries, including CTO and CIO roles at large Indian organisations, Zee Entertainment and the Manipal Group.
"Our engineering comes with a point of view. If we think you are about to make the wrong call, you will hear it from us first."Rajneesh Mittal, Founder and CEO
